Month: December 2019
Encroaching common areas
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm For the last 27 years we have been living on the first floor of TNHB apartment quarters at IV Avenue, Indira Nagar, Adyar. The owner...
In the absence of a Will
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I live in an apartment complex comprising 23 flats. One family runs a tuition centre from their home and residents are inconvenienced by the visiting...
Delay in handover
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm In November 2012, my son booked a flat in a multi-storied apartment complex at Kelambakkam, OMR. As per the original agreement, the flat was to...
Delay in handover
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm I purchased a 3BHK apartment and was promised handover in June 2017. I still haven’t received the unit and the builder anticipates more delays. I an...
Transfer of ownership
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm My widowed sister inherited one-third of her father-in-law’s property by a clear title. She and her other in-laws had to redevelop it with the help...
Receipt of maintenance charges
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm I stay in a residential complex. While many flats are owner-occupied, there are a few which are either on lease or rent. It has been the...
Revenue maps and construction issues
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm The neighbours on either side of my house have started construction on their vacant land. There is lot of cement, debris and dust around my...
Altering a patta
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I purchased a flat in 2010. The plot area is 2,900 sq.ft. as per thepattaand 3,200 sq.ft. plot area according to the sale deed. I...
Service tax on UDS
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I booked a flat in February 2015 and got possession in July 2016. The payments were released stage-wise depending on the completion of work. Separate...
Following building bye-laws
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I own a 1050 sq.ft. flat in a residential complex comprising approximately 70 flats. The Owner’s Welfare Association of this complex is denying me permission...