E4: OPTIMIZING TRANSACTION PROCESS AND COSTS IN CONVERS

Tambat Anushka Bhuvaneshwar

UH4002

This Housing Strategy Studio, anchored in the urban context of Surat, focuses on decoding and restructuring the transactional journey from land to built space. It critically examines institutional and regulatory interfaces such as land titling, development permissions, layout approvals, and service provisioning that often delay or inflate the cost of housing supply. Through a layered analysis of primary and secondary data, the studio explores how inefficiencies in these transaction chains impact housing affordability and market responsiveness. By simulating future housing needs and assessing the socio-spatial demand spectrum, it proposes enabling strategies to simplify procedural frameworks, integrate digital governance tools, and reduce entry barriers for formal housing markets. The goal is to make the urban land market more transparent, predictable, and capable of supporting inclusive housing outcomes. Studio Introduction: Introduces the objective of optimizing transaction processes to improve housing delivery in Surat.

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Outlining the studio’s vision to develop a citywide housing strategy through thematic exploration and spatial interventions.

Understanding Ease Of doing Business report to Analyze Surat’s lengthy approval timelines and highlights the need for regulatory reform.

Understanding The land revenue laws and administrative delays impacting housing supply and affordability.

Breaks down the complex multi-agency approval system and its limitations in Surat. With Number of Days in each processes

Compares transaction timelines across land tenure types and regulatory requirements. From Simplest Case to the most complex case

Presents real project examples to demonstrate how procedural delays affect cost and time. With the help of RERA data

A to NA & Stamp Duty Reform Suggests integrating tenure and land use conversions and reducing stamp duty burden.

Systemic Integration Proposes a unified digital approval system to reduce transaction time by over 200 days.

This Sheet Summarizes how streamlined processes improve housing affordability and developer feasibility.

Reflections on studio insights, stakeholder roles, and strategies to enhance housing accessibility.