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A practical guide for buyers and lenders dealing with Bengaluru buildings that claim extra built-up area under Premium FAR. It explains what the Supreme Court’s interim order changes, what it does not decide, and which records should settle the risk before money is released.
Read guideA pending court case does not stop a sale from being registered, but lis pendens under Section 52 TPA binds the buyer to the result, stay order or not.
Read guideThis guide explains how to handle name mismatches across sale deeds, revenue records, tax receipts and identity documents before buying property in India. It tells buyers and lenders which record settles the issue, when an affidavit is enough, and when the mismatch is a title defect.
Read guideFor a home loan the bank acts on its own empanelled advocate, not your lawyer's report. Here is why, whether it is law or policy, and how to avoid paying twice.
Read guideYour sale agreement doesn't quietly expire and leave you with nothing. Specific performance is now the rule, not a favour, and the limitation clock starts when the seller refuses, not when you signed.
Read guideA bank or SARFAESI auction clears the borrower's loan but not the dues on the property. See which previous dues (tax, electricity, society) follow the buyer.
Read guideSince 2020, non-farmers can buy agricultural land in Karnataka, but cannot build on it until it is NA-converted under Section 95. How to check before you pay.
Read guideThe seller inherited through a will and has no probate. Since the 2025 repeal you no longer need it, but here is why that is still not the same as a safe title.
Read guideThe builder wants the balance but the flat has no Occupancy Certificate. A 2026 Supreme Court ruling says you cannot be forced to take possession without it.
Read guideGrandfather split the property among his sons but never registered a partition deed. Can they legally sell it now, and is that title safe to buy?
Read guideRERA registration is the builder's own sworn declaration of title, not proof of it. A RERA-registered flat can still sit on litigated land. Here is how to check.
Read guideA clean title and EC do not show if a plot sits in a lake's FTL or buffer zone. Here is how to check it officially in Hyderabad and Bengaluru before you buy.
Read guideKaveri's instant EC covers only records from 1 April 2004. Here is how to check pre-2004 encumbrances in Bangalore, and why silence before 2004 is a trap.
Read guideA seller's brother who claims a share is a title defect, not bad luck. When the seller can't give clean title, your token advance is usually recoverable.
Read guideAn old, uncancelled mortgage still on your EC is not proof the loan is live, nor that it is cleared. How to tell which, and how to clear it before you pay.
Read guideSeeing original property documents only at registration is normal in India, not a red flag. The real risk is your advance. Here is how to protect it before you pay.
Read guideA property tax receipt proves someone paid tax and likely holds possession. It is not proof of title, which flows only from the registered deed chain.
Read guideTwo banks gave two different legal opinions on the same flat, one clear, one not. Here is how to tell which title opinion to trust before you pick a lender.
Read guideBank rejected your home loan after the legal opinion and won't explain why? Here is how to demand the reason and find the exact title defect yourself.
Read guideThe survey number on your sale deed doesn't match the khata. Here is how to tell a harmless clerical error from a fatal wrong-parcel defect before you pay.
Read guideA photocopy of the mother deed is not always a red flag, but you must know why the original is missing before you pay advance. Here is the exact title check.
Read guideClosed your home loan but the EC still shows the bank? You don't re-register — you discharge the charge: reconveyance deed, CERSAI, and RBI's 30-day rule.
Read guideEvery major Supreme Court ruling on Article 300A and government land — compensation without formal acquisition, the seven-part test for a valid acquisition, lapse claims, ULC vesting, and unsettled forest/Aravalli status.
Read guideEvery Supreme Court ruling that governs a bank-auction property title in India — redemption cut-offs, sale certificate registration, stamp duty, inherited dues, and the one priority question still unresolved.
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Expert articles on property due diligence, title verification, and real estate law in India.
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Expert articles on property due diligence, title verification, and real estate law in India.
Every major Supreme Court ruling on Article 300A and government land — compensation without formal acquisition, the seven-part test for a valid acquisition, lapse claims, ULC vesting, and unsettled forest/Aravalli status.
