Housing Society
Fine has been imposed on a housing society in Mumbai for charging monthly maintenance fee of Rs 500 for taking their dog along in the lift. The fine has been imposed by state consumer commission which dismissed the appeal filed by the housing society. The society has been asked to pay Rs 5,000 as damage [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab Cooperative Department’s 2013 decision to suspend a group housing society, which proposed to develop a residential complex in Mullanpur near Chandigarh, continues to spell uncertainty for the more than 270 members who had planned to build their houses at the complex. With regard to the suspension of the society in January last year, the [...] Continue Reading »
In order to become owners of the land on which the buildings are constructed, residents are claiming to get deemed transportation as alleged by a senior civic official. Supreme Court (SC) has given four weeks to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to consider the residents’ plea for regularisation for the relief of the unauthorised flats [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now planned to seek suggestions and objections for wastewater recycling in the city. The bylaws of wastewater recycling which was made three years ago for new properties in Mumbai was not taken seriously then. Now, the civic body want to make the recycling process mandatory and plans to ask for [...] Continue Reading »
Ghaziabad- A police complaint was filed by the residents of an upscale housing society in Ahimsa Khand-II of Indirapuram, stating that Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) and the developer was negligent regarding the appropriate fire safety measures in their society. The complaint was filed by the RWA residents when a fire broke out in the fifth floor of [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Mobile operators may need approvals from 70 percent residents of a housing society to set up a cellphone tower. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to make it compulsory for an operator to get permission from 70% residents of that housing society on which a mobile tower is proposed. The draft from the [...] Continue Reading »
Distracted with legal battles, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has lost 108.94 acres out of its 2,750 acres to Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)?Employees’ House Building Co-operative Society (HBCS) at several villages in north Bangalore. The land was taken for formation of Arkavathy Layout. Now, the civic body has laid claim to 1,200 acres, albeit with [...] Continue Reading »
A lot of buyers find themselves in a fix before buying a flat because the developer does not hand over the project to the tenants despite its completion. Many factors can be behind this – there might not be a registered housing society, developer may not have received the occupancy certificate (OC) from the civic [...] Continue Reading »
The employees of defense public sector unit BEML have created housing co-operative in Karnataka. The top management of the housing society are now under the CBI scanner for alleged irregularities in the purchase of Tata trucks, has been accused of allotting as many as 63 residential sites in violation of housing co-operative rules in 10 [...] Continue Reading »
The private equity fund of IIFL has planned to invest in a central Mumbai slum redevelopment project. The PE fund, IIFL Real Estate Fund has committed to invest Rs 80 crore in a housing society-cum-slum-redevelopment project in Mumbai’s Sion Koliwada area. The redevelopment project will construct about 1.2 million sq ft sale able space. The [...] Continue Reading »
