Casagrand Regal

Casagrand Regal has no street address published by the developer beyond the Nagavara locality, so start by asking the seller for the exact plot location and visit it. Nagavara is an established part of north Bengaluru, which means the roads, bus routes and shops around the site are already there rather than promised for later. What you need to test is your own daily journey.

Drive from the site to your office at the hour you would actually leave, and again for the evening return. A 72-home community adds little traffic of its own, so the approach road and its junctions at peak hours will decide how the location feels. Walk the lanes around the plot in the evening too. An established locality is livelier than a fresh suburb, and noise from a main road reaches the lower floors first.

Since the project is still under construction, ask the seller how far the surrounding road works and utility connections have progressed and what the site looks like today. The developer has not published distances to any school, hospital or station, so treat any figure a seller quotes as something to check on the ground with your own odometer, not as a fact.

Casagrand Regal has published only one plan: a 3 BHK of about 1,684 sq ft built-up. Carpet area has not been published, so ask for the plan attached to the seller's agreement and work out the usable area from it. Casagrand has not said whether 2 BHK or larger layouts were ever offered, so if a seller has a different plan, ask to see the agreement it appears in.

There is no published price. All the homes have been sold and the project is still under construction. What you pay is the seller's booking price plus whatever premium you negotiate, and then the remaining instalments to Casagrand. Because the home is not complete, GST is payable on the construction instalments still due. Stamp duty and registration fall on the full value when the sale deed is registered.

Before you agree a figure, ask the seller and the developer for a cost sheet that shows:

• Base price in the seller's original agreement
• Amount already paid to Casagrand, with receipts
• Instalments still due and the milestones they are tied to
• Developer's transfer or endorsement fee
• Car parking and whether it is included
• GST on the balance construction, as its own line
• Stamp duty and registration on the full consideration
• Maintenance deposit and clubhouse charges at handover

Casagrand Regal is registered with Karnataka RERA as PRM/KA/RERA/1251/446/PR/280324/006768. Open the entry on the Karnataka RERA website (rera.karnataka.gov.in) before you pay a token. It shows the promoter, the sanctioned plan, the declared completion date and the quarterly progress the developer has filed, which is your best check on the stage of construction.

Since you would be buying from an existing purchaser of an unfinished home, ask the seller for:

• Their agreement for sale with Casagrand, with the payment schedule
• Receipts for every instalment paid so far
• Developer's no-objection or endorsement letter for the transfer
• Allotment letter showing tower, floor and unit number
• Approved building plan and the RERA certificate
• Title documents and an encumbrance certificate for the 1.43 acres

At handover, insist on the occupancy certificate for the block before you take keys. The sale deed is then registered in your name, and the khata is transferred to you. If the seller has a home loan, the bank's closure letter and the original documents it holds must be part of the transaction. Nothing on this list is optional in a resale of an under-construction flat.

Casagrand Regal is a compact site of 1.43 acres with 72 homes, where the shared spaces are a short walk from every door. Casagrand has not published the tower count, the floor count or the share of open ground, so ask the seller for the sanctioned plan and see how much of the plot is built on. Everything you are shown is a render as planned by the developer until construction finishes.

A weekday morning could begin in the aerobics and yoga zone or with a session in the gymnasium, with the outdoor gym as the open-air alternative on a fine day. Children get a play area and a kids' pool, and the half basketball court gives teenagers somewhere to burn energy after school. Evenings are for the board games room, the table tennis and the billiards table, or a performance at the amphitheatre. The multipurpose hall handles birthdays, meetings and festivals.

With 72 households sharing these spaces, the facilities will feel less crowded than in a large township, but the maintenance bill is also split among fewer homes. Ask the seller what monthly charge Casagrand has indicated, and confirm which facilities are due at handover and which follow later.