Read guideEvery Supreme Court ruling that governs a bank-auction property title in India — redemption cut-offs, sale certificate registration, stamp duty, inherited dues, and the one priority question still unresolved.
Read guideEvery Supreme Court ruling on whose consent a property sale actually needs — daughters' coparcenary rights, co-owner sales, tribal carve-outs, and the pending case that could still change the rules.
Read guideA registered, decades-old family property deal isn't automatically safe. Six Supreme Court rulings show how a guardian's minor-property sale, an elder's gift, or an oral family gift can still be unwound.
Read guideFrom offensive claims to tenant limits, government land, and co-owner disputes — a plain-language guide to every major Supreme Court ruling on adverse possession in India since 2019.
Read guideTwelve Supreme Court rulings in a single year reshaped registration, GPA sales, minors' property, gift deeds, tenant possession, and waqf status. A theme-by-theme survey of 2025's biggest property-law wave, with a summary table and what's still open in 2026.
Read guideBenami retrospectivity, secured-creditor priority, waqf status, a Hindu woman's intestate succession, the Aravalli hill definition, and Urban Land Ceiling 'vacant land' — six Supreme Court questions that are still open in 2026, and what to check on a property that touches any of them.
Read guideThe Supreme Court's September 2025 interim order on the Waqf (Amendment) Act stayed a District Collector's power to tag disputed land as government property, but left the deletion of prospective waqf-by-user recognition standing. Here is exactly what that means for a title chain.
Read guideNo — a tenant can never acquire ownership via adverse possession, however long the tenancy lasts, per the Supreme Court's September 2025 ruling in Jyoti Sharma v. Vishnu Goyal. Here's the narrow exception, and how it differs from a trespasser's rights under Ravinder Kaur Grewal.
Read guideA gift deed from a senior citizen can be cancelled by a Maintenance Tribunal years after registration if the donor is later neglected or dispossessed — and the 2025 Supreme Court ruling in Urmila Dixit v. Sunil Sharan Dixit lowered the bar for this even further. Here's what buyers, families, and lenders need to check.
Read guideA 2020 Constitution Bench ruling replaced the easy either/or lapse test with a strict two-part standard for Section 24(2) land acquisition claims. Here's what buyers and sellers still get wrong.
Read guideThe Supreme Court's Vineeta Sharma ruling made daughters coparceners by birth in Hindu joint families, and told courts to treat undocumented 'oral partition' stories with suspicion. Here's what that means for a property you're buying today.
Read guideIf you bought property through a General Power of Attorney instead of a registered sale deed, the Supreme Court has ruled you don't legally own it — no matter how old the transaction or how the paperwork is worded. Here's what Suraj Lamp, Munishamappa, Ananthamurthy, and Ramesh Chand actually decided, and how to fix a GPA-based title chain.
Read guideAncestral property sales fail in five specific ways — hidden coparceners, daughters' post-2005 claims, unregistered partitions. Here's how to verify before you pay.
Read guideComplete guide to the Hindu Succession Act covering daughter's equal rights after 2005 amendment, ancestral vs self-acquired property, coparcenary rights, and succession rules for heirs.
Read guideComplete guide to joint property ownership in India—understand types like joint tenancy and tenancy in common, legal rights of co-owners, partition process, and risks when buying jointly-owned property.
Read guideLearn how lis pendens and Section 52 TPA protect buyers from purchasing disputed property. Understand the legal implications of pending litigation on property deals.
Read guideEverything you need to know about the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 — buyer rights, developer obligations, complaint filing, and RERA registration verification.
Read guideComplete guide to revenue records in India including Pahani, 7/12 Extract, Khatauni, Jamabandi, and RTC. Learn what they contain, how to access them online, and why they matter for property verification.
Read guideKey sections of the Transfer of Property Act 1882 that every property buyer and lawyer must know. Sections 5, 6, 52, 53A, 54, 55, and 58 explained in plain language.
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