Lalbaug 33(9) cluster; sale towers still in the podium, most homes already sold. · RERA P51900032613
MahaRERA P51900032613 · C.S. 3/52, 3A/52, 3A1/52 & 3B/52, Parel-Sewree Division · Dr. B.A. Road, Lalbaug, Mumbai 400012 · F/South Ward · DCPR 33(9) cluster redevelopment · sale towers in the podium (CC lapsed 11/06/2026; construction active)
Overall Score5.9/10as of 09/26
The brochure sells a finished trophy tower with sweeping Arabian Sea views, while the sale towers are still climbing out of the podium, most of the homes are already sold, the sea is a distant glimpse past far towers, and the land carries charges the regulator's page says do not exist.
Flags- The regulator's page says 'no financial encumbrance', yet the land carries live Kotak, HDFC Capital and Piramal charges with buyers' payments pledged.
nothing here is a title, view or livability failure; the land is the family's own freehold estate in a JV with the developer (clean for the market), and the podium, lifts, layout, amenities and open west aspect are all good. The weight is on delivery: both sale towers are still below a habitable slab with most homes sold, and the occupation certificate is gated on the rehab wings. The construction-linked payment plan is the one thing holding the buyer's exposure to the build.
The five things that decide it
1Both sale towers are still below their first habitable slab, yet more than half the homes are sold: Tower 1, the smaller-format tower, is about 80% sold, while the east-facing Tower 2 is mostly unsold — and the money is tied to construction milestones.
2The regulator's page says 'no financial encumbrance', but the agreement recites Kotak, an HDFC Capital fund and two Piramal mortgages, with buyers' payments pledged.
3Clean land for the market — the plot is the family's own freehold estate, redeveloped in a JV with the developer whose name it shares; only a tenth is MHADA land, vested and never conveyed.
4Good bones — a self-park podium you drive to your bay, six lifts a core, an ~80% layout, a genuine amenity deck, and an open west aspect from a podium that lifts the lowest home ~42 m up.
5The marketed 'Arabian Sea' is a distant glimpse past far towers, and today's open arcs rest on low-rise neighbours the buyer has pre-agreed not to object to when they redevelop.
Livability
6.4/10FairPillar score is the average of the scored attributes below; some attributes are qualitative and carry questions rather than a number.
Compound Density4.5/10
A dense compound, with rehab woven through it
- About a hectare carries two sale towers, two rehab residential wings built first — and unusually tall, roughly 37 floors each where rehab stock is normally 25 to 30, so the intra-plot mass is heavier than a typical cluster — a rehab commercial component in the base of Tower 2, a stand-alone rehab parking tower, a temple and a 510-kilolitre sewage plant.
- The rehab built-up area slightly exceeds the net sale area, and the scheme proposes 470 tenements.
- This is a full cluster redevelopment, not a standalone tower, and the buyer joins all of it.
Understand “Compound Density” on the X-Ray page ↗Neighbourhood4.5/10
Dense today, and building taller
- Three sides of the plot are a dense mill-land and chawl fabric — Jam Mill Compound to the west, Jam Building Compound and Ananji Ladha Building to the south, New Haji Kasam Chawl to the north — with a 36-metre arterial to the east and harbour and dock land beyond.
- Lalbaug is one of the city's most active mill-land redevelopment corridors, and those chawls will certainly redevelop, so the surround is dense now and building upward — the same set of towers that caps the view's durability.
- Access is a genuine strength for most of the holding period: the Eastern Freeway and Dr.
- B.A.
- Road are wide and free-flowing.
- The one live drag is a roughly two-year congestion spike from the Elphinstone Road bridge works and extra load on Currey Road — but that window largely overlaps the construction period, so it is mostly spent before possession.
Understand “Neighbourhood” on the X-Ray page ↗Peak-Hour Connectivity5.0/10
Moderate — and a transient bridge-works spike
- The drive to the nearest coastal-road entry runs about 55 minutes today — a transient spike from the Elphinstone Road bridge works — settling to roughly 30 minutes once that clears.
