Buying fromanother timezone
An overseas purchase is the same purchase with three extra problems: distance, banking and paperwork executed abroad. Each is solvable — if you deal with it in the right order.
Sort the banking before you sort the balcony.
Overseas buyers usually start where everyone starts — with floor plans and a view. The parts that actually go wrong are further back: which account the money leaves from, who is legally able to sign in India on the day, and whether anyone has read the title who is not being paid by the seller.
Those three answers depend on your residency, your bank and the state the property sits in. This page will not give them to you, because a website that gave you a confident answer would be guessing. What it will do is tell you who holds each answer, and when in the process you need it.
How an overseas purchaseactually runs
Six stages. The first can be done entirely from your desk; the last is the one people underestimate.
Shortlist from where you are
Every brochure, layout plan and floor plan on this site is open — no form, no login. Work through the estates, then ask the team for a video walkthrough of anything you cannot fly out to see.
Nothing here needs to happen in India.
Appoint people on the ground
An independent property lawyer is the one appointment worth making early. Decide too whether a family member or professional will act for you, and have your lawyer prepare the authority properly if so.
Your lawyer, not the seller's.
Settle the banking route first
Which account funds the purchase affects what happens when you eventually sell. Take this to an authorised dealer bank before you pay a booking amount, not after.
Ask your bank before you transfer.
Verify the project independently
Search the project on the relevant state RERA portal and read the filings yourself. Have your lawyer check title, approvals and the draft agreement against what you have been shown.
Public record, not marketing copy.
Complete and register
Registration happens at the sub-registrar in the state where the property sits. Confirm well in advance whether you need to attend in person, and what the total cost will be at current rates.
Plan the travel, or the authority.
Decide how it will be held
Once you have the keys, someone has to hold them. Agree in advance who inspects at handover, who deals with maintenance, and whether the property will sit, be used or be let.
Distance makes this the hard part.
Three sourcesworth more than any website
Eligibility, remittance, repatriation and tax are decided by rules that change and by facts particular to you. These are the three places to take them.
The state RERA portal
Each state runs its own portal. Search the project by name or registration number to see its current status, promoter disclosures, sanctioned plans and quarterly filings.
An independent property lawyer
Appoint someone who acts for you alone. A lawyer reads the title chain, the approvals and the draft agreement, and tells you what the clauses actually commit you to.
Your authorised dealer bank
Banking, remittance and repatriation rules depend on your residency status, the account used and the rules in force. Your bank confirms what applies to your transaction.
The questionswe are asked most
Answers here tell you what a question depends on and who can answer it for your situation. Anything more specific from a developer’s website would be a guess about your circumstances.
Ask something elseHowever far away you are
The helpdesk covers sales, leasing and after-sales around the clock. If someone can visit on your behalf, these are the four offices they can walk into.
Call or email with the estate and configuration you are looking at, and the team can send current availability and arrange a walkthrough.