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A new three-storey commercial building on a tree-lined road, empty shops with open roller shutters on the ground floor and glass-fronted offices above, two-wheelers parked along its paved front. Buying guides8 min read दुकान ख़रीदें? पहले ज़ोन देखिए।

Buying a shop or office: zoning, tax, loans and rent

A shop is not a home with a shutter. Check the zone first, then the tax, the tariff, the loan, the GST and the rent sum, before any token.

3 Oct 2026 Apartment blocks and flat-roofed houses on tree-lined roads in the foreground give way, across a dirt road, to open green and brown farm fields stretching to the horizon. Buying guides7 min read विदेश में रहते हैं?

NRI buying property in Indore: what FEMA allows

A flat or a shop, yes; farmland, no. What FEMA lets NRIs and OCIs buy in Indore, how to pay, and how much of the sale money can go back abroad.

3 Oct 2026 A weathered five-storey apartment building with terracotta balconies full of potted plants and drying clothes, a neem tree in front and two-wheelers parked by its gate. Buying guides7 min read पुराना फ़्लैट, नए काग़ज़ — पूरी कड़ी देखिए।

Buying a resale flat: the association, the dues and the papers

A resale flat comes with a share of the building, a chain of deeds and possibly the last owner's dues. What to check, and the one letter that caps them.

3 Oct 2026 A father and grown son sit on a sofa in a bright living room, smiling over a set of papers, while the mother stands behind them looking on. Buying guides8 min read सोसाइटी का प्लॉट — सदस्यता मिली, रजिस्ट्री मिली?

Housing society plots: membership, allotment and registry

A housing society membership is a place in the queue, not a plot. The papers to see, the four red flags, and how a society plot actually becomes yours.

3 Oct 2026 A well-kept two-storey house with a wooden-clad balcony, flowering bougainvillea and a closed slatted gate stands on a quiet, tree-lined colony road. Buying guides8 min read नीलामी की प्रॉपर्टी — सस्ती है, पर साफ़ है?

Buying property at a bank auction

A bank e-auction sells a property 'as is where is'. What that phrase hands to the buyer, how the payment clock runs, and five checks to make before you bid.

3 Oct 2026 Three workers in hard hats tie steel reinforcement bars on an upper-floor slab of a building under construction, the city spread out below them. Buying guides7 min read बन रहा है, या बन चुका है?

Under construction or ready to move: two different products

An under-construction flat is not a discounted ready one. It is a different purchase with a different risk. What to settle before you book either.

3 Oct 2026 A steel measuring tape lies extended across a dusty, unfinished concrete floor in a shaft of sunlight, the bare walls of a room behind it. Buying guides7 min read आप किस एरिया का पैसा दे रहे हैं?

Carpet area, built-up area, super built-up area: only one is defined by law

Three areas, one flat, and you are usually quoted the biggest. What carpet area means in law, and how to work out your real price per usable square foot.

3 Oct 2026 Three workers patch a pothole on a residential street with fresh asphalt and a hand roller, a cart of hot tar steaming beside them and houses with potted plants behind. Buying guides7 min read कॉलोनी की देखभाल कौन करेगा?

Who maintains the colony: roads, water and the handover

Roads, drains and street lights do not stay with the developer forever. Find out who keeps them working after the sale, before you buy into it.

3 Oct 2026 A hazy aerial view of a sprawling colony of half-finished concrete houses, unpaved winding lanes and scrubby empty plots on the edge of a city. Buying guides7 min read अवैध कॉलोनी — और उसे वैध करने से क्या बदलता है।

Unapproved colonies: what the word means, and what regularisation fixes

Unapproved does not mean stolen land. It means three steps were skipped. What regularisation repairs, and the three things it never will.

3 Oct 2026 A man in a sweater reads a laptop screen late at night, with city lights blurred through a rain-spotted window behind him. 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.

8 Sep 2026 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.

8 Sep 2026 Seen from above, a walled empty corner plot sits at the junction of two roads in a half-built colony, houses and trees behind it 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.

8 Sep 2026 Two men sit across a wooden table with a folded paper, a notebook and two steel cups of tea between them 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.

8 Sep 2026 Rainwater pools in the low corner of an overgrown, walled plot after a shower, with tyre ruts in the mud and painted houses under a grey sky behind. 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.

8 Sep 2026 Red-and-white painted wooden pegs joined by taut string mark out a rectangular plot on dry, cracked earth, with a stone wall and a village skyline behind. 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.

8 Sep 2026 A distribution transformer mounted between two concrete poles at the entrance to a walled colony, with a sandy track running in past a neem tree and a long boundary wall. Buying guides8 min read सुविधा है या वादा?

Is the colony serviced? Power, water, sewer

A gate, a road and a wall can be finished years before a working connection. Six questions and one visit after dark tell you what you are really buying.

8 Sep 2026 An empty white hoarding on two rusted steel posts stands over a colony of low houses as the sky turns orange at dusk. Buying guides8 min read इश्तिहार की भाषा

Decoding the advertisement: seven phrases and the question each one hides

Prime location, approved, clear title, loan available — what each pamphlet phrase can honestly mean, and the one question that puts it on paper.

8 Sep 2026 An agent in a pale blue shirt shows something on his phone to an older couple standing on an empty plotted site Buying guides7 min read अच्छा एजेंट सवालों से नहीं डरता

Five questions to ask your real estate agent

Five questions to put to a real estate agent before you pay a token, what a good answer sounds like, and why an agent with good stock enjoys them.

8 Sep 2026 A young couple holding hands on bare ground, looking out over rows of marked plots and a concrete road at sunrise Buying guides9 min read शुरू से क़ब्ज़े तक

From first search to possession: the nine stages and how long each takes

The nine stages of buying a plot in Indore, in the order they belong, and why the token should come fifth, after the record and the ground.

8 Sep 2026 A low block-wall foundation with steel bars rising from it, a stack of red bricks and a mixer beside it, at the edge of a colony at dusk Buying guides8 min read दो रास्ते, एक फ़ैसला

Plot or flat: two products, two checklists

A plot and a flat are different products, not two prices for one thing. What each asks of you, and the five checks that belong to each.

8 Sep 2026 A man in a brown shirt and sandals walks slowly across a bare, rubble-strewn plot beside a concrete kerb, head down, with a half-built house and the city's outskirts behind him. Buying guides8 min read ज़मीन पर जाकर क्या देखें।

The plot site visit: what to check with your feet

Walk all four sides, pace the road, return at another hour, look down and up, ask the neighbours, photograph the markers with the date on. The site visit list.

8 Sep 2026 An aerial view at dusk of a plotted colony on the edge of a city, its grid of empty plots and a scatter of grey concrete houses laid out between farm fields, with a lit highway and the city's lights beyond. Buying guides8 min read एक रात का होटल — सैकड़ों विकल्प। ज़िंदगी भर की ज़मीन — पाँच।

You get more choice booking a hotel than buying land

Hundreds of hotels for one night, fifty restaurants for dinner, five or ten colonies for the plot you keep for life. How to see the whole market first.

8 Sep 2026 A whitewashed boundary stone stands at the corner of a bare, cracked plot beside a fresh concrete kerb and an unmade road, with brick houses under construction and open fields behind. Buying guides8 min read प्लॉट लेने से पहले, ये आठ सवाल ज़रूर पूछिए।

The eight questions every plot buyer in Indore asks, and where each answer sits

Registration, khasra, zoning, proposed roads, the sanctioned layout, building limits, plot position and promoter: eight questions and where each answer sits.

8 Sep 2026

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