Monday, 14 July 2014

Recent Phenomena: Society Having DDR Ordered in hand but finding difficulty its name on Property Card

Recent Phenomena: Society Having DDR Ordered in hand but difficulty in getting Property Card

Main Reasons: Improper Legal Title Flow and making Proper Opponents

Interesting cases are now coming up in the legal field that, irrespective of getting proper ordered of Deemed Conveyance from DDR, many societies are now facing problems for getting their name on the Property Cards/ VII-XII Extract.

Among the various reasons, one of the major reason neglecting in making necessary parties as a opponents in the Main deemed conveyance application. And along with that, checking proper legal title flow, aiming to get proper Mutation for Property Cards

Further, lacuna is that, in the absence of proper Rules, regulation and Act in MOFA that restricts DDR powers to order only till registration of ordered.

Thrust of clarity is urgently needed to address this issue in MOFA otherwise, despite having DDR conveyance ordered in hand the society will face difficult for registration of Mutation under Records of 
Rights, i.e. name will not be incorporated on the Property Card /VII-XII extract.

Moral of story: Get title flow clear before applying Deemed Conveyance and make all the necessary parties while applying the same.

Cases to be note:

Improper Title Flow:
In First case, even after receiving DDR Deemed Conveyance ordered, registration done, society members are now facing trauma situation, as Builder did forgery of Govt. Records and now entire building is likely to be under state Govt. control, despite flat purchased in good localities and high priced, its members. As of now there is no remedy, even forgery case Supreme Court cannot do anything.  

Necessary Parties as a opponents:
Among the others one famous case - Campa Cola CHS - CTS refused to incorporate its name on the above grounds.

Hence, check legal title flow at micro and sub-micro level and make proper parties to your application.

Ps: Feel Free to write any comment, opines and call me on cell 9819473440

Thursday, 20 March 2014

Deemed Conveyance for societies’ building on Undivided plot / Layout Plot / Condominium cases

Dear All:

For the Deemed Conveyance Matter for societies’ building on undivided plot /Layout Plot Plan / Condominium cases:

With ref to recent verdict made by the High Court, Mumbai in the case of Undivided/Layout Plot under section 11, wherever appropriate, shall bring out clearly  the right, title and the interest of each of the parties who have joined in the application or were made as the opponent/s  and the manner, whether separately, jointly or as a common entity or certain percentage of undivided interest in the Layout Plot, common areas and the facilities, in which the right, title and interest of the promoter or the landlord or other interested parties in the Layout Plot, common areas and the facilities to be conveyed to the applicant or persons or other entities managing or will be managing their affairs on such Layout Plot.

My Legal Research and Analysis:

Following are the few important points to be considered while making for Deemed Conveyance application if there is Society’s building standing on undivided plot/s:

1.       All the Societies and/or Existing Legal Structure Owners only to be make as parties.
2.       Further, RG plot with Undivided Unequal Share
3.       Addition to that RG Plot with or without BMC records
4.       Societies building with Natural and/or Non-Natural division on plots
5.       Multiple Societies building with division or/and undivided huge plot
6.       RG Plot without CTS records
7.       RG plot with Undivided Single Plot
8.       RG plot with Undivided Multiple Plots
9.       Plot and/or RG plots With or without marking and/or undivided shares

Legal and Technical Diagnosis:

Legal aspects for each building
FSI certificate with various technicalities
Detailing on FSI/FAR /RG calculation in tandem with BMC – DCR

All needs to be make a parties in the application of Deemed Conveyance, to be safer side to get clear cut FSI/FAR/TDR/Fungible FSI, Otherwise DDR’s Ordered challengeable in court of law.

Please Stay in Tune ...

Advo Vijay Trivedi
# vijtrivedi@gmail.com

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Legal - Technical Case Studies on Deemed Conveyance of Housing / Industrial Societies

Case Study 1: Deemed Conveyance for Leased Property 
}Property developed on leasehold land
}Can file DC application
}Remedies: Assignment is possible.
}Same legal rights transfer to the society as it had with the lessee with the original lessor.
}Can do all undertakings, including redevelopment.

