Month: December 2019
Disputing area of plot
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm My family owns four flats in a complex of eight. They were built on an ancestral property in a 50-50 JV with a builder. The...
Encroaching common areas
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm As per our apartment’s bye laws and memorandum of association, ‘the common area shall not to be used for keeping or storing furniture, packages, toys...
Builder fails to deliver
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I am part of a 24-member buyer group. We booked apartments in the year 2011 and the builder assured us delivery by 2013. He entered...
Sale of property
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I purchased a piece of land with an old house at Perungalathur in 1993. I have all the registered and parent documents, including property tax...
Builder fails to deliver
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I booked a house in a gated community in Chrompet and the builder handed it over in 2014. Although he had a completion certificate, the...
Collecting funds
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm A promoter has not completed the project and hence has not requested the Association (a registered one) to take over the project for maintenance. Under...
Progress of RERA
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm What is the status of the Tamil Nadu Ownership of Flats Act after Promulgation of RERA effective 1 May 2017? If violations are there by...
Ownership of property
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm In 1997, my father bought an apartment in my name from a builder. It was part of a cluster of 32 apartments. Recently, I reviewed the...
Calculating GST and TDS
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm Our apartment complex with 42 flats is situated at the corner of two busy roads. The Corporation is acquiring a portion of our land for...
Forming an Association
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm We would like to form an Association for common expenses like maintenance, cleaning, common electricity, etc. For this, we are required to open a bank...