Buying a house? Soon, stamp duty and registration fees may fall to 5-6%

Planning to build your dream home? You may want to hold on for some time, as the housing board is trying to convince state governments to cut stamp duties and registration fees. If the move is successful, you will definitely save some bucks. In mid-April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that every Indian should have a house by 2022, on the 75th anniversary of the country’s Independence.

“We have a dream for 2022. The poorest of poor should have a house of his own", Modi said.

In lieu of "Housing for all vision", Sriram Kalyanaraman, MD of the National