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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...
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...
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...
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...