}Successful story of Zam Zam Tower CHS in Town Mumbai

Case Study 2: Is Deemed Conveyance possible for Society – ‘Les pend ency’ in Court of law?
}Under MOFA – DDR has given exclusive Powers to provide conveyance to CHS.
}As per “Law Postulate”, even if Court case pending in any court of law, including High Court, unless and otherwise stay ordered in specific, DDR has power to issue Unaltered DC Order in favour of CHS.

}Hence, irrespective any disputes pending in any court, forums etc. DDR can issues Unaltered  order.
A Successful case has been done in DDR I city Mumbai.

Case Study 3: Layout plans CHS

}Govt. GR dated 25th Feb, 2011
}Provide provisions for Layout plans societies
}Individual Registered society can get Deemed Conveyance, irrespective of what agreement has mentioned by the builders/developers.
}Will have same rights, even after federal societies established.
}Important note: Federal societies will get only peripheral-fringe area rights, not individual CHS’s FSI. 

Case Study 4:
Merger and Acquisition of CHS Redevelopment on Self Financing
}Two different CHS established on same plots.
}Different landlords
}Different Developers
}Multiple Development Agreements
}Successful of Acquisition U/s 16 and 17of MCA 1961 and got DC in one societies.
}Now process of Redevelopments is under progress under self Financing Mode.

Case study 5: Industrial/Commercial Societies

}Any industrial and commercial registered societies will have same legal rights over land and building to get Conveyance from DDR.
}Have done successful Maharashtra’s first deemed conveyance for Rajiv Industry – located at sewri and property card process is in final stage.

Case study 7: ABC CHS – Kandivli (W) Land Lord: Multiple Sell off Society’s Plot

}CHS registered in 1993.
}Developers had Notarized POA from Land lord for Conveyance
}During that episode a Agent, a flat owner and ex-chairman of the same society, forged the matter, assisted other developer (Mr. x ) to get conveyance from the land lords directly, Conveyance deed registered and he sell-off to another developers and left society flat.
}Latter on sniffing goof-up made by him (Mr. x ) sold to another developer.
}Once again, another conveyance registered for the same plot.
}CTS – was not allowed to do survey by the flat owners – realized something wrong ???
}Now society’s has filed DC application.
Will society get DC? …………………Yes with TOTAL Rights.  
Case study 6:  ABC CHS – Santacruz (W) 
Drafting Conveyance Deed

}It is very vital important to get the professional Conveyance deed drafted by experienced technical - legal expert.
}In a given case, even after conveyance drafted and registration done, there are many case pending in the City Survey Office and at Talati level, where society's name could not be incorporated in the Property Cards and/or 7/12 uttara at village level.
}Record of Rights aspects - Missing link of Mutation of records.
}Remedies??? Yes it is available.


Note: As a ethics, all the names of CHS has been change to hide the original identity, and these are the real story successful done by me. 

Stay in tune with me for any similar or any legal technical problems faced by the society - remedies available ...
Advo Vijay Trivedi
# 9819473440

Saturday, 30 November 2013

  
Dear All,

It is my citizen’s duty to share very vital inputs for larger benefits of the society. In this direction, recently, central Govt. has already put in motion for New Title Act, 2012 and new authority is offing across the India, instead of CTS. It is time to act fast, for all office bearers and flat owners who understand the importance of Conveyance.

Following are the latest updates on Deemed Conveyance (DC) work done by Me on following different types of Societies:
1.       1. Layout plans societies – having six societies on same plot and a Federation got DC.
2.       2. Having Federation  of Seven Societies – Two societies wants to be standalone DC
3.       3. Two Societies Merged under MCA and got DC for higher FSI
4.     4.Smaller Members flat Owners Society- Just 10 Flat Members got DC
5.      5Society registered under Maharashtra Apartment Ownership Act –got DC
6.      6. Industrial plot having “Les Pendency” in civil court – got DC
7.    7Registered Conveyance society unable to incorporate its name on Property Card, got mutation successful under Records of Rights.    
8.     8.  Society having Dispute with builder on illegal structure, case is pending in High Court, still got DC in records time.
9.     9. Open Plot Housing Society – got its name in the property cards having Agricultural status.
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      Many mores unique problem faced by the Society ....DC work is under progress

Feel free to call me any time for any queries on any type of Conveyance and/or Deemed Conveyance.

