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Self-Redevelopment vs. Builder-Led Redevelopment: Which Is Right for Your Society?
For decades, redevelopment in Mumbai meant one thing: a housing society signs over its project to a private developer, who funds and executes construction in exchange for the right to sell additional flats. That’s still how most redevelopment happens today, but self-redevelopment — where the society itself takes on the developer’s role — has moved…
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SRA Projects Explained: Opportunities and Challenges for Developers and Slum Dwellers
The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme is one of Mumbai’s most consequential — and most contested — planning tools. Launched in December 1995 under the Slum Rehabilitation Act, it set out to solve a genuinely hard problem: with roughly half the city’s population living in slums at the time, there was no realistic way for…
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RERA Compliance in Redevelopment Projects: What Society Members Should Check Before Signing
By the time a redevelopment proposal reaches the signature stage, most housing society members are focused on carpet area, corpus, and rent during construction. Those numbers matter, but they sit on top of something more fundamental: whether the developer is actually complying with RERA, and whether the development agreement reflects that compliance in writing. This…
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DCPR 2034 Explained: Key Regulations for Redevelopment in Mumbai (33(5), 33(7), 33(9), 33(10) and More)
A plain-language guide to the DCPR 2034 regulations that govern redevelopment in Mumbai: which clause applies to which building, how FSI, fungible FSI and TDR work, and what it means for societies and landowners.
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Understanding FSI and TDR: How They Determine What a Redeveloped Building Can Offer
If you have ever sat through a redevelopment presentation and heard terms like FSI, TDR, and premium FSI thrown around, you know how quickly the conversation can become confusing for a lay society member. Yet these two concepts, FSI and TDR, are the single biggest determinants of what a redeveloped building can actually offer its…
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What is the RERA Act?
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 — better known as RERA — was introduced to bring transparency and accountability to a sector that had long operated without much of either. For anyone buying, selling, or redeveloping property in Maharashtra, understanding how RERA works, and where it applies, is essential. Is your society considering…
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Redevelopment: The Need of the Hour
Mumbai is a city running out of room to grow outward, which is precisely why redevelopment has become the defining story of its real estate market over the last decade. Ageing buildings, many of them 40 to 60 years old, are structurally tired, poorly equipped for modern living, and often unable to accommodate the families…