Clear thinking on RERA & real estate.
Practical reading for promoters, societies and buyers — written by the people who file the paperwork and argue the cases.
Arbitration clauses in development agreements: when they help, when they trap
A clause copied from a template decides your forum, your timeline and your costs years before the dispute arrives. Most are drafted on autopilot.
An agent's records and advertisements: what MahaRERA expects to see
Registration is the beginning. The obligations that follow are the ones agents are actually penalised for missing.
Registering a project with MahaRERA: the document set that avoids a query
Most registration delays are not rejections — they are queries against an incomplete file. Here is the bundle that goes in clean the first time.
Contract labour on site: who answers as principal employer
Engaging workers through a contractor does not move the liability as far as most developers assume.
Redevelopment agreements: what society members should read before signing
Corpus, carpet area, rent and timelines are the four numbers that decide a redevelopment. The clauses around them decide whether you can enforce them.
Section 7 by allottees: meeting the 100-or-10% threshold
The IBC door opened to homebuyers, then narrowed. Assembling the numbers is now the first and hardest part of the petition.
Forged documents in a title chain: the FIR and the civil suit that must run beside it
A criminal complaint punishes the forgery. It does not clear your title — only the civil court can do that, and it will not wait.
The 2026 MahaRERA QPR calendar every promoter needs
Quarterly Progress Reports are where good projects quietly slip into default. Here is the year-round calendar — and the disclosures that trip promoters up most.
The Section 138 notice: the clock that decides whether your complaint survives
Cheque bounce cases fail on dates far more often than on merits. Four deadlines run back to back, and missing one ends the case.
MahaRERA or consumer forum? Choosing where to take a possession claim
Both forums can hear a delayed-possession complaint. They differ on relief, speed and cost — and the choice is harder to undo than it looks.
Challenging an arbitral award: the narrow door under Section 34
A Section 34 petition is not an appeal. Knowing the difference is what separates a challenge worth filing from an expensive delay.
Joint development agreements: the clauses that decide who carries the risk
A JDA allocates land, money and blame. Most disputes trace back to four clauses that were drafted as boilerplate and read as an afterthought.
Ending an employment cleanly: notice, dues and the file that decides the dispute
Termination disputes are won and lost on documents created months earlier — not on the letter that ends the relationship.
Deemed conveyance: how societies claim land when the developer won't
If your developer has withheld conveyance, the law gives your society a route to the land title without them. A step-by-step guide to deemed conveyance.
Brokerage disputes: when an agent can sue for commission
The commission is usually agreed on a phone call and denied in writing. What survives is whatever the agent wrote down at the time.
Form 5 and the project account: what the annual RERA audit really tests
The 70% rule is simple to state and easy to breach. The annual audit is where withdrawals meet the construction actually certified as complete.
Family settlements and ancestral property: what a registered deed prevents
An oral understanding holds until the first sale, the first loan or the first death. Then it is one family's memory against another's.
Pre-institution mediation: the step you cannot skip in a commercial suit
Filing a commercial suit without it — and without a genuine claim to urgent relief — invites rejection at the threshold.
Carpet area vs built-up: what allottees are actually paying for
RERA fixed the definition of carpet area for a reason. Here is how to read your agreement — and what to do when the numbers don't add up.
Anticipatory bail in a property FIR: what the court actually weighs
Most property FIRs are a commercial dispute wearing criminal clothes. Saying so persuasively, and early, is the whole application.
Specific performance: when a court will order the sale to complete
Damages are not always enough. Where the property itself is the point, specific performance can compel the sale — if you moved in time and came with clean hands.
Interim compensation under Section 143A: getting paid before the judgment
A cheque bounce trial can outlast the debt it is about. Section 143A exists so the complainant is not funding the delay.
Homebuyers as financial creditors: what the IBC route does and doesn't get you
Insolvency gives allottees a seat at the table — and a threshold to clear first. When the IBC helps a stalled project, and when it freezes it.
POSH for a small office: the committee, the timeline and the annual return
Ten employees is the line. Below it the duty is lighter; above it, an unconstituted committee is itself the violation.
Extending a RERA registration: grounds, process and pitfalls
Timelines slip. When they do, an extension can protect your project — if it is sought correctly. The grounds that hold, and the ones that don't.
Your project is in CIRP: what happens to your booking, your money and your possession
The moratorium stops your RERA case mid-stride. Here is where your claim goes instead, and what it is worth when it gets there.
Phasing a project under RERA: registering by phase, not by tower
Phasing buys a promoter room to sequence delivery. Structured carelessly, it splits obligations in ways that surface years later at the tribunal.
Residence orders: the roof that maintenance alone does not provide
Maintenance is money. A residence order is the house — and in a city like Mumbai, that is usually the larger question.
When a property dispute turns criminal: cheating, forgery and the limits of an FIR
Not every broken promise is an offence. Knowing where a civil dispute ends and a criminal one begins keeps a complaint from being quashed.
Section 138 cheque bounce: the fast-track recovery playbook
From statutory notice to complaint to settlement — the sequence that turns a dishonoured cheque into an enforceable recovery.
Delayed possession: interest, rent or refund — what can you actually claim?
RERA gives an allottee a choice: stay in the project and claim interest, or walk away with a refund. The choice is yours, and it is consequential.
The matrimonial home: where family law and property law collide
Who owns it, who may reside in it, and who can sell it are three different questions. Separation is when families discover they are not the same.
Buying under construction? A 9-point RERA due-diligence checklist
Before you sign, run these nine checks on the MahaRERA portal and the agreement. Fifteen minutes now can save years of litigation.
Five disclosures on your MahaRERA page that buyers actually read
The project page is public, permanent and increasingly the first thing a serious buyer opens. These five fields shape the impression it leaves.
You won the order. Now enforce it: recovery as arrears of land revenue
An unenforced order is paper. The recovery warrant route treats the amount as arrears of land revenue — and that changes the conversation.
Stamp duty on conveyance: what a society should budget for
The order is the milestone; registration is the finish line. What societies pay, what they can claim relief on, and where budgets usually fall short.
Do real-estate agents need RERA registration? Duties, renewals and penalties
Facilitating the sale of a registered project without registration is an offence. What an agent must hold, display, record — and renew.
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