NRI Property Management in Delhi

NRI property management in Delhi is the running of a non-resident owner's flat by a local team: tenant search, the rent agreement and its registration, rent collection, police verification, repairs, and tax records. 66 MG Road runs full management today with its own teams in Delhi NCR and Bangalore, and Delhi proper sits inside that footprint. This page lays out the Delhi market, the rules, and what to put in place now, with the rent snapshot and the free tools below.

What managing a Delhi flat takes

Delhi has the widest spread of rents in India. A 1BHK in Greater Kailash is worth twice one in Rohini, and the paperwork is the same for both.

1. A written agreement, stamped to the right value. Most Delhi tenancies run on an 11-month leave-and-license or rent agreement on e-stamp paper. Eleven months is not a loophole, it is a deliberate line: an agreement of twelve months or more must be registered under Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908, and most owners keep below it.
2. The stamp value that matches the term. A short agreement under one year carries a nominal e-stamp. An agreement of one to five years attracts stamp duty of about 2% of the average annual rent. Get this wrong and the document is weak the day you need it.
3. Tenant police verification. Delhi Police require the landlord to submit tenant details for verification. It is the owner's duty, not the tenant's, and the form is filed with the local station or online.
4. Society and RWA formalities. Many colonies and apartment complexes ask for a tenant intimation and a copy of the agreement before move-in.
5. The municipal and utility trail. House tax with the MCD, electricity with BSES or Tata Power, water with the DJB. Late dues compound, and from abroad they go unnoticed.

Where NRI owners lose money in Delhi

• The 11-month reset gets skipped. An agreement runs out, the tenant stays on, and there is no fresh registered or stamped paper. In a dispute the owner is the one holding nothing.
• Police verification never happens. The owner does not know it is their job. A problem tenant then has no record on file.
• The relative manages it, then stops. The flat in Saket becomes a subject the family avoids. Rent slips, dues build.
• Repairs are billed without proof. No dated photos, no receipts, the same job paid twice.
• The Delhi Rent Control Act surprises the owner. Older tenancies below a low rent threshold fall under the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, where eviction and rent revision are hard. New market tenancies sit outside it through the 11-month structure, but owners who inherit an old tenancy learn this late.

How we run a Delhi property

Delhi NCR is one of the two markets we run full management in. The other is Bangalore. That means a named manager on the ground who can stand in a Delhi society office the same week you ask, rather than a coordinator in another city promising to call someone.

On 27 August 2026 we cut full management from six cities to two. Care and Care+ take your keys, a narrow power of attorney, and your rent, and they hold all three for as long as you stay. Spread that across six markets and a family's asset goes missing. Concentrate it in two and a record gets built instead. Delhi NCR is one of the two we kept, because it is one of the two largest NRI-owned residential markets we already touch and the Gurgaon team gives NCR a running start rather than a cold one.

Everywhere else in India we run the ₹20,000 Property Health Check and Watch through vetted local surveyors, because neither takes keys, a power of attorney, or money. No third full-management market opens until Delhi NCR or Bangalore clears 20 properties per city manager. That is a number, not a date.

What being one of the two markets buys you

• One named manager, in Delhi, who shows the flat, meets the tenant, and signs under your narrow power of attorney. Not a call centre and not a rotating queue. One person you can name.
• Key custody on the record, with every handover photographed and dated, so the question of who held the keys and when has a written answer.
• Rent into your NRO account, reconciled against the lease and against the TDS your tenant deducted, so your India return and your return where you live both start from the same clean numbers.
• The 11-month reset tracked and executed before it lapses, on the right e-stamp value, so you are never the owner holding nothing in a dispute.
• Tenant police verification filed with the local station and the acknowledgement stored, because that duty is the owner's and most owners abroad never learn it.
• MCD house tax, BSES or Tata Power, and DJB water paid on time and filed, so dues never compound out of sight.
• Vendor work at actuals with the receipt attached to the line item, and a before-and-after photograph of the job.

The pricing is public, and the way we work is set out across our services. Tell us about your Delhi flat through a proposal request.

FAQ

Do I need to register an 11-month rent agreement in Delhi? No. Registration becomes mandatory at a term of twelve months or more under the Registration Act, 1908. An 11-month agreement on the correct e-stamp paper, signed and notarised, is the standard market practice in Delhi.

Whose job is tenant police verification in Delhi? The landlord's. Delhi Police require the owner to submit the tenant's details for verification, at the local station or online. A managed property has this filed and stored.

What stamp duty applies to a Delhi rent agreement? A short agreement under one year carries a nominal e-stamp value. An agreement of one to five years attracts stamp duty of about 2% of the average annual rent. Our stamp duty calculator gives the figure for your numbers.

Does 66 MG Road manage property in Delhi today? Yes. Delhi NCR is one of the two cities we run property in, alongside Bangalore, and Delhi proper sits inside that footprint. Send your property details and we will come back with a named manager and a price.

My flat is not in Delhi NCR or Bangalore. What can you do? The Property Health Check and Watch, run by a vetted local surveyor, anywhere in India. One visit, dated photographs, the boundary, the Encumbrance Certificate pulled and read, occupancy verified in person, and a written risk report ranked by what costs you most. Neither takes your keys, your power of attorney, or your rent, which is why both run outside the two markets where full management does.

Why did you cut from six cities to two? Because the part that goes wrong is custody. A survey is bounded: a surveyor visits once, photographs what is there, and leaves holding nothing of yours. Care and Care+ hold keys, a power of attorney, and your rent for as long as you stay. We would rather run that to a standard in two markets than fail at it in six. The gate on a third is 20 properties per city manager in Delhi NCR or Bangalore.

Can I rent out my Delhi flat while living abroad? Yes, with three pieces in place: rent landing in an NRO account, a narrow power of attorney for someone to sign and represent, and a clean paper trail for tax. Our guide on managing tenants from abroad walks through each.

Saurabh Garg, founder, 66 MG Road

Sources

• Registration Act, 1908 (Section 17), India Code: https://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/2249
• Delhi Police, tenant verification (citizen services): https://www.delhipolice.gov.in/
• How to register a rent agreement in Delhi, NoBroker: https://www.nobroker.in/blog/how-to-register-rent-agreement-in-delhi/
• Stamp duty on a Delhi rent agreement, DigiLawyer: https://digilawyer.ai/blogs/stamp-duty-on-rent-agreement-in-delhi