Guides for NRI property owners

Practical, India-specific guides for owning and managing property from abroad: power of attorney, TDS and Form 15CA/15CB, repatriation, rental-income tax, buying, selling, and inheritance. Written for NRIs in Singapore, Dubai, the US, and the UK.

Guides

• Apostille and Consulate Attestation for India Property Documents: The Full Gauntlet
• Australian Tax on Rental Income From India
• Can a General Power of Attorney Transfer Property Title in India?
• Can an NRI Buy Agricultural Land in India?
• Capital Gains Tax on Inherited Property in India for NRIs
• Capital Gains Tax for NRIs on Property: The Post-2024 Regime
• Co-Heir Deadlock: Selling Inherited Property in India When One Sibling Will Not Sign
• Delhi's 39 Sub-Registrar Offices, and Which One Registers Your Deed
• Tenant Police Verification Documents Checklist for NRI Owners
• DTAA Between India and UAE: What It Means for Property Owners
• DTAA Between India and UK: What It Means for Property Owners
• DTAA Between India and USA: What It Means for Property Owners
• Encroachment on NRI Property in India: What to Do in the First Week
• Form 15CA and 15CB: The Remittance Paperwork, Now Forms 145 and 146
• The GST Rent Scam: How Fake Tenants Register Bogus GST at Your Address (and How to Block It)
• How Often Should an NRI Inspect Their Property in India
• How to Evict a Tenant in India as an NRI (When They Refuse to Vacate)
• How to Verify a Property Manager in India Before You Hand Over the Keys
• Inheriting Property in India as an NRI: From Death Certificate to Money in Your Account
• Is a relative mismanaging your India property?
• Legal Due Diligence Before an NRI Buys Property in India
• Lower TDS Certificate for NRI Property Sale: How Form 13 (Now Form 128) Stops the Over-Deduction
• Manage Your India Property Without Power of Attorney
• NRI Rental Property Management: The Honest Operating Guide
• Moving Back to India: The Property Checklist Nobody Hands You
• NRIs Buying Property in India: The Rules, the Money, the Paperwork
• Buying Property in a Parent's Name as an NRI: The Benami Trap
• How Much Home Loan Can an NRI Get in India
• How Long Can an NRI Home Loan Run in India
• POA misuse in India: the clauses that stop it
• What Changed in 2026 for NRIs Who Own or Sell Property in India
• The NRI Property Scam Checklist: Twelve Checks That Close the Gaps
• Income Tax for NRIs in India: How Rental Income Is Taxed
• Under-Construction Property and Builder Delays: How NRIs File RERA Complaints From Abroad
• NRI Residential Status and RNOR: The Day-Count Rules
• NRI Selling Property in India: The Complete 2026 Guide
• How an NRI Claims the TDS Refund After Selling Property in India
• NRI Estate Planning for India Property: Write the Will Before Your Family Needs It
• Is an NRO Account Taxable? What Happens to Rent Inside It
• Packers and Movers To and From India: What It Costs, What Customs Allows, and Where the Liability Stops
• PAN for NRI Property Transactions: When You Need It and How to Get One
• AMC property tax in Ahmedabad, for an owner living abroad
• Paying Bengaluru Property Tax From Abroad, 2026-27
• BDA Property Tax Online, 2026-27
• Property tax in Hyderabad, 2026-27, paid from abroad
• How to Pay India Property Tax From Abroad
• MCGM property tax in Mumbai, 2026-27
• Pune property tax 2026-27, PMC and PCMC
• What Happens If You Skip Tenant Police Verification: The Real Penalty
• Property Management POA for India: Every Clause, Annotated
• Power of Attorney at the Indian Consulate, San Francisco: Process, Fees, Checklist
• Power of Attorney at the Indian Consulate, Houston: Process, Fees, Checklist
• Police Verification of Tenants in Bangalore: NRI Guide
• Police Verification of Tenants in Hyderabad: NRI Guide
• Tenant police verification for NRI landlords
• Power of Attorney from Australia to India: The Complete Process
• Power of Attorney from the UAE or Singapore to India
• Power of Attorney from the UK to India: Notary, Apostille, or High Commission
• Power of Attorney from USA to India: The Complete Process
• When a Power of Attorney Is Misused: How NRIs Detect, Revoke, and Recover
• Property Fraud Against NRIs in India: How to Check Your Own Title
