The Madras High Court has suo motu initiated contempt proceedings against a senior official of the registration department, in connection with the issue of registration of documents involving the Pallikaranai marshland. When the matter … READ FULL STORY
Madras High Court, on June 15, 2017, clarified that housing plots that had been converted from agricultural land before October 21, 2016, may be registered. Passing orders on a clarificatory petition by the state … READ FULL STORY
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, on June 12, 2017, reiterated that there will be no extension for registration of ongoing projects, beyond July 31, 2017, under the Real Estate Regulatory Authority. “As far as … READ FULL STORY
The Indian real estate sector has been largely unregulated except for a few states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Karnataka. Any pro-consumer development was solely a result of judicial activism. This … READ FULL STORY
The long term growth of the real estate market, depends a lot on how the home buyers are empowered to take decisions and given a platform to fight for their rights. Legal recourse is … READ FULL STORY
A draft of a scheme to regularise unapproved housing plots and layouts in Tamil Nadu, has already been prepared and was under circulation, Advocate General R Muthukumaraswamy informed the Madras High Court, on April … READ FULL STORY
The Madras High Court has directed the registration authorities to return the registered sale deed documents to land owners, whose sale deeds were rejected citing objections raised under the Registration Act. The court gave … READ FULL STORY
A Madras High Court bench of acting chief justice Huluvadi G Ramesh and justice RMT Teekaa Raman, on March 28, 2017, permitted the resale of unapproved housing plots, while modifying its earlier order which … READ FULL STORY
The first bench of the Madras High Court, comprising chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sundar, on January 30, 2017, declined to vacate the order banning the registration of plots and houses, … READ FULL STORY
The Madras High Court has refused to relax the ban on the registration of unapproved plots in Tamil Nadu, saying that the whole endeavour was to untangle the mess created by indiscriminate conversion of … READ FULL STORY
The Madras High Court, on November 22, 2016, directed the Inspector General of Registration of Chennai zone, to issue orders to all jurisdictional registrars, not to register any document related to Pallikaranai marshlands in … READ FULL STORY
Seeking to prevent further development of unauthorised layouts and conversion of agricultural areas for non-agriculture use in an unplanned way, the Madras High Court has restrained authorities in Tamil Nadu from registering sale deeds … READ FULL STORY
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, announced in the assembly that the entire procedure related to registration of documents in the Registration Department, will be fully computerised. A software developed for the purpose, which … READ FULL STORY