- The tower's natural fast corridor is the Eastern Freeway to the east; the western coastal road is four to five kilometres away, which keeps the coastal-road drive moderate rather than quick.
Fixable? Builders like to sell connectivity as kilometres from a landmark — but the real test is time, not distance: how long you would actually be stuck, at peak hour, just getting to a fast arterial like a Sea Link or Coastal Road on-ramp. The access route and the on-ramp are municipal and outside the developer's control, so there is no fix to offer — only an honest read of the peak-hour reality today and the area's trajectory by 2032, once the surrounding pipeline has built out.
Understand “Peak-Hour Connectivity” on the X-Ray page ↗Kitchen Ventilation9.0/10
Kitchens breathe out
Each kitchen opens onto an adjacent utility or dry balcony that reaches the outside wall, so cooking air has a genuine external path rather than being recirculated into the home — the outcome a buyer wants at this price.
Understand “Kitchen Ventilation” on the X-Ray page ↗Lift Wait8.0/10
Well-lifted for the height
- Each tower core carries six passenger lifts, plus a fire lift and a service lift, running at 2.5 metres a second or faster.
- On that count the morning lift-wait comes out at Grade A-to-B on both towers — the more crowded Tower 1 and the taller Tower 2 alike — and never slips to C or D.
- For fifty-storey towers, that is a comfortable margin.
Understand “Lift Wait” on the X-Ray page ↗Water Adequacy7.0/10
Adequate — standard water conditions, no deficit
- The plans provide domestic and flushing tanks, an overhead-tank arrangement and a 510-kilolitre recycling plant for the 379-home sale side.
- The municipal approval carries only the standard water conditions — water-works remarks on the tanks and hydraulic-engineer remarks, all routine pre-construction submittals — with no per-unit water shortfall flagged, so provision reads adequate.
Understand “Water Adequacy” on the X-Ray page ↗Parking7.0/10
You drive to your own bay
- For a tower of this scale the podium is unusually good: it is self-park, with two-way ramps climbing all nine decks and no car lift or mechanical rack anywhere, so you drive to your own bay rather than waiting on a machine — and on the ground the ramps read well.
- Each deck holds around 80 cars.
- Two things pull it back from the top of the scale.
- About one stall in five is a tandem — two cars deep, one behind the other — which is not what 'one covered parking' suggests; and the nine-deck climb is a real daily cost.
- The bays are also a licence until the society forms rather than a deeded space, so allotment is effectively deferred — worth pushing for the lowest deck nearest the core.
- The reference home comes with two bays at no separate cost.
What to ask the builder- Confirm which of your two bays is tandem, and push in writing for the lowest podium deck nearest the lift core.
Understand “Parking” on the X-Ray page ↗Build Planning & Qualitynot yet scored
A checklist to verify with the builder — Rexray will score this attribute as the field database grows.
Rexray's database will, over time, be enriched with the attention to detail and quality ethos of each builder. For now, below is the checklist you should verify with the builder before you decide.
What to ask the builder- Who's the architect, and what comparable have they delivered?
- Do the lobbies need lights during the day?
- Gym/pool/lobby sized for how many residents? (gym sqft / residents)
- Does this unit's layout meet your Vastu requirements (entry, kitchen, master)?
- Can a fire tender or an ambulance reach the lobby?
- Who is actually building it?
- Mivan or conventional — and how are the tie-holes grouted and cracks controlled?
- What's the realistic floor-cycle, and how does the monsoon factor in?
- Which steel/cement? Facade glazing spec? MEP contractor? STP/solar?
- Which marble/fittings exactly? Which window system? VRV brand?
- Deck/bathroom waterproofing system? How's the facade sealed into the structure?
- Gypsum or block internal walls — and are the party walls insulated?
- Does the back-up generator power my whole flat, or only the common areas?
- Is the parking solo, tandem, or a mechanical stack — and how wide are the bays?
