MahaRERA issues notices for the recovery of money
Under Section 40 (1) of the RERA Act 2016, the authority can issue recovery warrants against developer who failed to comply with its order to refund home buyers.
Under Section 40 (1) of the RERA Act 2016, the authority can issue recovery warrants against developer who failed to comply with its order to refund home buyers.
The execution of the orders is still a far fetched process as the RERA has failed to implement the execution mechanism under the RERA.
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA) was enacted in India to regulate the real estate sector and protect the interests of homebuyers.
In recent years, Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs) have emerged as key players in shaping the real estate sector, ensuring transparency, accountability, and protecting the rights of homebuyers. Real Estate Regulatory Authorities were established to regulate and promote the real estate sector, with the primary objective of safeguarding the interests of homebuyers and promoting fair practices within the industry.
The real estate sector was unregulated for a long time. If customers experienced delays, they had little redress. Because court disputes may take a long time, most customers were at the discretion of the builders. A proper complaint process has emerged as a result of the implementation of RERA.
Affordable housing remains a pressing concern in India, where a significant portion of the population grapples with inadequate housing conditions and homelessness.
The major challenges in the insolvency resolution of real estate companies arise from the peculiarities of this sector, especially since the divergent interests of the allottees of the real estate projects do not align with the scheme of the CIRP.
RERA was implemented to acknowledge and solve discrepancies and issues of home buyers. By establishing rules for the sale of real estate and requiring developers to adhere to certain criteria, it protects the interests of homebuyers.
Despite the fact that such relief should not have existed, the NCLAT instead attempted an “experiment” to adopt the strange idea of Reverse CIRP, which has no precedent in the Code.
Section 18 (1) gives two kinds of rights to the homebuyers i.e. right to get a Refund along with Interest and the Right to get Compensation.
CIRP is a process to determine the capability of repayment of the defaulted corporate. For this purpose, IRPs are appointed. They evaluate the assets and liabilities to determine the capability of repayment.
In Banking Industry, the Borrower is not in a position to negotiate the Terms of the Loan Agreement, especially in cases of Home Loans, hence there is inequality of Bargaining power among Home Buyers.
Section 7 of the Code permits a financial creditor to initiate a CIRP procedure against the guarantor being a corporate debtor in accordance with the default committed by the principal borrower.
Once a voluntary consumer association is registered in the Societies Registration Act, it will be deemed to be a recognized consumer association unless it is a voluntary association of the consumers.
In the past five years of RERA, it has been successful to tackle the issues between the Home Buyers and Builders or Developers and providing transparency into the real-estate projects.