Advo. Vijay Trivedi

# 9819473440 

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Deemed conveyance in Mumbai

Advocate Vijay Trivedi - My Profile in Nutshell ..
I have been attached with Real Estate industry – in last 23 years and become Legal Documents Specialist.
  
  My recent Achievements: Timely Accomplished Unique assignments under MOFA in Maharashtra:

First in Mumbai City and Second in India successfully carried out Unilateral Deemed Conveyance: for industrial plot in Mumbai and industrial re-development is under consideration.

First ever fastest deemed conveyance ordered received in favour of Mohaprabha CHS in Just 40 days under MOFA from DDR- City (1) Mumbai. Merger of two and more CHS got Deemed conveyance ordered in favoured of and processed for redevelopment of the housing society in Mumbai.

Recently I got Leased Property got Deemed conveyance order under MOFA in Mumbai city.

    Successful Tenants Negotiations SRA – Private Redevelopment:
SRA – Private Redevelopment: Successful completion of Redevelopment Process Planning, and ensuring Tenants Satisfaction with reliabilities, spanning form smaller to larger tenanted units at SRA and Private Redevelopments, JVS, DR Assignments.

To handle all issues pertaining to SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority), Tenancy, Redevelopment, Evictions, etc. and guide the Company with appropriate legal procedure to be adopted for resolving them.

Meanwhile, I got opportunity to make presentation to the various society and following are the various aspects that cater deemed conveyance. If any one wants, any clarification can email me on vijtrivedi@gmail.com, will revert with special answers. 

Deemed Conveyance Draft Presentation Transcript for PPT presentation

Introduction:

