Gurgaon’s Real Estate Regulation: What homebuyers need to know.
Real estate is a developing industry in India, however, in recent years, customer complaints have increased. The majority of builders, real estate agents, and agencies commit fraud and fraud on their consumers. Following a rapid increase in complaints, the national and state governments issued the RERA Act and new legislation for real estate.
RERA stands for Real Estate Regulatory Authority, and it is responsible for ensuring openness in the real estate business with developers, builders, clients, and brokers. It seeks to cut down on project delays and misspellings. RERA is now required for all builders and developers.
Due to severe delays in possession and poor building quality, India’s real estate business has been somewhat sluggish in certain locations for the past few years. The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, was announced by the federal government in March 2016 as the regulator for the real estate sector. This act will go into effect on May 1, 2017, and will apply to both under-construction and new projects.
The government seeks to ensure openness in this area because the real estate industry is notorious for its inconsistencies. RERA will guarantee that builders provide accurate information to property purchasers. RERA would seek to safeguard buyers’ interests and ensure that projects are completed on schedule.
The government has made it essential for builders to deposit 70% of the collected revenue in an escrow account under RERA. This is done to prevent funds from being syphoned from one project to another. The funds will be distributed depending on building progress as approved by the builder’s Engineers and Chartered Accountants. If the rules are broken, fines and penalties will be imposed.
Each state must establish regulatory authorities and appellate tribunals to resolve buyer-builder complaints within 120 days. Although it is federal legislation, its implementation will be the responsibility of state governments.
Home purchasers can breathe a sigh of relief since, under this measure, they will be required to pay for what they purchase. Builders can no longer charge for the highly built-up area. Until now, if a customer rents a 1,500 sq. ft. property, they only get 1,000-1,200 sq. ft. of carpet area, with the remainder being balconies and open areas. RERA ensures that there are no hidden fees and that you just pay for the carpet area.
Furthermore, in an effort to remove the malpractice of selling the property without the requisite permissions, RERA will make it mandatory for developers and builders to register with the regulator in order to make house purchasing a pleasant process.
In Gurgaon, implementation will take months.
Homebuyers in Haryana would have to wait a bit before the much-anticipated Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) 2016 restrictions become mandatory for builders. The state administration recently made the draught RERA guidelines public, encouraging locals to provide input and improvements.
Haryana is expected to implement RERA in June, since the government declared and released the draft regulations of the Act on the Department of Town and rural planning’s website on April 28. It also asked locals to provide comments by May 15, after which the problems identified would be reviewed and the final draft would be approved and given to the government for execution.
