Sobha Developers - One among cheats in Bangalore

That’s really BAD. Actually when you see all the prominent builders of bangalore are non professionals and lack basic knowledge of multi-storeyed building. This is even the case with puravankara, who take ages to complete their project. I saw many ppl staying in still under construction site (only 40% completed). This is ridiculous, high time these builders learn some professionalism and don’t cheat customers

Sobha Moonstone - Biggest Blunder and no compensation to customers

I have booked apartment in moonstone in 2006 and till date they have hardly constructed it. After fighting for 6 months they have cancelled it and taken away 80,000 Rs of my money citing service tax and cancellation fees. I am yet to understand how a cancelled apt have service tax.

Sobha Developers - Highly over-rated builder

I fully agree with all the comments made in other reviews. In today’s times of economic turmoil, It is better to go for a readily available apartment than to wait for eternity to get one completed.
However if you choose to go for Sobha and that too one being still completed, then these are the things that you need to be aware of -

- Sobha will make sure that all the terms and conditions are in their favor.

- Any modifications that you ask Sobha to execute, they will botch these up big time. However, they will charge you a bomb for these modifications

- Payment is linked to completed floors. Hence to get money as fast as possible, they just keep on raising floors without completing the apartments on the floor. Once the entire payment is made, they take their sweet time to complete the project

- Their Service team comprises immature folks who do not know how to interact with customers. The turnover of these folks and Sales guys is very high. So you don’t know whom to talk to if anything goes wrong - Believe me a lot of financial stuff goes wrong and no coincidence that this is always in Sobha’s favor

- Sobha is well known for delays in handing over projects. Average is more than a year!

- They will not leave any stone unturned in extracting as much money as possible through heads like VAT, Service tax, BWSSB, KEB and Registration. They do not produce any receipts as proofs of payments made. Nor will they show any proofs when they decide to hike these charges arbitrarily

- The top management is completely unapproachable. Mails and calls will go unanswered.

Sobha Developers - No better than any other shark in the industry

I don’t have much idea about other developers or builders, but like many other customers of Sobha Developers I feel disgusted to have dealt with this so called "reputed builder". I wonder how we Indians grade these people as "reputed" so easily.

For new home buyers, my honest ranking about the company below , based on my and my friends’ experiences, may be helpful : (Scale of 0 to 10 and 10 is the best)

Quality of Construction: 7
Quality of finishing (Civil work): 7
Quality of finishing (Doors, windows shutters, sinks etc.): 4
Response of the sales team: 7
Response of Customer Care: 6
Response of the legal team (you are at their mercy at one stage of the deal) : 2
Response of the employees at the lower levels: 2
Response of the top management (you will obviously feel like speaking to top management when you get frustrated by the dishonesty and lies of lower grades) : 0
Keeping up with their words: 1
Overall Honesty: 2
Transparency: 1
Sensitivity: 0
Undeserved hype for the company: 9
Value for your hard earned money: 4

I must also tell you that many apartment owners hesitate to speak negative about their property fearing depreciation in value for their investment, despite having all the wrath and frustration.

Ok, you too may compare and evaluate your experience and comment upon the same for the benefit of other customers.

After all, if someone had warned me about them before, or had I read the other comments here earlier, I would’ve missed this "opportunity" to be called as the customer of this "reputed" builder !!

Prospetive Buyer Feedback

Hello,

Reading all that's on this blogs sends a massive shock wave down my spine..! Is there any way we can bring it to the notice of the top officials.?!?!? Trust me property developers are the same every where thru out India. I am from Singapore, now trying to invest some buck on a property back home. But I am worried how things are going to be..!
Real estate seems to be scary to invest, u will never be sure of what u r getting. to top it all the legal system in India screws every thing up..!

You cant claim anything from any body for damages faced. ‘Professional Negligence’ is to the core in construction industry. None perform their job, all risks are transferred to the buyer.

I don't have any hope.. this is not gonna change in recent future.

Thank u all, for the information about the developers back home in India…!