Sion
Whilst the India’s first double-decker flyover— Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) — has started providing much-needed east-west connectivity, experts suggest that around the stretch the real estate market is most likely to go up, which is being seen as a good sign. There has already been a jump of close to 25 per cent in [...] Continue Reading »
The protests by the residents of a housing society in Chunabhatti, Sion in Mumbai have been falling on deaf ears as their builder has been garnering the rent against two mobile towers on their building without fail. The rent is being paid by the service providers for the towers to the builder for the towers [...] 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 »
BMC has admitted that it did not act upon the illegal activities that were going on in a residential building in Sion. In a recent response to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, it came into light that the civic body has not taken any action against an unlicensed residential building in [...] Continue Reading »
To bring in a relief to a buyer in Mumbai, after a span of 7 years, he might finally get the possession of his flat booked in Sion in 2005. The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed the builder of the flat in Sion to either give possession of the 712 sq ft [...] Continue Reading »
The online property registrations were severely affected due to a server crash at the sub-registrar’s office in Chembur, Mumbai. The areas include Kurla, Powai, Sion, eastern and central suburbs. Officials said that the server was suffering from technical issues from the past week and that there were efforts being put to restore it. The daily [...] Continue Reading »
While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been forwarding many innovative ideas to solve the water crisis like desalination, cloud seeding and water recycling, none of these plans have been materialized. Under these circumstances, few housing societies have helped themselves through rainwater harvesting to solve the problem. The Raheja Vihar Rainbow society in Powai and Avanti [...] Continue Reading »
An empty four-storey building collapsed following a heavy rainfall in Mumbai. The building Gopal Bhavan, is situated in Mamlatdar Wadi in suburban Malad. Luckily, there were none living in the apartment as the residents had already been evacuated following the declaration of the structure as ‘dangerous‘ by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Sources say that five [...] Continue Reading »
In the first two quarters of 2012, Mumbai, India’s financial capital has been witnessing a downward trend in property sales’ front. Even purchase and buying activity is not going good either. From January- May 2012, experts have said that people are looking for a more subtle way like fixed monthly lease rent than buying a [...] Continue Reading »
A ward in Mumbai is far from all the basic amenities and issues are falling on deaf ears! F North Ward, a ward of apartments and slums has been dealing with civic problems and the civic body is yet to act. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been updated with the ward’s improper garbage collection and [...] Continue Reading »
