Glossary

A municipal property-account classification commonly associated with properties recorded for BBMP tax and civic administration.

An informal label commonly used for properties recorded in a separate municipal register because of specified irregularities.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Bengaluru’s municipal corporation.

Bangalore Development Authority, a planning and development authority for Bengaluru.

Charges a civic body may levy for infrastructure improvements or regularisation processes.

Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority, responsible for planning across the wider metropolitan region.

Permission to convert agricultural land for a specified non-agricultural use.

A digitally issued or maintained khata record; the exact process and meaning depend on the authority and current rules.

A record of specified registered transactions affecting a property during a selected period.

General Power of Attorney, a legal authorisation allowing one person to act for another within stated powers.

The government-notified benchmark value used when calculating stamp duty and registration charges.

Approval of a plotted layout plan by the authority legally empowered to sanction it.

The price buyers and sellers may agree in the market; it can differ from guidance value.

A document or title-chain record used to trace how ownership moved over time.

Updating revenue or municipal records after an ownership change; it is not, by itself, proof of title.

A fee paid to register an eligible property document with the registration authority.

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act and the regulatory authorities constituted under it.

A Karnataka land-revenue record containing cultivation, possession and land details.

The registered instrument through which ownership is transferred from seller to buyer.

A state levy payable on specified legal instruments, including property transfers.

An identifier used in land records to distinguish a parcel or part of a parcel.