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Guides to buying land in Indore — the paperwork, the money, the maps, and the questions to ask before the family says yes. Written so you can check every claim yourself.

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Money7 min read ज़मीन एक। सवाल अलग-अलग।

Buying to live vs buying to invest

A home and an investment are different purchases of the same land. Five questions where the answers pull apart, and the one record both of them begin on.

14 posts

Buying guides

खरीदने से पहले

Checklists, site visits, the questions to ask and the distinctions that matter before money moves.

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Buying guides9 min read ज़मीन इंदौर में। आप कहीं और।

Buying a plot in Indore when you live somewhere else

What you can verify about an Indore plot from Pune or Dubai, what only feet on the ground can tell you, and why the money always moves last.

Two tall concrete gate pillars and a fresh boundary wall enclose an empty plotted field at sunrise, a few staked saplings inside and the city faint on the horizon.

Buying guides7 min read ज़मीन ख़रीदने से पहले

Five checks before you buy land in Indore, each with its red flag

Five two-minute checks on any plot in Indore — registration, khasra, zone, proposed roads, sanctioned plan — and the red flag hiding inside each one.

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Buying guides8 min read कोना और दिशा

Corner plot, east-facing: what actually changes

A corner gives you two open sides and a bill for them; a facing decides where the sun and the gate go. What is measurable, what is preference, what matters.

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Buying guides9 min read दो सौदे, एक ज़मीन

Buying from a developer vs an individual owner

A developer sells you a project and a promise; an owner sells you one parcel and its paper trail. The questions for each, and the three that never change.

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Buying guides7 min read पानी और ज़मीन

Water, drainage and the plot you are about to buy

Land is bought in April and lived on in August. The slope, the fill, the drain, the supply and the zone — six checks a dry-season site visit misses.

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Buying guides8 min read नाप-तौल

Plot sizes and units: square feet, square metres, bigha and hectare

1,500 sq ft, 139.4 sq m, 166.7 gaj and 'one bigha' can all describe the same plot. How to put two plots in one unit before you compare a price.

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Papers & law

कागज़ और कानून

RERA, the registry, diversion, encumbrance, mutation and the deed — what each paper proves and what it does not.

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Papers & law8 min read नाम किसके?

Whose name goes on the sale deed

Who paid and whose name is on the deed are two different questions. What the choice changes, and why to settle it at home, weeks early, not at the desk.

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Papers & law8 min read एक दिन — और ज़िंदगी भर का काग़ज़।

Registry day: what happens, and mutation afterwards

Stamp duty, the four-month clock, Aadhaar at the counter, e-registration from home, and why a registered deed still leaves mutation to be done.

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Papers & law7 min read टोकन देने से पहले

The token: the agreement that comes before the sale deed

The token is the first money you pay and the moment you have least on paper. Six things to put in the agreement to sell before it moves.

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Papers & law7 min read काग़ज़ पूरे हैं?

The five documents that decide whether land is safe

The land is usually fine; the paper decides. The five documents that separate a plot you can build on from one you can only argue about, and how to read each.

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Papers & law9 min read ज़मीन देख ली — बनाने वाले को देखा?

How to verify a developer in Indore

A clean plot from a developer who does not finish is still a problem. An afternoon in a colony they completed, five things to look at, what they must prove.

A bare concrete frame of a five-storey building, half clad in brick and wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, stands over a wet street of auto-rickshaws under a grey sky.

Papers & law7 min read रजिस्टर्ड है — पर किसका?

What RERA does, and what it does not

Who must register with MP RERA, what an agent's number means, and the four checks a registration does not replace: title, ownership, coverage and sanction.

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Money

पैसा

What a plot really costs, stamp duty and guideline rates, loans, and the difference between living and investing.

Aerial view at dusk of a grid of unpaved roads laid across empty plotted land, with a city skyline on the horizon.

Money7 min read ज़मीन एक। सवाल अलग-अलग।

Buying to live vs buying to invest

A home and an investment are different purchases of the same land. Five questions where the answers pull apart, and the one record both of them begin on.

A two-storey brick house under construction on open ground, wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, with a heap of sand, a cement mixer and a stack of red bricks in front of it.

Money8 min read प्लॉट पर लोन

Plot loans are not home loans

Less of the value funded, fewer years, sometimes a deadline to build, a tax break that waits — and a bank that checks the ground before it checks you.

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Money7 min read बेचते वक़्त

The questions your own buyer will ask you, asked now

One day you are the seller, and every gap in your file becomes a discount. The five things to get in order years before you list a plot.

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Money7 min read सौदा बनाम ख़र्च

The price is not the cost: stamp duty, guideline rate and the real total

On a ₹50 lakh plot you pay ₹55.25 lakh before a brick is laid. How stamp duty and the guideline rate work in Madhya Pradesh, and the four costs that come after.

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Maps & plans

नक्शे और प्लान

Reading a sanctioned layout, the master plan, promised versus sanctioned, and how the register itself was built.

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Maps & plans7 min read मास्टर प्लान पोर्टल कैसे इस्तेमाल करें।

How to use the Master Plan Portal, in five steps

Find your land on the development plan, read its zone off the colour, spot roads not yet built, find the building rules, and lay your colony on top.

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Maps & plans8 min read ये रजिस्टर कैसे बना

How the Indori Zameen register was built

How the boundaries on the Indori Zameen map were placed and checked, who did the work, and why an unplaceable colony is left unmapped.

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Maps & plans8 min read नक्शा पढ़ना सीखिए।

How to read a sanctioned layout plan

Plot numbers, road widths, open space, the reserved series and boundary lengths: how to read each one off a sanctioned layout plan before you pay.

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Maps & plans7 min read वादा अलग चीज़ है। नक्शा अलग।

Promised vs sanctioned: the brochure and the layout plan

Why a brochure binds nobody and a sanctioned layout does, what reserved land looks like on the sheet, and the one question to ask when the amenity is not on it.

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Maps & plans7 min read ज़मीन का हर सवाल, एक ही जगह।

What Indori Zameen is, and how to use it

Indore's registered colonies on one map, each with its boundary, sanctioned layout, zoning and papers: what is there, what is not, how to read one fast.

4 posts

Indore

इंदौर

The city: Master Plan 2035, the metro, municipal limits, judging a location, and the things everyone repeats.

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Indore8 min read नगर निगम के अंदर या बाहर?

Inside or outside municipal limits: gram panchayat or IMC

Inside IMC or in a gram panchayat: who sanctions the colony, who lets you build, who owns the pipe and who sends the bill, and how to find out before you pay.

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Indore8 min read सुना है

Six things everyone in Indore says about land that are not true

Registry done, RERA number, notary, boundary wall, divert later, the neighbour built — six things said in good faith, and what the record says instead.

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Indore7 min read ब्रोशर नहीं, शहर पढ़िए।

Read the city, not the brochure: judging a location yourself

Zone, roads, distance, neighbours, register: five reads that tell you what a location in Indore already is, without a single phone call.

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Indore7 min read इंदौर का नक्शा बदल रहा है।

Indore is being redrawn: Master Plan 2035, the metro and the metropolitan region

A new master plan, a metro ring partly open, and a law that plans Indore as a region: what each changes for a plot, and where to check your own land.

Read it. Then check it on the map.

Every colony's boundary, its approved layout, its zoning and its paperwork — on one screen. Signing in is free.

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