Builder Pockets 90% of Your Money,Then Cancels Your Flat — Tribunal Says: Not on Our Watch

A Mira Road builder collected over ₹28 lakh from a homebuyer across four years, never once executed an Agreement for Sale, then cancelled his flat for “non-payment.” The Maharashtra Real Estate Appellate Tribunal wasn’t buying it — and delivered one of the most comprehensive homebuyer-friendly rulings in recent memory.

MahaRERA Told Homebuyers to Cooperate. Tribunal Tells Builder to Pay Up

The Rais booked a flat in 2013, paid ₹79 lakh, and were promised possession by December 2017. What followed was a developer collapse, a project takeover, a majority consent exercise they never agreed to — and a regulator that told them to cooperate. The tribunal disagreed.

Builder Fails in Redevelopment, Homebuyers Lose Flats — and Society Walks Free, Says Tribunal

Eight Mumbai families paid crores for flats in a redevelopment gone wrong. The builder failed, the society moved on — and the Tribunal said the society owes them nothing.

What Is Carpet Area?

The RERA Act clearly defines carpet area under Section 2(k), removing long-standing confusion for homebuyers by specifying what is included and excluded from an apartment’s usable space.

Land Given for Farming, Not Housing: Bombay High Court Backs Maharashtra Govt in Taking Back Ambernath Cooperative Society Land

The Bombay High Court has ruled that land given free of cost for farming cannot be converted into illegal housing, backing the Maharashtra government’s decision to resume over 200 acres from an Ambernath cooperative society for gross misuse and encroachments.