Tag: Real Estate
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Unity in Distress: Intra-Class Distinctions Among Homebuyers in Real Estate Insolvency
[Anushka Aggarwal is a third-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru] The 2018 amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) marked a significant evolution, granting the status of financial creditors to homebuyers. As real estate insolvency cases continue to burden the courts, the question of whether homebuyers a class, united
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Who is a Consumer? Parallel Proceedings under RERA and CPA
[Varda Saxena is a 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat] Section 2(7) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“CPA“) mandates that a person who obtains goods for commercial purposes is not a consumer. This means that a person who obtains goods for reasons other than the sustenance of their livelihood
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Fractional Ownership: Recommendations for Regulation
[Malavika Devaya is an Associate at Poovayya & Co., Bengaluru] Myre Capital, a fractional ownership platform by Morphogenesis, recently made headlines by raising INR 50 crores for its offering of the integrated township Magarpatta Cybercity. A concept that is fast gaining popularity in India but has been around in developed countries for a while now,
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Straining Conceptual Consistency: Home Buyers as Financial Creditors
[M P Ram Mohan is Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Vishakha Raj a Research Associate, Strategy Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. This post is based on the authors’ article Apartment Buyers as Financial Creditors: Pushing the Conceptual Limits of the Indian Insolvency Regime published in the Columbia Journal of Asian Law]
