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Compound Wall Cost and Rules in Hyderabad 2026: Materials, Height, Setbacks and Boundary Disputes Hyderabad | October 24, 2026 A family owns a 30 × 40 ft plot in Hyderabad and wants to construct a compound wall before beginning its house. The contractor quotes ₹650 per running foot for a precast wall. Another builder quotes ₹1,300 per running foot for brick masonry. A third suggests an RCC-framed wall and says it will cost more than ₹2 lakh. Which option is better? And an even more important question comes first: can the owner build directly along the boundary shown on an old sale deed, or must the wall remain inside a setback? A neighbour may claim that the proposed line encroaches on their land. A future road-widening proposal may also affect the roadside boundary. Compound wall construction combines civil engineering, property surveying and local planning rules. The cost depends on wall height, materials, foundation, structural supports and finishes. The legal position depends on th...

 Hyderabad TDR Rules 2026: Will High-Rise Apartment Prices Rise? GO 95 Explained for Buyers Hyderabad | October 16, 2026 Anyone searching for Hyderabad's new high-rise TDR rules in 2026 can easily end up with the wrong answer. Earlier this year, headlines warned that builders constructing towers above 10 floors would have to use Transferable Development Rights, or TDR, equal to 10% of the built-up area above the tenth floor . Developers argued that the requirement could increase construction economics enough to add roughly ₹350–₹400 per sq ft to apartment prices. That rule was real. But it is no longer the current rule. Telangana first introduced the 10% requirement through G.O. Ms. No. 16 dated January 16, 2026 . After representations from builders and other stakeholders, the government changed the framework through G.O. Ms. No. 95 dated March 21, 2026 . The current order reduces mandatory TDR utilisation to 3% or 5%, depending on the height category, and also changes several oth...

  GHMC Building Permission Online 2026: BuildNow Step-by-Step Guide, Documents, Fees and Approval Time Hyderabad | Updated October 8, 2026 If you are planning to build a house, apartment building or commercial property in Hyderabad in 2026, one of the first questions is simple: Where do I apply for GHMC building permission now? The answer has changed. New building and layout approval applications falling under GHMC, HMDA and DTCP jurisdictions are now processed through the Telangana government's BuildNow portal . GHMC itself currently directs citizens to BuildNow for new Instant Registration, Instant Approval and Single Window building-permission services. This is important because older Google results still show instructions for DPMS and TG-bPASS . Those older pages can create confusion. GHMC stopped accepting new TG-bPASS applications from April 3, 2025 , while the BuildNow portal says remaining pending TG-bPASS applications were to be completed by December 15, 2025 before that ...