After decades of legal practice in property transactions, patterns become visible with a clarity that individual cases never provide on their own.
Dr. Sravan Kumar, Founder of Aneesh Associates with fourteen years of experience in legal practice and author of The Indian Law of Property Due Diligence and Title Examination, has observed those patterns across individual transactions, disputed properties, title examinations, and the cases that arrive in litigation because due diligence was not properly conducted before completion.
The pattern that appears most consistently is not the most technically complex one. It is the simplest and the most preventable.
Buyers who paid before verifying.
What the sequence of a property transaction should be:
The transfer of substantial consideration should follow the verification of title, not precede it. The legal examination should establish whether the seller holds marketable title before any meaningful advance changes hands. The conditions precedent that the agreement specifies should be satisfied before completion proceeds.
This is the sequence that structured due diligence makes possible. Every stage of payment is tied to a verified legal condition: the title examination is complete, the encumbrances are clear, the statutory approvals are confirmed, the court records show no pending litigation, and the public records are consistent with the title documents.
When payment precedes verification, the buyer’s leverage disappears. They have paid. The seller has the money. The legal examination that follows will reveal what it reveals, and the buyer’s recourse if something is wrong is litigation rather than a decision not to proceed.
What buyers who read this book are positioned to do differently:
A buyer who understands that registration does not verify title will insist on a proper title examination before signing anything.
A buyer who understands constructive notice will obtain and examine the Encumbrance Certificate and conduct a CERSAI search before paying an advance.
A buyer who understands lis pendens will ensure that court records for the relevant jurisdictions are searched before completion.
A buyer who understands the GPA transaction risk will insist on a complete registered chain of title and refuse to proceed where the chain passes through an unregistered GPA sale.
These are not sophisticated legal maneuvers. They are the basic steps that structured property due diligence requires. This book makes them accessible to every property buyer who reads it.
The Indian Law of Property Due Diligence and Title Examination by Dr. Sravan Kumar is available on Amazon, Flipkart, Kindle, and Google Books. Buy now and approach your next property transaction from the position of knowledge rather than assumption.
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