An agreement to sell can be registered once the developer gets permissions, such as commencement certificates and sanctions for the project plan

2) it is compulsory to register an agreement to sell with the sub-registrar and pay the relevant stamp duty if the developer takes more than a fifth of the total cost of the flat.

3) in your case since more than 26 per cent consideration had been paid agreement for sale requires registration

3) Paying stamp duty and registering the agreement will also prevent the realtor from re-selling the house to someone else

4) fittings and furnishing can form part of the agreement

1. Have you purchased the said flat or just booked it by paying 26% of its price?

2. In normal case, the developer and the buyer enters in to an agreement for sale of the said booked flat which should be registered to have legally enforceable value,

3. Agreement for sale is generally registered when even the first brick has not been laid, leave aside completion of construction of the property. This is the agreement where in both the parties agree to sell and buy the property at a price fixed and at mutually acceptable terms.

4. Get the agreement of sale executed and do not pay any further unless the same is executed,

5. Property is not registered but the title deed only is registered. In your case the agreement vfor sale and finally the sale deed shall have to be registered,

6. Details of the property which you are going to buy shall have to be mentioned in the Agreement for Sale including the specification of the bath room fittings, tiles etc.

1 The sake agreement is though preferred to be registered , need not be registered.

2. Only on payment of full consideration money you can register the final deed of sale.

3. However if you register the sale agreement of stamp duty on market price of the proeprty , at the time of registration of final sale deed you need not pay stamp duty once again though you will have to pay registration fees once again.

4. The fittings and fixtures are not required to be mentioned at all in sale deed though it can be mentioned in sale agreement.

5. The sale agreement must bear details of the those fittings and fixtures.

For all the practical purpose, a registered sale agreement shall be held as a valid document.

Any claim or litigation i future in this regard cannot be challenged on the basis of an unregistered document.

The stamp duty cannot be recovered from the government but the property itself will be at stake when there is some serious issue on it at a later stage.

Any agreement relating to the immovable property and transfers of the same are to be registered as per Maharashtra laws.

You have to get everything mentioned in the sale agreement as the conditions of sale agreement between you and the builder.

What you require is an agreement to sell with the developer, which you should have ideally made at the time of or before remitting the advance to him, not a sale deed. The agreement to sell does not have to be registered, so there is no question of payment of stamp duty. You are being grossly misled on purpose.