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21 posts about checklist.

An aerial view of walled, empty plots with concrete roads on the left and green wheat fields with an irrigation channel on the right, divided by a raised earth bund. Indore8 min read नगर निगम के अंदर या बाहर?

Inside or outside municipal limits: gram panchayat or IMC

Inside IMC or in a gram panchayat: who sanctions the colony, who lets you build, who owns the pipe and who sends the bill, and how to find out before you pay.

8 Sep 2025
A man in a sweater reads a laptop screen late at night, with city lights blurred through a rain-spotted window behind him. Buying guides9 min read ज़मीन इंदौर में। आप कहीं और।

Buying a plot in Indore when you live somewhere else

What you can verify about an Indore plot from Pune or Dubai, what only feet on the ground can tell you, and why the money always moves last.

8 Sep 2025
A wide entrance gateway of pale concrete columns spans a fresh tarmac road, with a planted median of palms and flowering shrubs and houses still under construction beyond it. Maps & plans7 min read वादा अलग चीज़ है। नक्शा अलग।

Promised vs sanctioned: the brochure and the layout plan

Why a brochure binds nobody and a sanctioned layout does, what reserved land looks like on the sheet, and the one question to ask when the amenity is not on it.

8 Sep 2025
Two tall concrete gate pillars and a fresh boundary wall enclose an empty plotted field at sunrise, a few staked saplings inside and the city faint on the horizon. Buying guides7 min read ज़मीन ख़रीदने से पहले

Five checks before you buy land in Indore, each with its red flag

Five two-minute checks on any plot in Indore — registration, khasra, zone, proposed roads, sanctioned plan — and the red flag hiding inside each one.

8 Sep 2025
A two-storey brick house under construction on open ground, wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, with a heap of sand, a cement mixer and a stack of red bricks in front of it. Money8 min read प्लॉट पर लोन

Plot loans are not home loans

Less of the value funded, fewer years, sometimes a deadline to build, a tax break that waits — and a bank that checks the ground before it checks you.

8 Sep 2025
Two men shake hands across a wooden table with a stack of blank papers and a pen lying between them. Papers & law7 min read टोकन देने से पहले

The token: the agreement that comes before the sale deed

The token is the first money you pay and the moment you have least on paper. Six things to put in the agreement to sell before it moves.

8 Sep 2025
A thick stack of old, worn papers tied with jute twine lies on a dark wooden table Papers & law7 min read काग़ज़ पूरे हैं?

The five documents that decide whether land is safe

The land is usually fine; the paper decides. The five documents that separate a plot you can build on from one you can only argue about, and how to read each.

8 Sep 2025
A man in a blue shirt walks along the footpath of an established colony at dusk, street lamps lit above him and a small park behind Papers & law9 min read ज़मीन देख ली — बनाने वाले को देखा?

How to verify a developer in Indore

A clean plot from a developer who does not finish is still a problem. An afternoon in a colony they completed, five things to look at, what they must prove.

8 Sep 2025
A blank white hoarding on two rusted steel posts stands over a dry, walled plot beside a highway on the edge of a city Indore7 min read ब्रोशर नहीं, शहर पढ़िए।

Read the city, not the brochure: judging a location yourself

Zone, roads, distance, neighbours, register: five reads that tell you what a location in Indore already is, without a single phone call.

8 Sep 2025
Two men sit across a wooden table with a folded paper, a notebook and two steel cups of tea between them Buying guides9 min read दो सौदे, एक ज़मीन

Buying from a developer vs an individual owner

A developer sells you a project and a promise; an owner sells you one parcel and its paper trail. The questions for each, and the three that never change.

8 Sep 2025
A bare concrete frame of a five-storey building, half clad in brick and wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, stands over a wet street of auto-rickshaws under a grey sky. Papers & law7 min read रजिस्टर्ड है — पर किसका?

What RERA does, and what it does not

Who must register with MP RERA, what an agent's number means, and the four checks a registration does not replace: title, ownership, coverage and sanction.

8 Sep 2025
A distribution transformer mounted between two concrete poles at the entrance to a walled colony, with a sandy track running in past a neem tree and a long boundary wall. Buying guides8 min read सुविधा है या वादा?

Is the colony serviced? Power, water, sewer

A gate, a road and a wall can be finished years before a working connection. Six questions and one visit after dark tell you what you are really buying.

8 Sep 2025
An empty white hoarding on two rusted steel posts stands over a colony of low houses as the sky turns orange at dusk. Buying guides8 min read इश्तिहार की भाषा

Decoding the advertisement: seven phrases and the question each one hides

Prime location, approved, clear title, loan available — what each pamphlet phrase can honestly mean, and the one question that puts it on paper.

8 Sep 2025
Two men at a wooden table in a sunlit office, one resting his hand on a stack of papers pulled from a worn cardboard file. Money7 min read बेचते वक़्त

The questions your own buyer will ask you, asked now

One day you are the seller, and every gap in your file becomes a discount. The five things to get in order years before you list a plot.

8 Sep 2025
A yellow measuring tape hooked to the foot of a rough concrete boundary wall and run out along the ground of an empty plot. Papers & law8 min read सरहद का झगड़ा।

How boundary disputes start, and the cheap half of avoiding them

Boundary disputes begin as a few feet nobody measured. The six ways a line goes wrong, and the five cheap things to do before you build.

8 Sep 2025
An agent in a pale blue shirt shows something on his phone to an older couple standing on an empty plotted site Buying guides7 min read अच्छा एजेंट सवालों से नहीं डरता

Five questions to ask your real estate agent

Five questions to put to a real estate agent before you pay a token, what a good answer sounds like, and why an agent with good stock enjoys them.

8 Sep 2025
A young couple holding hands on bare ground, looking out over rows of marked plots and a concrete road at sunrise Buying guides9 min read शुरू से क़ब्ज़े तक

From first search to possession: the nine stages and how long each takes

The nine stages of buying a plot in Indore, in the order they belong, and why the token should come fifth, after the record and the ground.

8 Sep 2025
A low block-wall foundation with steel bars rising from it, a stack of red bricks and a mixer beside it, at the edge of a colony at dusk Buying guides8 min read दो रास्ते, एक फ़ैसला

Plot or flat: two products, two checklists

A plot and a flat are different products, not two prices for one thing. What each asks of you, and the five checks that belong to each.

8 Sep 2025
An open cardboard box of old papers tied with string, on a wooden table in a sunlit living room Papers & law10 min read क़ब्ज़े के बाद

After you own it: property tax and municipal records

Who taxes your plot, why the seller stays liable until the record is changed, and what a tax receipt does and does not prove about ownership.

8 Sep 2025
A man in a brown shirt and sandals walks slowly across a bare, rubble-strewn plot beside a concrete kerb, head down, with a half-built house and the city's outskirts behind him. Buying guides8 min read ज़मीन पर जाकर क्या देखें।

The plot site visit: what to check with your feet

Walk all four sides, pace the road, return at another hour, look down and up, ask the neighbours, photograph the markers with the date on. The site visit list.

8 Sep 2025
A whitewashed boundary stone stands at the corner of a bare, cracked plot beside a fresh concrete kerb and an unmade road, with brick houses under construction and open fields behind. Buying guides8 min read प्लॉट लेने से पहले, ये आठ सवाल ज़रूर पूछिए।

The eight questions every plot buyer in Indore asks, and where each answer sits

Registration, khasra, zoning, proposed roads, the sanctioned layout, building limits, plot position and promoter: eight questions and where each answer sits.

8 Sep 2025

Read it. Then check it on the map.

Every colony's boundary, its approved layout, its zoning and its paperwork — on one screen. Signing in is free.

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