Uniform Builder Buyer Agreement (BBA) has been the demand of Indian home buyers for long. In the absence of it, while the home buyers were being harassed by the unscrupulous builders, the sector was at the receiving end of poor perception in the collective consciousness. Track2Realty evaluates whether a Model Builder Buyer Agreement will be a reality after the repeated interventions by the Supreme Court of India.
RERA is yet again under the scanner after the Supreme Court of India questioned whether it is a rehabilitation center of ex bureaucrats. The functioning and performance of RERA, or rather lack of it, has been challenged at each and every level in now nearly 8 years of its existence. A Track2Realty report. Wait! I am not giving any opinion. My opinion is already there in the public domain. Now the Apex Court in the country, the Supreme Court of India is saying so. I have always maintained that the very purpose of RERA was defeated when the ex-Bureaucrats were made the Chairman and members.
The Supreme Court had directed a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged money laundering by the developers, that provided relief to over 42,000 home buyers of the Amrapali Group with the verdict.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to ensure that all real estate projects launched in the country prominently display the earthquake-resistant category in which they fall and also explain the connotations of the category as defined by the government.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, Aug 27, ordered DLF to deposit Rs 630 crore in 3 months as a pre-condition for entertaining its appeal against the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) decision upholding a Competition Commission’s order imposing the hefty penalty.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Supreme Court will Monday, May 5, hear pleas of the Noida authority and home buyers, challenging the Allahabad High Court’s order to demolish Supertech’s two under-construction 40-storey towers in the real estate firm’s Emerald Court project.
Track2Realty: With the Supreme Court upholding the State Governments’ right to levy Value Added Tax (VAT) on real estate, buyers will have to pay the tax on sale transactions. In Maharashtra the VAT subject dispute is for period between 2006-2010.
Track2Realty: In a reprieve for 140 families of Campa Cola Compound at Worli spending sleepless nights over the sword of demolitions hanging over their head, the Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 1, posted a special leave petition by a group of residents for hearing on Thursday.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Sahara Group on Friday, Sep 28, assured the Supreme Court that its two companies, which had raised Rs 24,000 crore through Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures (OFCDs) from their investors will refund the amount within three months.
Sahara India has accused market regulator SEBI of not accepting data, since Monday, of the three crore investors of the company who had invested in its optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs). Sahara sent the data to SEBI following a Supreme Court order to furnish documents relating to investors, supporting redemption documents, application forms, approval and allotment of bonds to the market regulator.