Project type and property type
The project type (New Development or Redevelopment) decides whether the project has a society, members and offers; the property type (Residential, Commercial or Mixed) decides which unit types its towers, configurations and pricing plans may use.
Project type and property type
Every project has two kinds. The project type says what sort of development it is: a New Development ("Fresh construction on the site; inventory is sold through bookings.") or a Redevelopment ("An existing society is rebuilt; members get term sheets before sale inventory is offered."). The property type says what it is made of: Residential, Commercial or Mixed. The first decides whether the project carries a society, its members and their offers; the second decides which unit types the project may hold.
How it works in NirmaanOne
Choosing them
Both are required on New project: Project type as two radio cards and Property type as a select. Both can be changed later on Edit project by anyone with the Edit permission on Projects; nothing stops the change even after members, offers or units exist, so change with care. The project's two badges show the types on the project header and in the Projects list, where you can also filter by either. The first type is labelled New Development in the filter and the badges but New development on the create form; they are the same type. The second is Redevelopment everywhere on screen, though a server message may spell it "ReDevelopment".
What the project type changes
On a Redevelopment project:
- the Society & Tenants tab is shown (with any permission on Societies), where the society is linked, its members entered and their offers drafted;
- the setup wizard has the steps Society, Existing members and Offers;
- Edit project and the wizard's Land & RERA step show the section Development agreement (Development agreement date, Fair value of the development rights (optional)), and the project's Settings tab shows Carpet area offered (Mofa), the uplift percentage that fills an offer's entitled area by default;
- offers to society members are allowed. On any other type the server refuses one: "Society member termsheets exist only on ReDevelopment projects".
On a New Development the tab, the steps and the section are absent. Landowners and PAP tenants are project-level allottees rather than society members, but the screens for recording them and drafting their offers are on the Society & Tenants tab, so in practice they are handled on redevelopment projects. The Tenant Benefits tab shows on both types. Allocating a parking slot to a member from the Parking tab needs a linked society, so it applies to redevelopments.
Switching a project away from Redevelopment hides the Society & Tenants tab, the Development agreement section and the Carpet area offered (Mofa) field; the society, members and offers themselves are not deleted.
What the property type changes
Unit types are an organization lookup (Settings, Lookups, Unit types), and each type says whether it Suits residential projects ("Offered on Residential and Mixed projects") and whether it Suits commercial projects ("Offered on Commercial and Mixed projects"). The seeded types are Apartment (residential), Office and Shop (commercial). A project's property type then narrows what may be used:
| Property type | Unit types offered |
|---|---|
| Residential | types that suit residential projects |
| Commercial | types that suit commercial projects |
| Mixed | every active type, including one that suits neither side yet |
This applies wherever a unit type is picked on screen: the unit panel and the generator on Structure, the unit configurations offered for the project, the Unit type of a pricing plan and the Preferred unit type of an opportunity. A type that does not suit the project is refused with "<Type> is not a unit type for a <property type> project; change the project's property type, or mark the unit type as suiting it under Settings > Lookups". On a Mixed project with no floor ranges yet, the generator offers Start from a mixed-use template (shops, parking, offices, apartments), which lays out shops on the ground floor, parking on floors 1 to 3, offices on 4 and 5 and apartments above.
Why two kinds
A redevelopment starts from the people who already live on the site: the society, its members' existing flats and what each is offered, before any unit is sold. A new development starts from the inventory. Keeping the rehab screens off new developments keeps them simple, while the property type stops a Residential project from accidentally holding offices or a Commercial one from pricing apartments.
Example
Skyline Heights is created as a Redevelopment, Residential project. Its header shows the two badges, the Society & Tenants tab appears, and the wizard walks through Society, Existing members and Offers after the structure step. The project's Settings tab shows Carpet area offered (Mofa), where the project manager types 8 as the guidance.
On Structure, the site engineer can pick only Apartment as the unit type, and the configuration list offers Studio, 1 BHK, 2 BHK and so on. When he tries to add a ground-floor unit typed Shop for the society office, the app answers "Shop is not a unit type for a Residential project; change the project's property type, or mark the unit type as suiting it under Settings > Lookups". The administrator changes the property type to Mixed on Edit project; now Shop and Office are offered as well, a Shop pricing plan can be created, and the generator offers the mixed-use template on an empty tower.
