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Before buying a home, verify the seller's title and mother deed, trace the chain of ownership, pull an independent encumbrance certificate, and check the khata, tax dues and approved plan. Here is a Bengaluru buyer's legal due diligence checklist.

A fixed home loan rate keeps your instalment constant, while a floating rate tracks a benchmark like the repo rate and can rise or fall. Here are the trade-offs between certainty and flexibility, and how a Bengaluru buyer can choose the right structure.

A home loan carries more than interest: a processing fee of roughly 0.25 to 2 percent, legal and technical charges, a title deed deposit charge and 18 percent tax, with no prepayment penalty on floating rate loans. Here is how to compare offers on total cost.

FSI and FAR are two names for the same metric, the ratio of a building's built up area to its plot area, which decides how much can be built. Here is how FSI is set in Bangalore, what affects it, and why it matters to a home buyer.

A home loan sanction is the lender's approval of an amount, while disbursement is the later release of funds, in full for a ready home or staged for one under construction. Here is how the two differ, the pre-disbursement checks, and when your EMI starts.

If a builder has not honoured its obligations, a Bengaluru buyer can file a complaint with the Karnataka real estate regulator online for a 1,000 rupee fee. Here is when you can complain, how to file, the documents you need, and what happens after.