realacres

Agree with you here. According to MOFA, terraces should be charged 30% only, while PBAP min charges were 50% doing nothing. As said before many builders deliberately used to construct more terrace vis a vis carpet area just to increase the salable area & now this will stop.

However, what makes me wonder is the shamelessly charging of even top terrace for a row house which in actual is nothing but the roof/ceiling of it, yet 30-50% area used to be charged.

Don't know what will now happen to penthouses now where terrace area constitues a major part of the area of the flat (hey, not the penthouse mag).

Jitu_Sir

Dear realacres,
this is something which i m hearing first time. have you came across any project which charges the top terrace in a row house that way ?

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Pethkar Projects
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realacres

Yes, many & to name few, Pharande's projects at Nigdi, Clover's at NIBM-Kondhwa. The trick used is simple:- Construct less on 1st floor & keep the rest of the area in front of it open as terrace, which is nothing but roof of ground floor rooms.

Some builders in case of flats too have different charges, some charge 50% & some 100%. In case of Crosswinds by Mittal Developers, I was told that terrace above the flat (when enquired for top floor) will be charged 30% if you buy as it is, but if you want to put plants (in pots) it will be charged 50%. Add to it they said that they can develop swimming pool too as shown in their brochure if you can pay even more. Man, how will swim pool come up when the structure is not designed for that? Swimming pool if any, is given & is not optional in such cases as arrangements are already made.

Jitu, the problem doesn't end at terrace/balcony rates, even loading factor varies by 5-10% which is very high.

birendra

Realacre, The loading(carpet so salabe varied up to 25%). Quick example I can give is Lavasa. When i enquired 18 months ago they had close to 38% loading to carpet area when most were loading 25%(few even 20%). I have not verified but have heard that even Rohan's Lehar project has high loading.

Jitu sir, I have seen even the top terrace of RowHouse/Bungalow charged by 20-35 %. Example Nyati's project near Corinthian club(I forgot name of the scheme). In face around 2006 when I was searching most were charging for top terrace(roof of 1st floor).

Infact we went ahed and did one project in a coperative society way and there was no charge for top terrace also no charge for the terrace/balcony in the 1st floor which was just the roof of ground floor. That was a big differentiator apart from others. Hence as real mentioned for sure builders charge for top terraces.

Cheers,
Birendra.

Cheers,
Birendra.

Jitu_Sir

Dear realacres, birendra
the best way to utilize top terrace is to put solar panels for hot water provision for toilets in the building to conserve electrical energy. even some area can be used for erecting muti-operator cellular tower to address the issue of signal problem.

enduser

Jitu, I hope your terrace queries are with good intensions, otherwise please don't do the same thing with terraces (if any) of your Samrajya project to get some extra profit (after all you are a project partner)

Now, this post also allows me to score a century of posts. Oh! What an inning!

Jitu_Sir

Dear enduser,
Firstly congradulations for scoring a ton.
In collaboration with M/s. Dolphin Gas Systems Pvt. Ltd. we are providing solar panels throughout the terraces in new buidlings of Samrajya for hot water provision in all toilets. so no scope to allot them to anyone staying below.

dayrookie

Dear Jitu,

How many flats will be there in the new buildings and what would be the approximate time line for them?

Thanks

realacres

Agree with solar power but as far as cell towers are concerned, man these prove cancerous if exposed for long time.

ash7979

Its something surprising me that you dont know this, as quite many builders in Pune are using this trick in Pune....i.e. selling top terrace to top floor penthouse..This is a fraud in legal sense, as how come you can sell common terrace to one buyer,as this terrace should be a common terrace to all the flat owners...You said the PBAP is the organization which you are also members, dont you ppls discuss these malpractices,like above one & like charging different loading varies from 20% to as hight as 30% & in that also some builders do reverse calculation like say you have 1000 built up so by 30% loading your carpet is 700 sq ft...But actually by calculating it in right way...total built up should be 910 sq ft (700+30% of 700 that is 210)....charging terrace from 50% to 100% etc...Why PABP dont think these things, when all these builders are very well members of PABP...Is PABP is organization to safeguard ONLY these Fraud builders not Buyers

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-Ashish