by Meera | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Featured, News
The water tax is expected to be hiked by 8% in the next financial year, but citizens are wondering if it will lead to better services. The leak detection units had started functioning in 16 wards to reduce contamination of water. But in the last one year, only wards A...
by Meera | Feb 2, 2015 | Blog, Featured, News
The state cooperative election authority (SCEA) has clarified that a housing society’s associate members can be part of the managing committee. This will be a shot in the arm for old cooperative housing societies as more residents can participate in their...
by Meera | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, News
MUMBAI: Since one week, the children of Sanghvi Majestic housing society in Matunga have been meeting to practise their cricket strokes after dinner. The apartment will organize its annual Sanghvi Premier League cricket tournament on Republic Day. As always,...
by Meera | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, News
Vinayak Chavan, 37, has recently rented his 2-BHK apartment in Airoli to four young women, all engineers. A day after the tenants moved in, the housing society raised an objection saying that they were not comfortable with single women living there and would hence not...
by Meera | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog, Featured, News
MUMBAI: Housing societies do not have to pay service tax on maintenance charges collected from their members, a tax tribunal has ruled. This will reduce the maintenance outgo of residents of nearly a lakh housing societies in Mumbai and Thane, particularly the upscale...
by Meera | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Insights, News, Q&A
Nearly 85% of co-operative housing societies (CHS) in Mumbai alone do not have conveyance from their builders. It is the same elsewhere in Maharashtra. “Although the process is simple, people find it difficult to collect required documents from several...
