Broker takes homebuyer, developer to MahaRERA, gets snubbed

With establishment of Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) in each state, many aspects related to real estate, homebuyers and brokers are coming to the fore. In a recent case in Mumbai, one real estate broker filed a case with Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) against a homebuyer and a developer saying he wasn’t paid his fees. 
 
The MahaRERA dismissed the case as the developer submitted that the agent wasn’t registered as far as the project is concerned, said a DNA report, adding that the real estate authority concluded that the agent failed to act on behalf of the developer while booking the flat for the homebuyer.
 
According to the report, Paras Savla, a registered real estate agent, sought direction from MahaRERA that home buyer Rakesh Agrawal should pay the brokerage in respect of booking a flat in a building named Rudra at Kandivali east. 
 
Savla had reportedly filed the complaint against Agrawal for payment of brokerage fees in Shree DPS Project and Services, stating that he was seeking brokerage only from Agrawal and not from Shree DPS Project and Services--the developer. Savla had reportedly submitted that Agrawal was under contractual obligation to pay brokerage.
 
The developer told MahaRERA that the complainant was not a registered as real estate agent in the project, Rudra, therefore, he did not appoint him as a broker while booking of the flat by Agrawal. 
 
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The developer, said the report, further clarified that the dispute between Savla and Agrawal are civil in nature, and there is no violation of any provisions of RERA Act.