PUNE: Citizens’ groups have called for the swift resolution of cases and the recruitment of additional adjudicating members to hear the backlog of cases at the earliest opportunity due to the over 6,000 complaints that are now pending with the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulation Authority (MahaRERA). This week, citizen groups issued a message to the […]
Pune residents demand that MahaRERA matters be resolved quickly.more
PUNE: The state’s revenue officials have cited difficulties in enforcing Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) recovery warrant orders, with developer properties to be auctioned either on lien or rent or already mortgaged to financial institutions. Authorities are working hard to ensure that nearly 751 recovery warrant orders are carried out and that homebuyers receive […]
Revenue officials cite obstacles to carrying out MahaRERA orders.more
The Maharashtra Government plans to bring the various agencies responsible for affordable housing schemes under a single umbrella. Sources indicate that the Government is considering bringing the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) and others to urban development services in order to streamline and speed up affordable housing projects. While […]
State Government to soon unite housing bodies to speed up affordable housing projects.more
On November 29, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray declared a hold to the construction of the metro shed in the city’s green lung Aarey Colony, where a large number of people had protested against the cutting-down of trees for the development. However, he explained that the work of the Mumbai metro project was not stopped […]
CM Uddhav Thackeray announced a stay for Metro construction in Aarey Colony area.more By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter On August 29, 2019, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Tree Authority (BMC) gave its approval to chop more than 2,700 trees for a metro car-shed in Mumbai’s leafy Aarey Colony region. At the meeting of the Authority, chaired by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi, the proposal was cleared, although members of the Shiv […]
BMC Tree Authority approves chopping of 2,700 trees for metro construction in Aarey Colony.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter In the past, many slum residents underwent redevelopment complained that developers didn’t pay the rent amount for the accommodation for transit. For instance, More than 100 slum residents of the Dhobi Ghat slum rehabilitation project in Mumbai have been telling us that they have not received their monthly rental from the developer […]
Three years advance rent payable by developers under SRA projects: Maharashtra Government.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter On Monday, the state legislative council approved the law giving a tax exemption for residential properties whose carpet area is within 500 square feet. While the proposal was tabled, Devendra Fadnavis, said that the government chose to waive property tax in Mumbai only because the BMC is financially viable and can achieve the […]
Waiver of taxation for property in Mumbai approved for apartments of up to 500 sq ft.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter On 26 June 2019, Maharashtra government said, The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) will perform a structural audit of bridges constructed by the local civic body in Mumbai in the last five years. The government announced in the Legislative Council the audit of the Mumbai bridges carried out by CAG, […]
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to perform Mumbai’s Bridges Structural Audit.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter A proposal to take parts of Palghar and Raigad to competence under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) was approved by both the Maharashtra Houses on 20 June 2019. In February 2019 the State Cabinet decided to extend the competence of the MMRDA to 2,000 sq km. Chief Minister […]
Extensions of MMRDA development plan for Raigad & Palghar got approved by Maharashtra legislature.more
By Abhay Harish Shah, Realty Quarter The Indian Startup ecosystem in the previous decade has experienced a tectonic change. The amount of start-ups has increased seven times from approximately 7000 in 2008 to approximately 50,000 by the end of 2018. Honourable Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, TiE Mumbaí and KPMG-India have recently published two research […]
Maharashtra is likely to be the Future Startup Capital of India.more