Part 1
Narrative — read top to bottom for the full picture
§1
Land Title
F — Fundamentals
Leasehold to 2079 — and the marketing never says so
The land is MHADA-leased: an MHB → MHADA → Shivaji Nagar Shiv-Kiran CHS chain on a 99-year lease from 1 April 1980, expiring 31 March 2079. Sugee Developers holds development rights only, via DA BBE-3-11749/2019. A flat bought in 2025 therefore has roughly 51 years to lease maturity, with a renewal-premium precedent of 25–60% of the Worli ready-reckoner rate ultimately falling on the future society. Advocate Ashwini R. Patil's February 2023 title certificate concludes the title is clean on a 35-year search — but it does not state the 2079 expiry, does not quantify the renewal premium, and now sits ~2.5 years stale against the July 2025 SBI project mortgage. None of this tenure structure appears anywhere in the marketing — a concealed material fact.
CS Plot ReferenceCS 999 (part) — Survey 52 (part), Old CS 160 (part)
Plot Area3,201 sqm (2,756.87 lease land + 444.13 TIT BIT)
Ownership TypeLeasehold (MHADA → Shivkiran Society)
Lease Expiry31 March 2079 (99yr from 1 Apr 1980)
Title ChainClean — Adv. Ashwini R. Patil, Feb 2023 (2.5yr stale vs SBI mortgage)
Active Litigation3 intra-society family suits — non-obstructive per advocate
EncumbranceSBI mortgage MBE-3-13689/2025; Unit SK2801 excluded per Sale Agreement — schedule unverified
§2
Compound Layout
Compound Density
F
L
SeaKrest is a society redevelopment: a single sale wing (16 habitable residential floors, 19–34, ~12 sale units one-per-floor on most floors) alongside the MHADA society rehab wing that re-houses the existing members. The rehab component is not surfaced in marketing — but unlike the corridor norm, there is no SRA/rehab tower standing in the sale tower's western sightline, so it does not eat the sea view. Compound Density is graded Medium (dedicated-session lock) — cleaner than the Worli baseline. Floors 1–15 are a mechanical car-lift parking podium; 16–18 are amenity.
§3
Floor Space Index (FSI) · Floor Count · On-Time Delivery Risk
F — Fundamentals
Marketed Floor Count60 floors (Talati render ~68)
Proposed (TOD-contingent)~40 floors — TOD FSI 33(23), 2 unresolved hurdles
Approved & Under Construction34 floors — MHADA CCR/2, 28 Jan 2025
Floor Count Gap26 vs approved — 60 needs FSI ~6.8 vs ceiling 4.0 (no pathway)
Contingent FSICurrent FSI 3.0 fully consumed; TOD uplift to 4.0 = ~3,202 sqm contingent total built-up area
Commencement Certificate (CC) Status at AnalysisCCR/2 valid to 12 Jan 2026 — clean at Sale Agreement (3.7 months remaining)
On-Time Delivery RiskMedium — 34→40 gap = 1–2 hurdles; elevated by Sugee delay-by-design precedent
§4
View at Handover
All assessments at delivery date — not current state
V — Value
Worli View-Corridor — Sugee SeaKrest & the Pipeline at Handover
Inline · full corridor · subject pin pulses
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
Development Pipeline — A through M · ● affects Sugee SeaKrest
A Siddharth Nagar SRA — 80F+ residential, finalising
B Prestige Miriam / Mariamma Nagar SRA — 4–5 × 75F+
C BDD Chawls — 33×40F + 8–10×80F; east/SE density wall
D Worli Police Colony — FSI-4, ~175m WNW; only direct due-west threat
E Sumitomo / Bombay Dyeing — 22-acre mega-development
F Lodha ~4ac — north of DP Road [pending]
G Sterling / Worli Dairy SRA — 38F
H Lodha Seaface — KAGK coastal wall ~50F
I Worli STP — subsoil/odour corridor, ESE
J Aspect Realty — 57F opposite Raaya
K Birla Century Textiles — 10-acre ABREL parcel
L Coastal Road slum — L-shaped, SRA probable
M Oberoi Mall / commercial — Pandurang Budkar Marg
Critical scale
High / confirmed
Medium / pipeline
Infrastructure
Subject property
Note: Adarsh Nagar MHADA redevelopment (NNW wasting-asset driver for SeaKrest, bids opened May 2026) sits beyond the northern edge of this frame.