• Renting Out Your India Flat From Singapore or Dubai
• Repatriating Property Sale Proceeds from an NRO Account
• How to Revoke a Power of Attorney from Abroad: The India Process for NRIs
• How an NRI Legally Saves Capital-Gains Tax on India Property
• How to Sell Your India Property Without Visiting India
• Sell Property in India From Dubai: The Full Process
• Sell Property in India From Singapore
• Sell Property in India from the USA: The Complete Process
• Society Dues, Property Tax, and Khata: The Remote Owner's Bill Stack
• Succession Certificate vs Legal Heir Certificate vs Probate: Which One an NRI Needs
• Buying Property From an NRI Seller: The TDS the Buyer Must Handle (Form 141 or Form 144)
• TDS on Rent Paid to an NRI Landlord: 31.2%, No Threshold, and the Form 128 Fix
• TDS on Sale of Property by an NRI: How Much the Buyer Deducts, and the Form 128 Fix
• What It Really Costs, and How Long It Takes, for an NRI to Sell Property in India
• US Tax on Rental Income From India: How to File It Every Year
• Best NRI Property Management Companies in Bangalore: A Comparison You Can Check
• NRI Property Management in Chennai: A Comparison You Can Check
• NRI Property Management in Delhi NCR and Gurgaon: A Comparison You Can Check
• Best NRI Property Management Companies in Hyderabad: A Comparison You Can Check
• The NRI Property Management Companies in India: A Comparison You Can Check
• NRI Property Management Companies in Mumbai: A Comparison You Can Check
• NRI Property Management Companies in Pune: A Comparison You Can Check
• Best NRI Tax Filing Services for Indian Rental Income: A Comparison You Can Check
• Best Power of Attorney Services for NRI Property: A Comparison You Can Check
• The Best Portals to Rent Out Your India Flat as an NRI: A Comparison You Can Check
• Best Property Inspection Services in India: A Comparison You Can Check
• The Best Rent Collection Services for NRI Landlords: What Actually Works From Abroad
• The Best Tenant Verification Services in India: A Comparison You Can Check
• CURA vs PropTech Solutions vs NRIWAY: Three NRI Options, Compared
• Housewise Alternatives for NRI Landlords
• Housewise vs 66 MG Road: Two Ways to Run an NRI's Flat
• How to Choose a CA Who Handles NRI Returns
• Leaving the UK for the UAE: What UK Tax Still Follows You
• Manage an India Flat Without Handing Over the Keys
• Manage Your India Property Without Visiting India
• NestAway NRI Property Management Review: What the Page Promises and What It Leaves Out
• NoBroker Alternatives for NRI Landlords
• NoBroker NRI Services Review: What the Pages Promise and What They Leave Out
• NoBroker vs 66 MG Road: Marketplace Scale or a Bill You Can Audit
• NoBroker vs Housewise for NRI Property Management: A Comparison You Can Check
• NoBroker vs Housewise vs 66 MG Road vs a Local Broker: The Full Comparison
• Karnataka Gets Three Years to Reopen Your Record, Not Forty
• Karnataka Opens a B-Khata to A-Khata Route in Towns and Villages, Until 31 December 2027
• The Corporation's Name Went on the Property Card in 1968. On 22 September 2026 the Bombay High Court Ordered It Replaced.
• Long Possession Is Not Adverse Possession: the Supreme Court, 10 September 2026
• CBDT Moves the Audit-Case Return Date to 21 November 2026. Most NRI Owners Are Not in That Group
• ₹44 Lakh in Cash for a Bangalore Flat: ITAT Sends the Tax Addition Back, Because the Proof Came Too Late
• Bengaluru Halves What the BDA Charges to Allot Land With a House on It, and Sets Two Years Before Eviction
• A Caretaker Who Stayed Thirty Years Owns Nothing. The Delhi High Court Said So on 22 September.
• Your Co-Heirs Get First Refusal Before You Sell an Inherited Share
• The Cost Inflation Index for 2026-27 Is 384. For an NRI Selling Property, It Changes Nothing
• Delhi's Registration Map Now Follows Its Revenue Map: 13 Districts, 39 Sub-Registrar Offices
• NRI Property & Tax Glossary: 100+ Terms A-Z | 66 MG Road
• Six Ways an NRI Can Run a Flat in India
• 66 MG Road Is Becoming a Self-Service Platform
• The FEMA Non-Debt Rules Changed in June 2026: Here Is What It Does Not Touch
• Home Sales Fell 6% in Q2 2026 While Builders Launched More: Anarock
• The Buyer's TAN Exemption Starts on 1 October. The Form Is Now Notified: Form 141.
