Property Decisions
Can Create Lifelong Consequences.

A Title Verification Report is a legal scrutiny conducted by a advocate examining 30 to 42 years of property history. It verifies parent deeds, ECs, revenue mutation extracts (RTC/Pahani), BBMP Khata status, zonal approvals, and checks for encumbrances, litigation, or bank mortgages before purchase.

A minimum of 30 years of title history is required to establish a marketable title. However, for ancestral, agricultural, or converted land, a 42-year title search is recommended to verify original grants, DC conversions, and legal heir lines.

BBMP A-Khata is a municipal property tax document issued for fully compliant properties with approved plan sanctions and DC conversion. B-Register (B-Khata) is a tax collection register entry for properties with building violations or layout irregularities, offering limited marketability and no bank loan eligibility.

Unregistered Agreements to Sell are valid for enforcing specific performance under the Specific Relief Act if proper stamp duty is paid under the Karnataka Stamp Act. However, to create a legal charge or protect possession under Section 53A of the TPA, registration is mandatory.

PoA sales carry risks: the PoA might be revoked, forged, or rendered void by the death of the principal. Under Supreme Court rulings (Suraj Lamp case), PoA does not transfer legal title. Always demand direct sale deed execution by the original title owner.

Under Section 18 of the RERA Act, 2016, buyers can either demand a full refund of money paid along with prescribed interest, or claim monthly delay compensation interest until physical possession with Occupancy Certificate (OC) is handed over.

No. Offering possession without a valid Occupancy Certificate (OC) issued by BBMP or BDA is illegal in Bangalore. Possession accepted without OC exposes buyers to structural risks, municipal penalty taxes, and utility cutoffs.

Section 14 of RERA restricts builders from making additions or alterations to sanctioned plans without the written consent of at least two-thirds of the allottees. Deviations can be challenged before the K-RERA Authority.

Under Section 17 of RERA and the Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act (KAOA), 1972, the promoter must execute a deed of conveyance for common areas and transfer maintenance/corpus funds to the registered Resident Welfare Association (RWA) within 3 months of OC.

Yes. Following the 2005 Amendment to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act and the landmark Supreme Court ruling (Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma), daughters have equal coparcenary rights by birth in ancestral property, regardless of whether the father was alive in 2005.

No. A Karta or single legal heir cannot sell ancestral property without the consent of all coparceners, unless the sale is proven to be strictly for legal necessity or benefit of the joint family estate. Omitted heirs can file a Partition & Cancellation Suit.

A Partition Deed legally divides joint family property into distinct individual shares and requires full stamp duty and registration. A Family Settlement Deed records a pre-existing oral agreement among legal heirs to adjust family claims and can avoid heavy stamp duty if properly structured.

Under Article 110 of the Limitation Act, 1963, the limitation period to file a suit for partition is 12 years from the date the excluded coparcener is denied their share or learns of their exclusion from the joint property.

Immediately file an urgent Civil Suit for Permanent Injunction and Possession, accompanied by an Order 39 Rule 1 & 2 Application for Ex-Parte Temporary Injunction (TI) to restrain construction. Concurrently, apply to the ADLR for an official government boundary survey.

An ADLR (Assistant Director of Land Records) survey is an official government measurement based on original survey records (Tippani, Atlas, Pakka Book). It establishes exact GPS boundaries and resolves overlapping survey numbers or plot mismatches.

Adverse Possession allows a squatter to claim title if they occupy private land openly, continuously, and hostilely for over 12 years without owner interruption. Landowners can defend by issuing legal notices, filing ejectment suits, or securing injunction decrees before 12 years elapse.

Verify Encumbrance Certificates (Form 15) for 30+ years, check CERSAI (Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest) database for existing bank charges, inspect original physical title deeds, and perform a public legal notice publication in news media.

Borrowers or bona fide third-party buyers can file a Securitisation Application (SA) under Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act before the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) to challenge improper classification of NPA, procedural defects in Section 13 notices, or undervaluation of auction properties.

Issue a formal Notice to Quit under Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act terminating the lease. If the tenant fails to vacate, file an Summary Ejectment Suit in Civil Court claiming eviction, arrears of rent, and mesne profits for illegal occupation.