DDA to maintain the flats after their allotment
DDA realized its responsibility for the maintenance of the flats, will other builders too rise to the occasion and provide the much needed after-sale service to their clients?
For the first time, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will now provide maintenance of the flats that are part of its latest housing scheme for the next 30 years. A large number of the nearly 16,000 flats that are part of the new housing scheme will enjoy DDA’s healing touch. The allottees, however, will have to pay a one-time lump sum amount for the maintenance.
The DDA has decided to maintain the flats that are part of its latest housing schemes after their allotment. DDA will maintain the usually neglected common areas like staircases and shafts of the flats that it will allot. The cost of the houses in the new scheme will now include the cost of maintenance. Allottees of flats with lifts will have to pay 15% of the total amount as one-time maintenance and allottees of flats in up to fivestorey buildings will pay 12%.
It is no secret that residential and commercial buildings that look good and impressive are maintained by dedicated maintenance teams. Understandably, maintaining a complex not only includes housekeeping and round-the-clock emergency services, it also includes beautification and care of gardens and common areas, security, to name a few.
Realty market watchers say that maintenance is the key to the upkeep of a residential complex. The going rate is around Rs 1 to Rs 1.50 per sq ft for a normal residential complex with facilities like lifts, swimming pool and power backup. But complexes with a golf courses, etc, will have a higher rate, around Rs 3 per sq ft. Paying a high maintenance of Rs 2 per sq ft, is not practical for a buyer of affordable home in the range of Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, as he has to budget for the EMI and doesn’t expect high monthly maintenance cost. There is a clear-cut consensus among realty experts that any property, howsoever magnificently built, will deteriorate and lose its grandeur if it is not maintained with the requisite expertise.
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