The Supreme Court has ruled that builders/promoters cannot sell parking areas as independent units or flats as the same is to be extended as “common areas and facilities” for the owners. A bench of Justices R M Lodha and A K Patnaik in a judgment rejected the argument of a real estate development company that [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2010
Gurgaon to Centra Delhi in 48 minutes flat. The dream will finally come true at 3 p.m. on September 3 after Delhi Metro starts operation on its Central Secretariat Qutub Minar stretch. Currently, the line is only partially open -from Gurgaon’s HUDA City Centre to Qutub Minar in South Delhi. For the first time, the Metro will cut [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2010
Given the risks and money involved in buying and selling property in India, NRIs and PIOs must refer to the RBI’s guidelines from time to time The real estate sector in India is becoming an increasingly attractive option for investments promising good returns, for both Indians and NRIs. Given the money/risks involved, the importance of making [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2010
ASHISH GUPTA outlines some legal conditions to enter into this agreement Joint development is a popular method of development of property. Here, an owner of a site and a developer come together to enter into an arrangement to develop a property jointly. In case the owner of a site decides to develop the property on his [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2010
YOUTH DEATH Criminal negligence case lodged after father of victim complains A case of criminal negligence has been filed against officials of DLF and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in the DLF City police station on Sunday on the basis of a complaint by the father of the victim. Meanwhile, in the wake of mounting public anger [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2010
India has won a seven-year legal battle with New York City with a federal appeals court ruling that nations with diplomatic housing do not have to pay city property taxes. The unanimous ruling by the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan Tuesday lets India off the hook for $42.5 million in back taxes [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2010
Where an immovable gift consists of the donor’s entire property, the donee will become personally liable for all of the donor’s debts and liabilities, which exist when the gift (the donor’s property) is given to the donee There are numerous modes through which an individual can transfer his immoveable property to another, such as by sale, [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2010
Those aspiring to buy farmhouses in Delhi would do well to go through the Master Plan Delhi 2021 thoroughly to ensure they don’t get duped into ER UNA picking up properties in the `unauthorized’ zones, advises Vandana Ramnani Forty-year-old Shiv Mohan is a Delhi-born Bangalore-based corporate executive who recently cashed the ESOPS allotted to him by [...]
Continue reading...7. August 2010
A Vile Parle resident who paid for a 800 sq ft house in Malad but actually got only a 682.50 sq ft flat has finally got a reason to smile. The consumer forum in an order passed this week ordered the secretary of the housing society to pay him Rs 1.13 lakh (deficit amount) along with [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2010
Realty major Unitech today said it has offered to acquire London-listed Unitech Corporate Parks through an all cash deal worth nearly Rs 700 crore, which is 22 per cent more than the current market valuation. UCP, which was formed in late 2006 by Unitech, among others, to invest in Indian commercial real estate, had raised 360 [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2010
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh, has directed M/s Castle Concrete Infrastructure Pvt Ltd to pay a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each of the three complainants for suffering mental agony as the company did not construct flats in time and also did not refund the deposited amount. The company has also been directed [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2010
NO INTERIM RELIEF HC rules it is difficult to consider a woman’s matrimonial home as shared household if it is not owned by the husband Ahouse owned by a woman’s in-laws cannot be considered a“shared household” the Bombay High Court has ruled. The highcourt recently stayedanorder ofamagistrate court reserving a bedroom for a woman,who had left her [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2010
How appropriate it is for the co-operative housing societies to levy extra charges on new buyers before inducting them as members? When a buyer acquires residential property in a cooperative housing society (`society’) through the instruments of either Power of Attorney or Agreement for Sale from its original allotee, he has the right to become a [...]
Continue reading...22. July 2010
SC ORDER Tenant has to vacate 550 sq ft home in 6 months Thirty-seven years after his father filed a caseto get his ancestral property vacated, Dilip Kale finally wonbackthe Dadar house on Wednesday within six minutes. The Supreme Court’s bench of Justice Markandeya Katju andJ ustice T.S.Thakurordered Kale’s tenant to vacate the 550 sq ft flat [...]
Continue reading...20. July 2010
Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has been directed to transfer the dwelling unit and to pay to the complainant interest at 17 per cent per annum on Rs 1, 56,551 for the period it had kept the money on Monday. It has also been ordered to pay Rs 50, 000 as compensation and Rs 5, 500 [...]
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2. September 2010
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