First hand experience at Sobha

Review On Sobha Developers, Bangalore

I booked my appartment in Sobha developer's IRIS porject couple of years back.

The reason I chose Sobha was their quality and their timely delivery. Or that was what I thought.

I'm going through a harrowing experience now. The project is already delayed by a year and as of now im expecting another 6 months delay. Builder has confirmed about the delay just today but are yet to give another date. I wont be surprised if they say another 8 months.

Project is due for delivery( after a year of delay) on Feb 2008. Even today, just a month and half ahead they are not able to confirm the new date. The project planning is absolute poor, CRM is just a front office handlers just to ensure you dont reach the actual site engineers. They are not part of planning, do not have a proper insight to the project, do not know if the project is under staffed and cannot take any decision.

As all expects Sobha, a big brand, will pay the penalty if the delivery is delayed. its absolutly false.They have a clause in the sale deed, which says if you make any modification in the appartment you purchace, Sobha will not be liable to pay any penalty. This will eventually mean if you choose vitrified tiles over ceramic or even move a plug point you are not going to get a single penny.

Sobha is absolutly insensitive to customer's problems.

Quality I cannot comment as of now since I havnt started living in one.

I guess sobha is better than other builders in terms of quality. I hope this is not just a guess and its reality, which I will come to know once I start living in it. God knows when.

So if you are looking for a good appt, but do not care when u are going to get it( if they say proj delivery as one year, add 1.5 years to it. thats when u may get the flat), do not have much problem in paying all the pre-emi, do not have problem with losing tax exepmtions as per ur plan, then go for it.

otherwise look else where.

Good luck on ur hunt.

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