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GMADA Property Transfer: Moving a Plot Allotment Into Your Name
Buying a plot from an existing allottee is not the same transaction as buying a plot from a private owner. There is a third party involved who has to agree, and if you ignore that, you can complete a perfectly good sale deed and still not be the recognised holder of the plot. GMADA property […]
Lal Lakir in Punjab: Property Rights Inside the Village Red Line
A family in a village outside Jagraon has lived in the same house since the 1950s. Three generations were born in it. Nobody has ever questioned that it is theirs. When the youngest son tried to raise a loan against it to expand his workshop, the bank asked what document proved ownership, and there wasn’t […]
Will Registration in Punjab: Is It Compulsory and How It Works
An elderly man in Patiala wrote his will on plain paper in 2016, signed it, and kept it in a steel almirah. When he died, one son produced it and the other said it was not in their father’s handwriting and that the old man had not been of sound mind by then. Neither claim […]
Building Plan Approval in Punjab: The Online Process and What Gets Checked
A family in Ludhiana built a three storey house on a plot approved for two. Nobody stopped them during construction. The problem surfaced four years later, when the buyer’s bank sent a valuer, the valuer asked for the sanctioned plan, and the sanctioned plan showed a building that did not match the one standing on […]
E-Stamp Paper in Punjab: How to Buy It Online and Verify It
Stamp paper used to be the weakest link in an Indian property transaction. A physical sheet bought from a licensed vendor, backdated on request, occasionally counterfeit, and impossible for an ordinary buyer to check. India has had at least one stamp paper scandal large enough to become a byword for the problem. E-stamp paper in […]
Partition Deed in Punjab: Dividing Family Property Without a Dispute
Three brothers in a village near Jagraon divided their father’s land in 1998. They walked the fields, agreed who took which side, built on their portions and farmed them for twenty-two years without a written word between them. Then the eldest died, his sons in Canada asked for their share of everything, and nobody could […]
Encumbrance Certificate in Punjab: How to Check a Property for Hidden Loans
A buyer in Zirakpur paid eleven lakh as advance on a builder floor. The fard showed the seller as owner, the flat was ready, the family was pleasant. Four weeks later the bank refused his home loan because the property already carried a charge from a loan the seller had taken against it in 2019 […]
Buying Agricultural Land in Punjab: Who Can Purchase and the Ceiling Limits
A software engineer in Bengaluru wants ten killa near Kharar. A retired couple in Ludhiana want to add to the family holding. A cousin in Toronto wants a farmhouse plot outside Mohali. Three ordinary requests, and only two of them are legal. Buying agricultural land in Punjab is governed by two separate rulebooks that people […]
Punjab Land Measurement: Marla, Kanal and Bigha to Square Feet
A buyer in Kharar agrees to a plot described as five marla. He works out his budget on 1,125 square feet, because that is what the dealer’s board implied. The seller’s fard puts the same plot closer to 1,361 square feet. Nobody in that conversation lied to anybody. They were using two different marlas, and […]
Site Visit Conversion: Turning Property Visits Into Bookings
A builder in Zirakpur told us his campaigns were failing. Four hundred leads in a month, thirty site visits, two bookings. The campaigns were not failing. The campaigns delivered thirty people who drove to a site on a Sunday, and twenty-eight of them left without buying. Site visit conversion was the problem, and no amount […]