• Delhi High Court: Heirs Who Inherit a Tenanted Shop Need Only a Better Title Than the Tenant
• What NRI Property Management Costs in India: The Four Models and What Hides in Each
• NRI Property Scams in India: The Frauds and How to Spot Each Early
• Property Management Company vs a Broker: What an NRI Actually Needs
• Property Management Pricing Models Compared: What You Actually Pay
• Property Manager vs a Relative: Who Should Run Your India Flat?
• The 2% B-Khata Conversion Window Has Closed. It Is 5% Now
• India Has a Five-Year Plan to Put Every Land Parcel on One Number
• India Sold 1.71 Lakh Homes in H1 2026 and Prices Rose Anyway
• Maharashtra Holds Ready Reckoner Rates Flat for 2026-27: No Hike for Mumbai or Pune
• A US-Based NRI Was Taxed on His Whole Ahmedabad Flat Without a Hearing. The Tribunal Has Sent It Back.
• From Melbourne, He Claimed a Chennai Property by Adverse Possession. The Madras High Court Refused Him an Injunction.
• A Flat Bought in the Wife's and Mother-in-Law's Names Stays Theirs, the Delhi High Court Said on 24 September
• His Father Let a Man Into His Chennai Flat in 2022. From California, He Asked for Rs 1 Lakh a Month. The Madras High Court Said Not Yet.
• A Family Held a Sale Deed, a Will and a Partition Deed. The Land Had Been Acquired in 1959. The Delhi High Court Said None of It Helps.
• He Bought a Delhi Society Flat on a GPA in 1998. The Registrar Says the Seller Was Never a Member. The Delhi High Court Has Sent It Back.
• NRI Deposits Took In $33.5 Billion in July 2026, Against $1.0 Billion a Year Earlier
• The FCNR(B) Window Closed on 31 August 2026, a Month Before the Date Everyone Was Quoting
• A Builder Could Cancel a Flat Booking Over Unpaid Stamp Duty, but Must Refund It All, the Bombay High Court Said on 23 September
• A Pending Title Case Will Not Stop the Sealing of a Residential Flat Used as a Business, the Supreme Court Says
• An NRI Sold His Thane Flat Ten Days After Registration. The Tax Tribunal Said He Had Held It Since 2011.
• CBDT opens a foreign asset disclosure window, and returning NRIs sit inside it
• An Unregistered Agreement to Sell Still Gets You to Court. The Stamp Duty Gets There First
• Heirs Living Abroad Cannot Be Turned Away for Lack of a Local Address, Kerala High Court Tells a Village Officer
• A Widow's Share Became Hers Outright Without a Partition, the Supreme Court Said on 22 September
• The RBI Has Rewritten Loan Recovery. If an EMI on Your India Flat Bounces, These Are the New Limits
• He Said He Was in the US and Never Got the Summons. The Madras High Court Said That Argument Was Already Lost.
• Assessment Year Is Gone: the Income-tax Act 2025 Is Now Live
• One Heir Cannot Sell the Whole Inherited Flat: the Supreme Court Draws the Line
• An NRI Sold Inherited Land for ₹35 Crore. ITAT Chennai Kept Her Valuer's 2001 Figure Over the Department's
• ITAT Mumbai Sends Back a Tax Bill That Gave an NRI's Inherited Land a Cost of Zero
• The 31 August ITR Deadline Is Not Yours. As an NRI, You File by 31 July 2026
• One NRI Filing Deadline Has Passed. The Other Is 31 August
• NRI Income-Tax Filing for 2025-26: ITR-2, 31 July 2026, and What Actually Changed
• Three Months From the Award, Not From the Day You Heard: the Supreme Court on Section 28A
• The Tenants Said He Lived Abroad and Did Not Need the Building. The Patna High Court Upheld His Eviction Decree.
• A Tenant Said the Owner's Husband Promised It the Flat for Ever. The Delhi High Court Said That Needs a Registered Deed.
• A Tenant Bank Left a Shop Without Power. The Landlord Sued for Five Years of Lost Rent and Got Nothing.
• TCS on Money Sent Abroad Drops to 2% From 1 April 2026
• One Building, One Society: the Bombay High Court Cancels a Breakaway in Prabhadevi
• Bombay High Court: Your Society's Share of the Land Is Fixed When Conveyance Falls Due
• A Mumbai Society Built Extra Floors for Its Members. Four of the New Flats Went to the Contractor. The Bombay High Court Took Two Back.
