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Pay Your Property Tax by April 30 and Get 5 Per Cent Rebate

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started collecting property tax for the new financial year 2010-11. You can pay your property tax either in full payment or in two equal installments. The property tax amounting less than Rs. 1,000 can be paid in cash while the amount exceeding Rs. 1,000 has to be paid via Cheque [...]

Formation of Apartment Owners Association in Hyderabad

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Hyderabad is the most populous city of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The city is regarded as a blend of traditionality with modernity.The city is administered by a nagar nigam called Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The apartment owners in India can voluntarily form an apartment owners association for the maintenance of apartment [...]

Handover from builder and Corpus fund for Apartment maintenance

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The apartment owners association plays vital role in maintaining apartment and its amenities. But before the formation of apartment owners association, it is duty of builder to maintain the apartment and its amenities. Most developers provide a corpus fund for maintenance of apartment and its amenities. The builder collects maintenance fund from each buyer which [...]

Income Tax and Rebate for Apartment Owners Association

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Apartment owners association plays vital role in maintenance of apartment and works for welfare of its members. Apartment owners association may or may not be registered but it is always recommended to register the association to sue or defend any legal action. Apartment owners association collects maintenance charges from its members and earns revenue from [...]

Reverse Mortgage Loan For Senior Citizens

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Most of the financial institutes or banks will reject the loan application if borrowers has no income or whose age is over 60. If you retired from your existing job which is only source of income, you may need to struggle to meet both ends. This is not only your case, most of senior citizens [...]

Sanctions and Approvals Required For Builders

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Today real estate industry is one of the booming industries which offers good opportunity for investment. The demand for property is very high and availability of home loans, affordable property rate, income tax rebate encourage more and more buyers to invest on property. The builders come up with projects that suit the market demand. Innovative [...]

Guide to Apartment Owners Association: Formation and Functioning

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Today apartment owners association is vital part of a community living. Apartment owners association is association where all owners of the apartment are members and association maintains facilities or amenities available in apartment. Apartment owners association works for welfare of residents in apartment, conduct events or awareness program and protects the right of apartment owners. [...]

Joint Home Insurance by Owners Association

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Home owners association is association formed for maintenance of apartment and welfare of residents in the apartment. Homeowners association collects maintenance charge for common area and amenities in apartment. It is also the duty of the homeowners association or apartment owners association to provide the option of home insurance to its members. Home Owners Association [...]

Popular Methods to Calculate Maintenance Fee in Apartment Complexes

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Apartment owners and tenants have to pay maintenance fee for the amenities and service enjoyed by them in their apartment. Expense incurred for the maintenance of common area is shared among residents of apartment and income is distributed among apartment owners. Apartment owners form an association for collecting the maintenance fee and association works for [...]

Guide to Property Registration in Mumbai

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Property is one of the investments for long-term investment. When buying or selling a property it is compulsory to register. It ensures legal transfer and ownership of property. Registration act as a proof for transaction and registration is done after execution of agreement. The language of document can be English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati so [...]