Why and What is Land and building Conveyance?
  1. Many property owners in Mumbai particularly co-operative societies face the serious problem of not having conveyance done on their purchased property asset.
  2. This is particularly so in properties purchased very many years ago.
  3. Given that real estate is a valuable asset and laws now allow it to be further developed, lack of conveyance deed is a crippling omission.
  4. A conveyance deed is a document that conveys a property’s title of ownership from the original owner to the ultimate purchaser.
  5. Establishing the right of the current owner in the absence of the orignal owner/ seller, is called deemed conveyance.
  6. It is the legal remedy in the situation where the seller is either untraceable or is unwilling to come forward and co-operate in the process of establishing current ownership of the property.
In this case, Deemed conveyance protects the basic right of the purchaser to the title of property.
  1. It ensures no one, including the seller, can then fraudulently claim a right to the property in future or try to use, pass off in public and try and dispose of the same as though it were his own.
  2. Conveyance or Deemed conveyance is the right and privilege of every Co-operative Society – housing, commercial, or industrial, that should come into existence within four months of its formation.
  3. Considering the changing scenario in the real estate sector, expenditure for procuring the Conveyance would be comparatively negligible in comparison to the benefits the Society and its members would derive once Conveyance is procured.
What supposed to be done by builder/developer/landlord on/after forming a cooperative society?
  1. As per MOFA, The Promoter( Builder/ Developer) is legally required to convey the land and the building within 4 months of  formation to  the society or any legal body of the flat purchasers. 
  2. However, it has been the experience that many promoters (Builders/Developers) have not conveyed the land and building to the legal bodies, having some vested interest.
  3. Therefore, government has amended the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act, 1963 (MOFA) and provided for the deemed conveyance in favour of the legal bodies.
  4. Getting the title of land and building by adopting the above procedure is known as deemed conveyance.
What is the difference between the deemed Conveyance and the Regular Conveyance.?
Legal Dictionary meaning - “deem” means
To judge or consider
Whereas, deemed means:
1. To have as an opinion (For e.g. judge may say: deemed it was time for a change)
2. To regard as; consider (for e…g deemed the results may be satisfactory)
Whereas conveyance means:
1)      The transfer of the title and interest of land by one or more persons, to another or others.
2)      By the term persons is here understood not only natural persons but corporations, cooperative society.
3)      The instrument which conveys the property is also called a conveyance deed.
Hence, what is conveyance deed
1)      The written document which transfers title (ownership) or an interest in real property to another person.
2)      To complete the transfer (conveyance) the deed must be recorded in the office of the registrar.
Hence for our purpose for Conveyance and Deemed conveyance is nutshell:
  1. In case of regular conveyance, the builder/ Developer/ Landowner prepares a conveyance deed, execute the same and appear before the Sub-Registrar of assurance for admitting their signature. Without any problem, the legal bodies get the conveyance with the co-operation of the builder/ landowner.
  2. In case of deemed conveyance, the builder/ land owner or their legal heirs are not co-operating, therefore, the aggrieved parties appear before the Designated Competent Authority, who hears all the parties and passes the necessary order of conveyance. 
1)      Ownership on the other hand is conglomeration of legal rights.
2)      Ownership denotes the legal relation between a person and an object (property).
3)      Ownership is thus the sum total of rights a person has over an object.
4)      A normal case of ownership would exhibit the following rights:
·         The right to possession an object (Though may not have the physical possession)
·         The right to use and enjoy the thing owned
·         The right to consume, destroy or redevelop or alienate the things owned. These are known as the liberties of ownership and power.
·         The right to enjoy a property indefinitely. Thus house property remains under the ownership of the legal owners until sold.
·         The right to retain residual right over a property / land. Thus when property let on lease, mortgage owner retains right of reversion i.e. the right to receive back the property on expiry of lease.
Hence, the Ownership is “the bundle of rights” in a property and can be owned by an individual, by two persons, an association of person, a cooperative society.
  • Again, the form of ownership may be diverse, such as ownership in case of in cooperative is co-share and in an undivided property interest.
  • In case of cooperative society, the entire land and building comprising the common property belonging to the co-operative society, which administers the areas of common uses and facilities.
  • The individual flat / shop owner, as a member of society , enjoys title to and exclusive right over his own premises together with proportionate share in areas of common use and facilities.
  • In case of any transfer, the cooperative society has right of pre-emption in order to regulate its membership patter, under the state cooperatives Act, (for e.g. MOFA)
In Nutshell, once deemed conveyance deed is done and registered, cooperative society enjoys the highest form of right with regards to Real Estate goes by the name Freehold or Free Simple. Such owner is entitle to:
a)      Use of land/property in any manner. (For e.g. Residence/commercial/industrial etc.)
b)      Enjoy property by exclusive possession. (for e.g. Outsider has no scope in my tertiary)
c)       Derive benefits, income or profit from the property. (For e.g. Cell Towner, Advertisement hoarding, rentals etc.)
d)      Dispose the property by sale. (For e.g. Redevelopment, Development Rights etc.)
e)      Enjoy/use the property so long as it does not result in a nuisance (For e.g. Enjoy it end in nos. of way, to the extent it is not harm public interest at large )
Check-list for Deemed Conveyance Order – Documents should be available
From Society:
1. Society Registration Certificate
2. List of Members
3. Complete Copy of Agreement for Sale
From Members:
1. Stamp Duty & Registration receipt of all the members
2. Stamp Duty & Registration receipt of all the Re-sale flats (Now not required)
3. Index II of all the agreements, if any, normally attached with agreements
From Developer / Land Owners:
1. Development Agreement
2. Death Certificate of owners of the land who have expired
3. Partnership deed of the partners
4. Partnership Deed Registration Proof
5. Conveyance Agreement with the Builder
6. Will, Probate Copy, in case the development agreement is signed by legal heirs.
7. Land Agreement (with the earlier owner and Builder)
City Survey Office / Talati / Tashildar Office:
1. 7/12 Extract
2. Village Form No.6
3. Property Card
4. City Survey Map
 Collector Office:
1.N.A Order
2.U.L.C Order (If not available, then it is allowed, as the ULC Act has been abolished by the state govt.)
3.N.A Tax paid Receipt
 From Local Authority / BMC
1. BMC approved Plan
2. BMC (Intimation of Disapproval - IOD)
3. BMC (Commencement Certificate)
4. BMC (Occupation Certificate)
5. BMC (Building Completion Certificate)
6. BMC (Property Tax Paid)
7. Location Map
Reports From Professional:
1. Survey Report – From Architect / Survey Engineer
2. Search Report – From an Advocate
3. Title Clearance Certificate about the property by an advocate (30 years)
4. Deemed Conveyance Draft (Universal Deemed Conveyance Draft)
Deemed Conveyance Application:
There are 20 documents to be submitted with the application, once society finalised will have all the details will be provided in due course of time. 

THANK YOU
Advocate Vijay Trivedi
High Court, Mumbai
# 9819473440 vijtrivedi@gmail.com