Understand “Build Planning & Quality” on the X-Ray page ↗Community6.0/10
A mixed compound — but a managed, street-facing one
- The homes are marketed as luxury 'Uber Luxe' apartments, and the compound also rehouses two rehab residential wings under a separate society and a commercial rehab frontage — clinics, shops and stalls — built into the base of the very tower the sale homes sit in.
- But on the ground the rehab is cordoned off and that frontage faces the Dr.
- B.A.
- Road arterial, where shops already trade today, behind a sanctioned road setback — so the footfall texture is unchanged and the mix is street-facing rather than intruding on the residential lobbies.
- A genuinely mixed community, but a managed and segregated one.
What to ask the builder- What is the ticket-size range in the building — the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive home?
- Is the building vegetarian-only, or skewed to a single community?
- Is it owner-occupied, or investor- and tenant-heavy?
- What is the pet policy?
Understand “Community” on the X-Ray page ↗
Findings register
15 findings · severity-ranked
Every marketed claim set against the documented fact, sourced. Critical and high first.
HIGH
Both sale towers are at plinth only, yet 217 of 379 homes are already sold
DocumentedMarketing sells a ready 'trophy' lifestyle.
Form 1 (30/06/2026): Tower 1 podiums 55% / 0 of 40 slabs; Tower 2 basement+plinth 10% / 0 slabs; services 0%. 217 sold + 20 booked of 379; Tower 1 ~81% sold with no habitable slab.
Source: registered documents, government filings
HIGH
Portal says 'Financial Encumbrance: No'; the land carries Kotak, HDFC Capital and Piramal charges
MarketedThe MahaRERA portal answers 'Financial Encumbrance: No'.
DocumentedThe registered the agreement recites: Kotak Mahindra Investments mortgages of 2019 (Rs.68 cr, BBE-1/2199/2019) and 2020 (Rs.8.57 cr, BBE-3/6107/2020); an HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund-3 (AIF) mortgage via Vistra ITCL of 2023-24 with the project receivables hypothecated, RECONVEYED 08/10/2025; and two Piramal mortgages (First Mortgage Deed 07/06/2024, BBE-1/3692/2024; Second Mortgage Deed 25/09/2025). The July-2025 disclosure quantifies Piramal at Rs.125 cr sanctioned, Rs.48.23 cr drawn, Rs.34.48 cr outstanding. The lone CERSAI 'No Match Found' search was run 02/12/2021 on survey 3/52 alone at the promoter's office PIN.
The regulator's page answers 'no' on encumbrance while the land carries a live charge stack the promoter's own agreement sets out in full.
Source: registered documents, government filings
MED-HIGH
The registered promoter is a 2023 company; the title opinion and approvals name the old partnership firm
MarketedMarketed under the Tejukaya/Tribeca brand.
DocumentedThe registered promoter is Tejukaya Corp Private Limited (CIN U43900MH2023PTC409178), incorporated 2023, 'erstwhile known as Tejukaya Corp' (a partnership firm). The 2019 and 2022 title reports, the 2021 the building approval/Commencement Certificate, the development agreements and the sanctioned plans' owner block all name the partnership firm; Pranav Tejookaya signs the 2021 letter as 'Authorised Partner' and the 2025 documents as 'Designated Director'.
The company selling the flats is a 2023 conversion of the partnership the title opinion and the development agreements were written about, and the novation is not shown.
Source: registered documents
MED-HIGH
Commercial rehab tenants are rehoused inside the base of sale Tower 2 (portal calls it a separate wing)
MarketedThe portal lists a separate 'Rehab Sale Wing' of 16 non-residential units.
DocumentedSanctioned Sheet 23 rehouses 24 NAMED non-residential tenants of the demolished Ranveer Sadan (clinics, shops, stalls) at the ground and ground+1st levels of TOWER II; Sheet 2 draws the shops inside the sale building's ground plate. Existing carpet 424.20 -> proposed 508.56 sqm; a 138.76 sqm deficit is covered by a RUT-cum-indemnity bond required before Commencement Certificate endorsement (approval condition 5).
