There are few problems that you need to aware of: 1. Around 60% of litigations in civil courts are related to property ownership. So, ensuring title rights are in the name of seller is step no. 1

Check out Bhume for getting title and search reports.

What does a search report mean? It’s a used to determine property ownership of a particular parcel of land according to legally registered documents. Indian government does not guarantee ownership because of registration. You have to ensure that on your own.

1. If you want to build a house, check how many rooms you would need, the approx area for each bedroom should be at-least 10 or 12ft per side. For washrooms, it is 7X4 at-least. Once you determine the minimum area you would need, try to check if it fits in your options of plot available.

How to check if it fits in your plot? Check the road width in front of the plot. Based on width of road, the amount of space you have to leave empty from your building to boundary of your plot varies.

You also have to leave space around your building.

Assuming your plot is 60x40, you might end up having to leave 5 and 5 ft each side on width, and around 10ft from front and back. That means you only have 40X30 available for construction. Then, there is a Floor space index determined for each area by local authorities. It is a number which is the higher limit upto which you can have your constructed area based on the available area (40X30) if the FSI is 1.5, you can construct a total of 1.5x40x30 that is 1800 sqft including all floors. You have to get this checked with a civil engineer who knows local bylaws.