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The Centre's move to set up a panel to examine issues related to stalled real estate projects and suggest ways for their completion is a step in the right direction, homebuyers' body FPCE said on Tuesday. The grouping also expressed hope that practical solutions would emerge for benefits of all stakeholders but rued that the panel does not have anyone representative of homebuyers. The Forum For People's Collective Efforts (FPCE), an umbrella body of homebuyers, had played an important role in enactment and implementation of RERA. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has set up a 14-member committee headed by former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to examine the issues related to stalled real estate projects and recommend ways to complete such projects. FPCE President Abhay Upadhyay said setting up of the panel is definitely a step in the right direction and a very welcome move to resolve the issues of pre-RERA delayed project. "The credibility, intent, seriousness and effectivenes

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The sold area also included a recently launched project at Juhu which clocked sales of over 10 per cent of the sales potential on receipt RERA registration during the quarter

Five builders were booked for alleged irregularities to obtain MahaRERA registration for their projects in Kalyan Dombivali in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Thursday. They are accused of forging documents and submitting bogus ones to obtain permission from MahaRERA and local bodies, the Khadakpada police station official said. "The five were booked on Wednesday for forgery and other offences. This takes the total number of developers booked to 70. Earlier, 65 developers were booked for similar offences by Manpada and Ram Nagar police," he said.

The Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) on Thursday said it disposed of roughly 9,300 consumer complaints in 2022, on an average 25 cases daily. The UP RERA was established in 2017 to regulate the fast-growing real estate sector, bring transparency, protect the interest of homebuyers and ensure speedy resolutions of disputes of consumers and builders. In a statement, the UP RERA said it lodged approximately 6,900 complaints in 2022 and disposed of almost 9,300 complaints of aggrieved allottees. "Maximum complaints had been registered in the month of March 2022 - 695. In the month of December 2022 only 320 complaints have been registered, the lowest in 2022," it added. The authority said it has received approximately 47,000 consumer complaints, which is about 38 per cent of the total complaints filed across the country. Functioning with three members, one secretary and one chairman, the UP RERA said it has disposed of more than 42,000 complaints, which is about 41

The Gurugram bench of the Haryana real estate regulatory authority (HRERA) has imposed penalties of Rs 25 lakh each on five builders after they failed to deliver their housing units to buyers on time. The regulator, however, allowed the realtors' RERA registration certificates to remain in force with new timelines for completion of their projects. As per the official statement, Identity Buildtech Private Limited has been fined for not completing its project Ansal Highland Park at Sector 103 within the declared timeline of June 2022. In this case, the authority has allowed the RERA registration to be in force till May 2024. Similarly, a penalty of Rs 25 lakh has been imposed on BPTP Limited for not completing its project Park Terra at Sector 37-D, Gurugram. The deadline for this project, which was April 2022 earlier, has been extended till April 24. Another developer Advance India Projects Limited has been penalised for its failure to complete the construction of Zen Residences -1 .

The West Bengal Real Estate Regulatory Authority (WBRERA) is finally up and running, nearly 18 months after the Supreme Court struck down the state's own regulations introduced as a substitute for the central law, a senior official said. In May last year, the top court had declared the West Bengal Housing Industry Regulatory Act (WBHIRA) as unconstitutional. "The WBRERA is now in place and we have very recently commenced functioning. Until the IT backbone is ready, consumers will be able to file complaints against builders, agents and others physically. The website is expected to be operational within a fortnight," Sandipan Mukherjee, who assumed charge as WBRERA chairman, told PTI. West Bengal was perhaps the only state where the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, passed by Parliament, had not become functional. The WBRERA is headed by Mukherjee, an ex-Indian Forest Service officer, and consists of two other members -- B N Das (former power department official)

Maharashtra's real estate regulator has asked 13 district collectors to ensure that compensation payments totalling Rs 730 crore awarded to home buyers, who got duped by developers, reach the affected parties. The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRera) has also appointed a retired additional district collector to follow-up in such cases where dues have been pending, an official statement said. The body said in the last five years, it has issued 733 warrants in which developers have been asked to pay Rs 729.68 crore in compensation payments to home buyers who approached MahaRera after developers did not keep up their promises. It has written to 13 district collectors to ensure that the duped home buyers get the compensations awarded by the regulator over the last few years, it said. The 13 districts to which the request has been made from MahaRera include Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs, Thane, Pune, Raigad, Palghar, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Nashik, Chandrapur, Sindhudurg, .

Homebuyers' association FPCE on Sunday urged the West Bengal government to make the real estate law RERA functional in the state at the earliest to protect the consumers' interest. In May last year, the Supreme Court struck down the West Bengal government's law WBHIRA for regulating the real estate sector, saying it was unconstitutional. The state government introduced the West Bengal Housing Industry Regulatory Act (WBHIRA) as a substitute for the central law RERA, which was passed by Parliament in 2016. The apex court's ruling came on a plea filed by the Forum For People's Collective Efforts (FPCE), an umbrella body of homebuyers.The FPCE has played an important role in the enactment and implementation of RERA. FPCE President Abhay Upadhyay said it has been the association's endeavour to ensure that RERA is implemented in its letter and spirit across India. With the objective to have one law across India for the entire real estate sector, he said the Supreme Court, in its writ ...

The ultimate objective is that corporate governance systems must become simpler; not more complicated, Parekh said

The states with maximum project registrations are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

However, the procedure is currently limited only to primary sales in Maharashtra

If they do not get registered with us then we have got enough of more power to take action against them under section 59 and 61 of the Act.

Stick to RERA-registered brokers, preferably the tech-savvy kind, and look for deep knowledge of the micro-market you are interested in

According to another expert, whether parking space can be sold depends on the nature of the space concerned. It must conform to the definition of garage, as provided in the RERA.

Homebuyers' apex body FPCE expects the implementation of realty law RERA to improve following the Supreme Court's recent direction to the Centre to examine the rules framed by states.

As state after state diluted rules to regulate real estate, SC ordered a relook

The Supreme Court directed the Centre to examine whether the rules framed by various states under RERA are in conformity and subserve the interest of home buyers.