The sale tower has a rehoused commercial frontage - clinics, shops and stalls - built into its base, which the portal presents as a separate building.
Source: government filings
MEDIUM
A tenth of the plot is MHADA land, vested and never conveyed, on a provisional no-objection only
MarketedMarketed as a single premium address.
DocumentedThree of the four parcels are Tejukaya FAMILY freehold - C.S. 3B/52 (Kantilal Khimji Tejookaya), 3/52 (Pramodkumar Khimji HUF) and 3A/52 (Tejukaya Corp) - developed by the family's company under 2013/2014 development agreements; there is no BMC or MHADA lease over them. The fourth, C.S. 3A1/52 'Ranveer Sadan' (~10.7%), was acquired by MHADA under s.93, 'continued to be vested in MHADA and was never conveyed/transferred to the Society' (governing 2022 title report), its Property Register Card stands in MHADA's name, and it is included in the scheme only on a MHADA provisional No-Objection Certificate (21/05/2019) + a 2024 MBRRB permission with a 138.76 sqm land-cost to MHADA - no executed lease or final sanction on file. the agreement clause 35 conveys the structure to the society at OC, with land conveyance to the federal society deferred.
The family owns and redevelops its own freehold estate, but a tenth of the plot is MHADA land still vested in MHADA and never conveyed, brought into the scheme on a provisional no-objection only.
Source: registered documents, government filings
MEDIUM
Fund/NBFC capital with the buyers' receivables pledged sits in the capital stack
MarketedMarketed as a Tribeca trophy development.
DocumentedBeyond ordinary bank debt, the agreement recites an HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund-3 (a SEBI Category II AIF) mortgage through Vistra ITCL as debenture trustee, WITH hypothecation of the project receivables (reconveyed Oct 2025), and two Piramal facilities through a security trustee, again with receivables hypothecated (Piramal Rs.125 cr sanctioned).
The developer's funding runs through a private-equity fund and an NBFC held via a trustee, with the money buyers pay pledged as security.
Source: registered documents
MEDIUM
The governing title opinion's litigation search is about seven years old
MarketedThe the agreement represents no pending litigation 'except those disclosed in the Title Report'.
DocumentedKanga & Co expressly 'have not conducted updated litigation searches' and rely on a Cubictree litigation report dated 16/03/2019. The portal lists six matters (2011-2021), including S.C. Suit 1781/2018 (City Civil, Ongoing) and R.A.D. Suit 505/2020 (Small Causes, a tenancy dispute over a project unit).
The title opinion the buyer is pointed to for litigation relies on a 2019 search, so its litigation picture is roughly seven years out of date.
Source: registered documents, government filings
MEDIUM
The west view is genuinely open today, but the marketed 'sea' is a distant glimpse and the open arcs are exposed to future redevelopment
Marketed'Infinite Views of the Arabian Sea' and 'sweeping Arabian Sea views' (brochure).
DocumentedThe west aspect the brochure shows is open in the near and mid field (
Avighna Precedent sits to the north-west, not across the west); from height the Arabian Sea (~3.5 km) is a distant glimpse past far towers such as Prestige Commercial and Minerva, not an unbroken expanse. Tower 2 faces the more open east; a Tower 2 unit-4 south deck is open today. But the surrounding chawls will themselves redevelop, and the buyer has pre-consented to neighbours building with deficient open space (the building approval condition A56), so the open near-field is not durable.
The west view is genuinely open today and the sea is a distant glimpse past far towers; the marketing oversells it as 'infinite', and future chawl redevelopment can close the open arcs the buyer has pre-agreed not to contest.
Source: marketing, registered documents, REXRAY-FIELD
MEDIUM
Buyers give advance no-objection to further floor area (FSI)/Transfer of Development Rights loading on the compound
MarketedMarketed as a finished two-tower address.
