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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
An empty flat with white walls and a glossy beige tiled floor, morning sun falling through a barred window, a ring of brass keys hanging from the window sill. Papers & law8 min read किराएदार रखने से पहले — काग़ज़, पुलिस, पैसा।

Renting out your house: agreement, registration, tenant verification

Letting a flat in Indore? The agreement, when registration becomes compulsory, telling the police station, the deposit, and closing it all on paper.

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 single-storey house with potted plants at its gate sits on a street corner under a large neem tree, with four-storey apartment buildings on either side. Money8 min read ज़मीन आपकी, बिल्डिंग उनकी — हिस्सा पक्का कीजिए।

Joint development: giving your land to a builder for a share of flats

Giving your plot or old house to a builder for flats? How to fix the share, the six clauses the agreement must carry, and when the capital gains tax is due.

3 Oct 2026
An empty plot marked out with wooden stakes, string and orange flags, a rolled-out house drawing weighed down by bricks in the foreground and finished houses behind in low evening sun. Maps & plans8 min read नक्शा पास कराए बिना नींव मत डालिए।

Building permission: getting the city's approval to build your house

Owning a plot in Indore does not let you build on it. How building permission works on ABPAS, what goes in the file, the fees, and the clock.

3 Oct 2026
From a first-floor balcony with potted plants and a blue railing, a metro train passes on an elevated viaduct above a busy street at dusk. Indore8 min read मेट्रो पास है — पर कितनी पास?

Buying near an Indore Metro station: what the line changes

About 17 km of Indore's metro is open. Before you pay for "metro-facing", measure the walk, check the stretch, and know what the station does not change.

3 Oct 2026
A man holding a thick cardboard folder of papers under his arm stands with his back to the camera, looking across dry open ground toward high-voltage transmission towers. Maps & plans7 min read यहाँ नहीं।

Where you cannot build: four kinds of land you can own and never build on

Clean title, paid in full, and still no permission to build. The four lines on the plan that a title search never shows, and how to find them first.

3 Oct 2026
A man at a desk by an open window works on a laptop showing a coloured zoning map, with a printed land-use plan, a wooden scale and a pencil beside him. 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.

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
A blank white hoarding on two rusted steel posts stands over a dry, walled plot beside a highway on the edge of a city 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.

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
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 aerial view of patchwork farmland on the left meeting a grid of new dirt roads, half-built apartment blocks and the city spreading to the horizon on the right. 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.

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 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
A freshly laid grid of tarmac roads with white kerbs and boundary stones marking empty plots, three brick houses under construction behind them and farmland beyond, seen from above in late-afternoon light. Maps & plans7 min read ज़मीन से जुड़े हर सवाल का जवाब, 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.

8 Sep 2026

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

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