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Property transactions easier with title insurance

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All residential  properties  are built up on land only besides taking all necessary legal precautions sometimes the faults and past claims related to  property  could not be corrected as all property have previous owners. Nowadays people indulging in property transactions are more aware and concerned about the legal issues related to the  real estate  market. Title transactions offers safeguard to property transactions and helps in protection against the loss that arises from legal proceedings. The title insurance concept was first introduced by USA to alter the confusion which is based on property registration  deeds. For assuring the legality and credibility of property insurance policy is a helpful concept. As per laws of state government insurance of building has been mandatory since 2001. Title insurance has been practiced in India by foreign  invest ment companies but the result has not been desirable. In a study it has been observ...

Revise Land Use Plan

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By Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi The Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act of 1966, employs the Term Development Plan and indicates a variety of things, but is a mere land-use plan. It also contains the Development Control Rules (DC Rules). Which regulate the Character of buildings and density of population allowed in a specified area. The City’s godfathers who approved the Draft plan perhaps sincerely believed that the Plan would improve the quality of life but some of the prescriptions of the Plan have had the opposite. The prescribed density ceiling for ordinary housing was 200 tenements per net hectare. The FSI concept was based on the land price level and the population potential as assessed by the planners in pursuit of the decongestion concept. The high prevailing FSI in the Island city was reduced in the late seventies to 1.33, while it was fixed at 1 for the suburbs, and 0.75 and 0.5 for certain areas in the M, N, P (North) and R wards. Now since the situation is changed the...

TDS on property deals withdrawn

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee  rolled back the proposed 1% tax deduction at source (TDS) on transfer of immovable property. The Finance Bill had proposed that “every transferee of immovable property (other than agricultural land), at the time of making payment for transfer of the property, shall deduct tax at the rate of 1% of such sum”. The proposal would have increased the compliance burden on the part of the buyer, who would have had to deduct the amount and then submit it with the tax authorities. “This would have created a bottleneck for the buyer and increased the complexity of a property transaction,” said Samarjit Singh, managing director of Delhi-based property broking firm IndiaHomes. The buyer was required to provide personal details, details about the property and the seller in the tax deduction form. Experts say that the 1% TDS at the time of the transaction was also a way for the government to collect more information on the value of property transactions...