The Supreme Court has upheld a husband's Will, which disinherited his wife and children from certain properties, favouring his sister. The ...

States are rapidly digitizing land records to streamline India's complex property market. This move aims to curb disputes, speed up transac...

The Supreme Court has shielded an innocent land buyer from criminal charges in a forged Will case. The buyer, unaware of the forgery, purch...

Indians face a choice between traditional bank lockers and the government's DigiLocker for important documents. While DigiLocker offers con...

Indian-origin businessman and founder of Cantor V Group, Mahender Makhijani, is facing a $100 million fraud investigation in California. Pr...

India’s locker economy is booming amid rising gold prices and household wealth. While banks remain the preferred repository, private vault ...

Three tenants in Gurgaon faced eviction from their rented flat. They claim to have lost ₹70,000 after paying rent and a security deposit to...

The Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UPRERA) has issued a crucial advisory for homebuyers, detailing six essential checks be...

The Supreme Court has asked for a response from Priya Kapur, wife of late industrialist Sunjay Kapur, and others. This follows a lawsuit fi...

A Supreme Court ruling in 2025 favored a land buyer who was defrauded by a seller concealing an existing mortgage. The court affirmed that ...

A Kerala High Court ruling clarifies that a settlement deed holds legal power over a Will. Even if children are excluded from family proper...

Some state governments have made it mandatory to register equitable mortgages by filing a notice of intimation of an equitable mortgage wit...

A centralised electronic registry of property titles can curb the menace.

A central registry system should certainly help check home loan fraud.

The system of registration of properties will in some time be replaced by a titling system to reduce frauds. Earlier this year, the Delhi G...

The risk emanating from defective property titles may soon get mitigated, with the National Housing Bank (NHB) planning to put in place a m...

In ‘05-06, commercial banks reported 13,914 cases of frauds, involving a sum of Rs 1,381 crore.