The developer's other project, Marine Vista, is a New Development, Commercial project: no Society & Tenants tab, no Development agreement section, no Carpet area offered (Mofa) field, only Office and Shop as unit types, and its buyers come through opportunities, estimates and bookings alone.
Where you see it
- Projects: the type badges and filters.
- New project and Edit project: the two fields and the Development agreement section; Project settings: Carpet area offered (Mofa).
- Project overview and the Project setup wizard: the tabs and steps that depend on the project type.
- Structure and Unit pricing: the unit types offered.
- Society & Tenants: redevelopments only.
- Parking: Allocate to member.
- Lookups: the unit types and their suits flags.
Related
Related
- ProjectsScreen
The list of every project in your organization, with search, type filters and shortcuts to open, set up or edit a project.
- New projectScreen
Create a project from its name, type, promoter entity and site address, then carry on in the setup wizard.
- Edit projectScreen
Change a project's facts on one page: basics, site address, land survey details and expected possession, and, on a redevelopment, the development agreement date and the fair value of the development rights. The settings the project inherits from the organization live on its Settings tab.
- Project overviewScreen
A project's home page: its details, site, land, RERA registration, inventory summary, whether it is ready to sell and collect, where its money stands across its RERA accounts, and the setup checklist.
- Project setup wizardScreen
Set up a project step by step, from the land and RERA details and bank accounts to towers, society, members, offers, amenities, parking, stages and pricing; each step saves as you go.
- StructureScreen
Build and maintain a project's towers (wings), floors and units, generate them in bulk, and see every unit's status and designation at a glance.
- Unit PricingScreen
Keep the project's pricing plans, one per unit type: the sale charges by charge group with GST per line, how each charge group is collected, and a preview of the price and payment schedule on a real unit.
- Society & TenantsScreen
On a redevelopment project, link the society being redeveloped, keep its members and the project's landowners and PAP tenants, and give each of them an offer that allots new units and sets the benefits the developer pays.
- ParkingScreen
Set up the project's parking areas (basement, podium, stilt) and their numbered parking slots, see who holds each parking slot, and allocate parking slots to society members.
- Tenant BenefitsScreen
Keep ready-made benefit plans (corpus, transit rent, shifting…) that a rehab officer applies to an allottee's offer in one go.
- LookupsScreen
The dropdown lists every form draws on: contact types, lead sources, activity types, company types, bank account purposes, parking types, amenities, unit types and unit configurations.
- Unit types and unit configurations (typologies)Concept
A unit type says what kind of unit it is (Apartment, Office, Shop, Showroom) and which property types it suits; a unit configuration is the typology (2 BHK, Penthouse, Office) made of a name, a unit type and a bedroom count, with the areas kept on each unit.
- Allottees: society members, landowners and PAP tenantsConcept
The people who receive new units through an offer on a redevelopment: society members (under the society, with an existing flat and consent), landowners and PAP tenants (under the project); each is a contact with co-owners, one live offer per project, documents, bank accounts and parking.
- Member offer (term sheet): benefits and charges, never nettedConcept
The one live offer an allottee has on a project: the area they hold and are entitled to, the new units allotted, and the money on both sides, benefits the developer pays and charges the member pays, each with its own schedule and never set off against the other.
- Entitlement: existing carpet, entitled area, uplift, extra area and the splitConcept
The area figures on an allottee's offer: the carpet they hold today, the area they are entitled to (typed, or filled from the project's uplift guidance or the allotted units), the extra area the allotted units give beyond it, and how the entitlement is split across the units to fix what each one charges for.
- Promoter entityConcept
The company developing a project; every project must name one, and its books and bank accounts are where the project's demands, receipts and payouts are posted.
- Unit type, configuration or plan does not suit the project or the unitTroubleshooting
A unit type must suit the project's property type (its Suits residential / Suits commercial ticks under Lookups), a configuration must be active and of the same type as the unit, a pricing plan prices only units of its own type, and sheets must name unit types that exist.