Documentedthe agreement clauses 16.4/16.5: the promoter retains all unutilised/residual floor area (FSI) and Transfer of Development Rights on the layout land and 'shall have the right to deal/use the floor area (FSI)/Transfer of Development Rights as it may deem fit, without any objection/interference from the Allottee'; the buyer also pre-consents to the promoter's proposed floor-plan amendment. Conveyance is of the structure only, deferred, with the promoter retaining unsold-flat rights.
The buyer signs away, in advance, the right to object to the developer building more on the compound and to plan changes.
Source: registered documents
MEDIUM
Completion has already slipped two years and the sale OC is gated on the rehab wings
MarketedPossession framed around 2030 in the agreement.
DocumentedThe RERA proposed completion has moved from 31/12/2028 to 31/12/2030; the agreement commits possession by 31/12/2030 plus a 12-month grace (i.e. 31/12/2031). Under the 33(9) scheme the sale towers' OC is gated on completing the rehab component.
The delivery date has already moved out two years, and the buyer's keys depend on finishing the rehab wings first.
Source: registered documents, government filings
MEDIUM
Buyers pre-consent to neighbouring plots redeveloping with deficient open space, waiving the objection that would defend the view
MarketedMarketed on open 'sweeping' views and a premium address.
DocumentedThe original the building approval (condition A17) charges a premium for 'Condonation of deficient open spaces' (the plot itself is open-space deficient), and condition A56 requires a registered undertaking that 'the owner shall not have any objection if the neighbouring plot owner come for development with deficiency in open spaces'. On a dense mill-land plot where the abutting chawls will themselves redevelop, that is an advance waiver of the standing to object to precisely the neighbouring tower that would close the buyer's light, air and view.
The approvals record the plot as open-space deficient and bind the owner to pre-consent to neighbours redeveloping with deficient open space too - a waiver that points outward at the very redevelopment that threatens the view.
Source: government filings, registered documents
LOW-MED
The governing commencement certificate lapsed on 11 June 2026, though construction is active on the ground
DocumentedThe portal shows an Active project.
Commencement Certificate/3/Amend was issued 12/06/2025 valid to 11/06/2026, endorsed to 'Plinth i.e. top of 9th podium level', and has lapsed ~2.5 months with no successor on file - but the site is actively building, so this is a paperwork lag rather than a stop-work.
Source: government filings
LOW-MED
Parking includes tandem stalls and the bays are licensed, not deeded
MarketedMarketed as a premium two-tower address with covered parking.
DocumentedThe sanctioned podium sheet shows a self-park drivable system across nine decks (good), but about a fifth of each deck's stalls are tandem (two-deep). The the agreement grants the reference home two bays FREE of cost but use-only until the society forms, with no separate consideration and effectively deferred allotment.
Some 'covered parking' is a two-deep tandem stall, and the bays are a licence until the society is formed rather than a deeded space.
Source: registered documents, government filings
LOW-MED
The reference home is sold bare-shell, so fit-out sits on top of the headline rate
MarketedMarketing photographs finished, furnished 'masterpiece' interiors.
Documentedthe agreement clause 3.1: the flat is sold 'in bare-shell form'; the ~Rs.37,900/sqft carpet rate is for the shell, with a Rs.1,000/sqft building-protection deposit and advance maintenance on top. The consideration is calculated on a not-yet-sanctioned revised floor plan.
The advertised interiors are not what is delivered - the home comes as a bare shell, and fit-out is a separate cost.
Source: registered documents
LOW
Three names for one project, and a portal that invents a building
MarketedMarketed as 'The Edge' in 'the heart of Parel'.
DocumentedThe portal registers 'THE EDGE'; the sanctioned plans and title reports call the sale building 'Tejukaya Pride'; the land is 'Tejukaya Mansion'. The registered locality is Lalbaug (marketed as Parel - adjacent, same ward). The portal also presents a 'Rehab Sale Wing' that the drawings put inside Tower II.
One project carries three names across its own papers, and the regulator's page and the drawings do not describe the same buildings.
Source: registered documents, marketing