housing societies
Do not fall for properties without proper documents and titles. You never know when you might fall into trap! The recent Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Bill, 2011 has caught attention of all these doubtful cases of developers and residential societies. The bill has cited many clauses under which keeping a Government land is count as [...] Continue Reading »
If you are a resident belonging to areas like; Malabar Hill, Marine Drive, Peddar Road or Napeansea Road in Mumbai get ready to bag your chance for availing parking facilities in your locality. The fed up Birhanmmbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now stared providing parking spaces for residents either on rotation basis or through queue [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of housing societies on NIBM Road and Salunkhe Vihar in Pune had to resort to a march to protest the delay in the restoration works by Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) after power supply was disrupted for 24 hours continuously. Disruption in power supply also led to water crisis as the water pumps [...] Continue Reading »
In New Delhi the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee are ahead of examining the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Adarsh housing society scam for misusing housing norms. The officials from the Defence Ministry chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi reported to the parliament about rules not being followed by the state ministers in [...] Continue Reading »
In Mumbai and Ahmadabad single women professionals in the city from now on wards need not face accommodation woes. The city-based property dealer Tulja estate has proposed the concept of a hotel that suits exclusively for working women and students. Women are now freed from messy hostel rooms and also the time restrictions which has been in [...] Continue Reading »
Noida Authority has come to a mandatory conclusion for the builders and the developers to get consent from allottees if the builders want to make changes in their layout plan. Regular complaints concerned unwarranted changes are carried out by the developers in the layout of a housing plan. The Noida Authority has come forward to [...] Continue Reading »
Insurance of buildings has been compulsory since 2001 under the state government byelaws, hardly any housing societies have taken the initiative. Title insurance ensures that the current owners are safe from past claims and title faults, and puts the property firmly in their possession, particularly in case of housing societies. Insurance can also protect against [...] Continue Reading »
The Bharat Nagar slum development project in Bandra-Kurla Complex will see around 23,000 sq metres of land being cleared of hutments in the BKC business district. In its place, multi-storey towers will come up to house around 1,000 slumdwellers. The petition filed by Rafique Sayyed and three others had objected to the slum rehabilitation project [...] Continue Reading »
There are 150 societies in the district of Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida and about 25,000 flat owners. However, only 40% owners in the district have got their properties registered. The societies registered under Indian Societies Registration Act would have to pay 5% duty whereas those societies that are registered under Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Housing Society [...] Continue Reading »
In a judgment that will set a precedent for housing societies on how to treat pets, the Central Mumbai Consumer Redressal Forum has rapped a Mahim society for charging one of its member Rs 500 for each of his two dogs using the elevator. The forum ruled there is no reason why pets can’t use [...] Continue Reading »
