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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
A road roller and a yellow excavator work on a new lane beside a busy four-lane highway, orange and white barriers between them, flat farmland beyond. Indore7 min read सिंहस्थ की सड़क — किस सड़क की बात हो रही है?

The 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 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
An aerial view of a half-built colony beside a highway, finished grey houses on one side, walled empty plots on the other and a small stream winding past its edge. Maps & plans7 min read ऊपर से देखिए।

Your plot from above: what a satellite image tells you, and what it cannot

A satellite view shows roads, neighbours and where water collects. It cannot show your boundary, your plot number, the owner or the zone.

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 small single-room house with a wooden door, potted plants and a red scooter stands on a walled plot between two larger houses. Papers & law8 min read क़ब्ज़ा मालिकाना हक़ नहीं है।

Possession is not ownership

The owner on paper and the person on the plot can be two different people. How to find out who holds the land you are buying, and why it matters.

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 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 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
A man's hands hold a triangular scale rule across a printed layout plan of numbered plots on a wooden desk. 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.

8 Sep 2026
A man in a blue shirt walks along the footpath of an established colony at dusk, street lamps lit above him and a small park behind 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.

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
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
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
A yellow measuring tape hooked to the foot of a rough concrete boundary wall and run out along the ground of an empty plot. Papers & law8 min read सरहद का झगड़ा।

How boundary disputes start, and the cheap half of avoiding them

Boundary disputes begin as a few feet nobody measured. The six ways a line goes wrong, and the five cheap things to do before you build.

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 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

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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