SeaKrest is marketed on the due-west / southwest Arabian Sea over CS 1008. That parcel is on a slum → CRZ III green-belt trajectory (cross-applied Nautilus intelligence) — an improving, defensible horizon nobody is marketing, and SeaKrest has no SRA tower in its western sightline. The risk lives elsewhere: the northwest sea-link / Bandra arc is the wasting asset — Adarsh Nagar (~350m NNW, FSI-4) opened bids in May 2026 with 40–60F towers probable, blocking the NW panorama from the 28th floor. Due west, the Worli Police Colony (badge D, ~175m WNW, G+7 today) only partially blocks the due-west view if it rebuilds to 40F+, and the policy exists but no Worli tender does yet — a quarterly monitoring item. Net: the due-west sea view is genuinely defensible; the NW arc is on a 2–4 year clock.
§5
Unit Analysis
Reference unit: SK2801, 28th floor (10th residential) — 378.95 sqm carpet + 73.49 sqm deck
V
L
Layout Quality — 86.6% usable
At 86.6% usable on a bare-shell, butterfly-circulation basis (luxury wet-area correction), SeaKrest ranks 3rd of 10 in the portfolio — well ahead of the Nautilus comparator. On a registered ₹0.52 L/sqft flat-carpet basis, pricing in the layout loss lifts the effective rate to roughly ₹0.60 L/sqft.
Kalpataru One (P04)
94%
Rustomjee Crown (P08)
82%
Sugee SeaKrest (P02) ◀
86.6%
Godrej Trilogy (P03)
81%
Prestige Nautilus (P01)
78%
Kitchen VentilationPASS — exhausts to outside air
Lift Wait TimePending — passenger-lift configuration analysis (12-unit tower, expected strong)
Non-RERA Carpet AreaNone — lift lobby correctly hatched as common (no ghost lobby)
Reference Price₹23.42 Cr total · ₹51,772/sqft (registered, flat carpet)
Effective ₹/sqft₹0.60 L (registered ÷ 0.866 layout)
Water SupplyPending — water-supply assessment (IOA Annexure A conditions)
§6
Access & Infrastructure
Rush Hour Commute · Neighbourhood at Handover
L — Livability
Rush Hour Commute: Graded Low (sealed). Eastern frontage on Annie Besant Road — a 36.6m DP road — with Worli Metro Station ~200m south, and just 12 sale units generating negligible self-load. This is one of the cleaner access stories in the corridor.
Neighbourhood at Handover: Graded Medium (dedicated-session lock; the Raaya-session HIGH/HIGH table drift is a recording artefact, not a re-assessment). The due-west boundary improves as CS 1008 transitions to a CRZ III green belt, while the NNW arc densifies through the early 2030s as the Adarsh Nagar redevelopment absorbs. A Dec 2028 possession lands the buyer just ahead of that densification wave — stress-test the premium against the 2032 neighbourhood, not today's.
Neighbourhood at Handover: Graded Medium (dedicated-session lock; the Raaya-session HIGH/HIGH table drift is a recording artefact, not a re-assessment). The due-west boundary improves as CS 1008 transitions to a CRZ III green belt, while the NNW arc densifies through the early 2030s as the Adarsh Nagar redevelopment absorbs. A Dec 2028 possession lands the buyer just ahead of that densification wave — stress-test the premium against the 2032 neighbourhood, not today's.
Community Profile
Within-building buyer composition — a lifestyle signal, not a risk flag
L — Livability
Business-dominant
Buyers who prioritise community harmony with a professionally managed building should weigh the transaction profile mix carefully at this price point.
Part 2
Findings — navigate by Severity or by FVL Category
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Findings Register
11 findings — 1 Critical · 2 High · 3 Medium · 1 Low-Med · 2 Low · 2 Positive
Floor count: 60 marketed vs ~40 max achievable vs 34 approved — plus Sugee delay-by-design precedent
FCriticalActiveMisrep ×2.0
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SK2801 will be built; ~40 floors is genuinely possible; 60 floors is regulatory fiction — and the same builder's Marina Bay precedent shows mid-project floor additions arrive bundled with RERA extensions. Builder Pattern Flag: at Marina Bay, Sugee applied for RERA Extension 1 exactly 22 days after the Rehab Building 1 Occupation Certificate (OC) that unlocked +8 floors of PAP FSI — floor addition and buyer-delay decisions made in the same window, undisclosed. If SeaKrest's TOD FSI is obtained, the precedent predicts an amended IOA + simultaneous RERA extension; Dec 2028 possession at risk. Monitoring trigger: any MHADA TOD/amended-IOA communication → demand written confirmation that the possession date stands.