• Your Name Off the Revenue Record Does Not Take Your Title With It
• RBI Closes the Last Leg of the NRE and FCNR Deposit Push
• RBI Ended the NRE and FCNR(B) Rate Holiday a Month Early, on 31 August 2026
• RBI Doubles the NRI Equity Investment Limit to 10% From 5 June 2026
• A Consulate Stamp on Your Power of Attorney Is Not Registration
• An NRI in the US Let His Brother Sell His Madurai Land Under a POA. He Sued the Brother's Widow in 2011. The Madras High Court Said He Waited Too Long.
• An Owner's Suit Against His POA Holder's Sale Goes Back to Trial, the Supreme Court Said on 21 September
• Buying From an NRI Gets Simpler: No TAN Needed From 1 October 2026
• An NRI Sold a Property and Filed No Return. ITAT Chennai Deleted the 200% Penalty, Because the Notice Named No Charge
• Your NRI Property Tax Forms Were Renumbered: Form 128 and Form 144 in 2026
• A Buyer Got TDS Wrong on a Property Deal. In Two ITAT Orders, the Seller's Form 26A Decided the Outcome.
• The Registered Valuer Update Date Moves to 31 March 2027
• A Lease Sat With the Collector of Stamps for Eight Years. The Bombay High Court Says the Registration Clock Did Not Run.
• New Forms for Sending Money Abroad: 145 and 146 Replace 15CA and 15CB
• Register the Sale Deed and the Sale Is Done, Even If the Buyer Still Owes You
• A Report Says 46% of NRI Owners Want to Sell Now. Read the Sample Before You Read the Number
• The Board Notified the Form. From 1 October Your Buyer Reports the Purchase on Form 141.
• A Singapore Owner's Attorney Sold His Pudukkottai Building in 1999. The Occupiers Called It Forgery. The Madras High Court Upheld the Sale.
• The Supreme Court Struck Down One Will and Upheld Another Within Seven Weeks. The Line Between Them Matters.
• You Agree to Sell the Flat to Your Tenant. The Supreme Court Says He Is Still Your Tenant
• More NRI Money Is Reaching India. Less of It Is Sitting in an NRI Deposit
• Living in the UK Does Not Shut an Heir Out of Her Father's Delhi House, High Court Says
• The Supreme Court Has Put Every Capital City's Building Department on the Clock
• A New York Grandson Sued for His Share of 44 Pusa Road. The Delhi High Court Sent the Family Deal to Trial.
• PCMC Gives 4% Off Property Tax Paid Online Until the End of September 2026
• Rent Out Your India Flat Without a Broker
• What a Broker Should Prove Before You Let Them Sell Your Flat
• What Verified Means on 66 MG Road, and What It Does Not
• Why NRIs Don't Trust Property Managers in India. They Are Right Not To.
• E-khata in Bengaluru, for owners living abroad
• Khata, Mutation, and Title Clean-up for Remote Owners: Why a Pending Record Blocks Your Sale
• Decades on Your Land Do Not Make Someone Its Owner
• A Father Sold Two Plots of Ancestral Land in 1993. His Widow and Sons Sued. The Supreme Court Upheld the Sale.
• BDA Land Allotment: 90 Days to Apply From 17 September 2026, 180 Days to Pay
• A Canada Co-Owner's Two Attorneys Lodged Two Sale Deeds. The Delhi High Court Let the Buyer's Suit Run.
• A Brother Abroad Wanted the Family House Sold at Today's Price. The Madras High Court Threw Out the 2022 Valuation.
• Delhi Opens SUNIYO 2.0: Pay Eight Years of Property Tax and MCD Waives Everything Older
• The Empty-Flat Problem: What an NRI Flat Left Vacant Costs
• How to Protect Vacant Property in India from Encroachment: The Prevention Checklist
• Pune Owners Gave PMC Their DP Road Land in 2016 for TDR. In 2026 They Asked for Cash. The Bombay High Court Said the 2016 Receipt Binds Them.
• RBI Raises the Repo Rate to 5.50%: What It Means for an NRI Home Loan
• RBI Holds the Repo Rate at 5.25%: What It Means for NRI Home-Loan Borrowers
• A Tenant's Unregistered 2005 Agreement Could Not Change Her Registered 1977 Lease, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Held
• ZiffyHomes Wrote Down What It Learned. Five Lessons for Anyone Choosing Who Manages Their Flat

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