Tagged “rera”
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 2026The price sheet: reading a builder's cost sheet line by line
The rate you were quoted is one line of a builder's cost sheet. What the other lines are, which are already in the price, and what to ask before a token.
3 Oct 2026GST on a flat: under construction versus ready
Booked while being built, a flat carries 5% GST, or 1% if it is affordable. Paid for wholly after the completion certificate, none. How the rule works.
3 Oct 2026Joint 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 2026How to file a RERA complaint in Madhya Pradesh
Form M or Form N, ₹1,000, and a folder in date order. How a complaint to MP RERA works, what to ask for, and what it cannot do for you.
3 Oct 2026The Indore-Ujjain road and Simhastha 2028: testing a corridor pitch
"On the Simhastha road" can mean a widening, a new greenfield road, a metro still on paper, or a rumour. How to tell which, and what to ask.
3 Oct 2026Under 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 2026Carpet 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 2026Occupancy certificate and completion certificate: two papers, two jobs
A completion certificate says the building matches its plan. An occupancy certificate says you may live in it. Ask for both before you take the keys.
3 Oct 2026Who 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 2026Six 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.
8 Sep 2026Five 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 2026How 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.
8 Sep 2026What 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.
8 Sep 2026Five 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 2026Plot 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 2026Read 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.