Marketed
60-floor tower (website, brochures, Talati render ~68F)
Registered / Approved
34 floors approved (MHADA CCR/2); ~40 possible via TOD FSI (2 unresolved hurdles); 60 requires FSI 6.8 vs ceiling 4.0 — no pathway
Leasehold expiring 31 Mar 2079 — title certificate does not quantify buyer risk
FHighActiveConcealed ×1.6
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The flat's economic life is bounded by 2079 unless a Worli-rate renewal premium is paid — no buyer has been told. A 99-year lease from 1 Apr 1980 expires 2079; a flat bought in 2025 has ~51 years to lease maturity, and the renewal-premium precedent is 25–60% of the ready-reckoner rate. The Feb 2023 title report (Format A) makes no tenure mention; no marketing material does either.
Marketed
No tenure mention in any marketing
Registered / Documented
99yr lease from 1 Apr 1980; expiry 2079; renewal premium 25–60% of RR rate; ~51 years to maturity from 2025
Adarsh Nagar MHADA redevelopment — NNW view threat, bids opened May 2026
VHighActive
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The most time-sensitive view risk: the northwest panorama is a wasting asset on a 2–4 year clock; the due-west sea view is not. The MHADA tender (8 Apr 2026) saw bids opened 20 May 2026 (Adani, Lodha, JSW) for a 34.33-acre, FSI-4 parcel ~350m NNW; 40–60F towers are probable and would block the NW sea-link / Bandra arc from F28 at 40F+. The due-west sea horizon is unaffected.
Title certificate 2.5 years stale on the SBI project mortgage
FMediumActive
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One certified copy from the Sub-Registrar fully closes this — confirm SK2801 is in the mortgage deed's excluded-unit schedule. The SBI Indenture of Mortgage MBE-3-13689/2025 (8 Jul 2025) post-dates the 18 Feb 2023 title certificate; SK2801's exclusion is the seller's Sale Agreement Recital AA representation, and the mortgage deed's exclusion schedule is unverified. This is standard construction finance — the practical risk is construction disruption on default, not loss of the flat (RERA protects registered buyers).
Worli Police Colony (Pochkhanawala Rd) — due-west threat at policy stage
VMediumActive
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Quarterly monitoring item — the policy exists, the Worli tender does not yet. Cabinet approval Jan 2026 (45,000 quarters, 75 plots) covers the scheme, but no Worli tender has issued. The colony sits ~175m due WNW, currently G+7 (~25m); a 40F rebuild would partially block the 28th-floor due-west view, and a police-housing outcome reduces the impact.
Metro TOD FSI — real mechanism, two unresolved hurdles
FMediumActive
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The ~40-floor scenario is grounded but double-gated — and as the floor-count finding notes, its success may itself be a delivery-risk event. The site qualifies on distance (Worli Metro ~200m); an FSI 4.0 cap = +6–7 floors. Hurdle 1 = pedestrian-connectivity waiver; Hurdle 2 = MHADA/BMC jurisdiction with no precedent found. The Sale Agreement fallback clause protects the 34F outcome. TOD also halves parking, freeing ~7–8 podium floors if obtained.
MMRC 151 sqm land — return post-Aug 2022 unconfirmed
FLow-MedActive
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A construction-staging strip should have come back in 2022 — the paper trail confirming it hasn't been seen. Per the MOU (10 Apr 2017) and MMRC possession receipt (3 Aug 2017), a 5-year staging licence expired ~Aug 2022, and the return is not confirmed in the Feb 2023 title certificate. The metro tunnel runs under Annie Besant Road, not the building footprint.
Plan amendment corrected — 34 floors operative (internal correction)
FLowClosed
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Internal correction — no buyer impact. Field data (15 parking + 3 amenity + 16 residential = 34) supersedes the May 2024 plan reading (33), an improvement against the CCR/2 record.
CC valid at agreement registration — clean
FPositiveClosed
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Opposite of the Nautilus finding — the approval chain was current when the buyer signed. CCR/2 was valid to 12 Jan 2026 with 3.7 months remaining at Sale Agreement registration (23 Sep 2025); Sugee proactively renewed before the agreement cycle, so the Nautilus expired-CC pattern does not apply. Forward monitoring: annual renewal post-12 Jan 2026 to verify on the MHADA portal.
CS 1008 western boundary → green belt — POSITIVE trajectory
VPositiveActive
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The western boundary transforms from active slum to protected open green space — a material positive nobody is marketing. Prestige's SRA LOI + completed dweller deal on CS 1008 (cross-applied from neighbouring-project intelligence) puts the post-clearance intent at green/open, with the CRZ III designation constraining construction. SeaKrest has no SRA tower in its western sightline (cleaner than Nautilus). Marketing shows the current slum state, not the improvement.
Mechanical car-lift parking to 15 podium floors — standard and practical
LLowClosed
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An operational clarification, not a risk — residents don't drive up 15 floors. The car-lift (not ramp-drive) runs two platforms incl. a large-SUV size; cycle 60–90s on low floors, ~3.5–4 min upper; 12 units × 4 spaces = low contention. The 15 podium floors are a mathematical consequence of the 3,201 sqm plot, not a design choice, and resolve partially if TOD halves parking.
