DCR
The Bombay high court have granted stay of execution to an under-construction high-rise at Worli Seaface, the Sea Green housing society that had come under the scanner over alleged Adarsh-like violations for not obtaining CRZ approval and consuming extra FSI. In an interim order last week a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally managed to recover Rs 8 crore of a total due amount of Rs 628 crore from the developers in Mumbai. After the modification of the fee structure to recover dues, the civic body is yet to recover Rs 71 crore, while the remaining Rs 549 crore will be collected [...] Continue Reading »
Developers from small cities are eying on the real estate sector of Mumbai. Mumbai real estate has been rising in recent times, though it is known as one of the toughest property markets owing to difficult building regulations, shortage of land and high prices. Builders from Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore are entering into Mumbai real [...] Continue Reading »
The housing prices in Mumbai city is expected to slow down by 15 per cent in the coming days. The change in development control rules (DCR) and also due to inventory with developers the price drop has been predicted! The new DCR had asked the developers to pay premium for additional development rights! However, the [...] Continue Reading »
Happy go news for the citizens and property buyers in Mumbai! The amendments in Development Control Regulations (DCR) followed up by huge number of residential and commercial property launches have commenced showing the signs of property rates fall! Some of the real estate experts have predicted property rate fall by 10 and 30 per cent [...] Continue Reading »
Maharashtra government has announced changes in the Development Control Rules (DCR) for the Dharavi slum redevelopment ahead of Mumbai civic polls. The redevelopment plan of Dharavi was approved in 2004 with an aim to develop roads, toilets, gardens and basic amenities in the area. After the redevelopment, standard of living can be improved and around [...] Continue Reading »
There is nothing called extra FSI concept if it is not not given to the buyers for their use. It is the builders who in the name of extra FSI misuse it by including the free spaces as super built up areas. The free spaces include parking areas, balcony spaces and flower beds. Due to [...] Continue Reading »
Subodh Kumar’s new Development Control Rules (DCR) proposals will allow developers to build an extra 25% above the sanctioned FSI in a residential project, for which they will be charged 100% premium. For commercial buildings, the BMC will allow 15% additional built-up area and charge a similarly hefty premium. In a joint statement issued exclusively [...] Continue Reading »
In the early days, buildings were sold by carpet areas. In the 1960s, buildings began to be sold by built-up area (BUA), which includes walls and some passages, but excludes lifts, staircases, common passages, flowerbeds and other non-living spaces. The built-up area counted in the floor space index (FSI) was between 10% and 20% more [...] Continue Reading »
Corporators say that the change in the development control rules (DCR) and plan to do away with the civic chief’s discretionary powers and bring lift spaces, flower beds, ducts, upper-level car parking, voids and so on, under chargeable FSI, will hurt the common man. While the builders are angry that the BMC has decided to [...] Continue Reading »