F
Fundamentals
The foundation — title clarity, approvals, developer compliance, and whether you get possession on time
7 findings
Floor count: 60 marketed vs ~40 max vs 34 approved — plus Sugee delay-by-design precedent
Critical
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60 floors exist in no approval; 34 approved, ~40 via TOD FSI (60 needs FSI 6.8 vs ceiling 4.0). The Marina Bay precedent shows mid-project floor additions arrive bundled with RERA extensions — Dec 2028 at risk if TOD lands.
Leasehold expiring 31 Mar 2079 — title cert does not quantify buyer risk
High
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99yr lease from 1 Apr 1980; ~51 years to maturity from 2025; renewal premium 25–60% of RR rate. No tenure mention in marketing.
Title certificate 2.5 years stale on the SBI project mortgage
Medium
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SBI mortgage MBE-3-13689/2025 post-dates the Feb 2023 cert; SK2801 exclusion is a Sale Agreement representation — one certified copy of the deed schedule closes it.
Metro TOD FSI — real mechanism, two unresolved hurdles
Medium
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~40F is grounded but double-gated (pedestrian-connectivity waiver + MHADA/BMC jurisdiction); Sale Agreement fallback protects 34F. As the floor-count finding notes, success may itself be a delivery-risk event.
MMRC 151 sqm land — return post-Aug 2022 unconfirmed
Low-Med
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5yr staging licence expired ~Aug 2022; return not confirmed in the Feb 2023 cert. Metro tunnel runs under Annie Besant Road, not the footprint.
Plan amendment corrected — 34 floors operative (internal correction)
Low
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Field data (34) supersedes the May 2024 plan reading (33) — an improvement, no buyer impact.
CC valid at agreement registration — clean
Positive
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CCR/2 valid to 12 Jan 2026, 3.7 months remaining at Sale Agreement registration — opposite of the Nautilus expired-CC pattern. Annual renewal post-Jan 2026 to verify.
V
Value
The deal — layout quality, views at handover, and whether the price is justified by what you actually receive
3 findings
Adarsh Nagar MHADA redevelopment — NNW view threat, bids opened May 2026
High
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34.33 acres, FSI-4, ~350m NNW; 40–60F probable; blocks the NW sea-link arc from F28 at 40F+. The due-west sea horizon is unaffected — the NW panorama is the wasting asset.
Worli Police Colony — due-west threat at policy stage
Medium
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~175m WNW, G+7 today; a 40F rebuild partially blocks the 28F due-west view. Cabinet policy exists, no Worli tender yet — quarterly monitoring item.
CS 1008 western boundary → green belt — POSITIVE trajectory
Positive
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Slum → CRZ III green/open trajectory on the due-west boundary; no SRA tower in SeaKrest's western sightline. A material positive nobody is marketing.
L
Livability
The daily reality — commute, building density, neighbourhood character, and quality of services at possession
1 finding
Mechanical car-lift parking to 15 podium floors — standard and practical
Low
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Car-lift (not ramp-drive), two platforms; low contention on 12 units × 4 spaces. A mathematical consequence of the 3,201 sqm plot, not a design choice.
Part 3
Verdict — FVL Score breakdown + final assessment
§8
Verdict
FVL scores sealed — floor-count transparency multiplier caps the verdict at Investigate
Rexray FVL Index — Score Breakdown
F
Fundamentals
The foundation — title, approvals, compliance, and delivery
Medium
5.0 / 10 · Weight 40%
V
Value
The deal — layout, views at handover, and price justification
Good
7.0 / 10 · Weight 40%
L
Livability
The daily reality — commute, density, services, and neighbourhood
Medium
6.5 / 10 · Weight 20%
FVL Overall
6.1
/ 10 · (F×0.40) + (V×0.40) + (L×0.20) · Medium
Critical Risk Review
No critical deal-breaker. No deal-breaker is triggered at analysis — the verdict is driven by the FVL composite and the floor-count transparency multiplier, not an override.
Floor-count cap applied: the floor-count transparency multiplier (2.0×) caps the verdict at Investigate — scores are nearly identical to Niyaara on the continuous scale, but the 60-vs-34 misrepresentation forces the cap.
On-Time Delivery Risk — Medium
The 34→40 floor gap sits at 1–2 hurdles in the Medium band. The rating is elevated by the Sugee delay-by-design precedent: if the TOD FSI lands, the Marina Bay pattern predicts a simultaneous RERA extension — putting the Dec 2028 possession at risk. Capital-viability inputs (MHADA CA audit + total project value model) remain pending. Combined rating: Medium.