You worked hard—saved for years, cut expenses, watched the market like a hawk, and finally bought your dream home or that perfect plot in Greater Hyderabad. Each month, you pay your EMIs on time, double-check the documents, and sleep soundly, knowing you own that property. Or do you? There’s a growing storm you might not see coming.
Thousands of property owners across Greater Hyderabad face a registration crisis as valid private plots, houses, and apartments in areas like Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, and Kukatpally are wrongly flagged under Section 22-A of the Registration Act as prohibited government or ceiling lands, halting sales and mortgages. Sub-registrar offices are blocking transactions because entire survey numbers are blacklisted due to mapping errors or partial government claims. Because of this, home or land buyers cannot complete purchases, banks are cancelling sanctioned mortgage loans, and owners with decades-old HUDA or HMDA approvals are locked out of selling.
What’s actually happening out there?
Let’s not sugarcoat it. This move has shaken Hyderabad’s real estate market to its core. Over ₹1 Lakh Crore worth of properties—everything from shiny new apartments to commercial complexes and long-held family plots—now sits in this black hole. We’re talking lakhs of homes. Recently, the state government quietly swept a massive number of private properties—you read that right, actual homes and plots—onto something called the 22-A List. Once your property lands there, you can’t sell it, no matter how spotless your paperwork looks. Your name on the documents doesn’t help. The right simply vanishes.
Imagine buying your apartment decades ago, with all the right permissions from the government. You poured your savings into it, followed every rule, and now one notification later, you find your property blacklisted. It’s happening to thousands. People spend their days in endless lines at Collectorates and Registration offices, begging officials for answers.
And it isn’t just families hurting. Banks, who lent out thousands of home and mortgage loans against these very properties, are panicking. With registrations and transfers on sudden lockdown, these loans now look risky. The money they expected to recover is trapped, and the uncertainty keeps growing.
Where is this really happening?
The problem isn’t confined to some forgotten suburb. Some of Hyderabad’s priciest and most popular neighborhoods have been blindsided by the sudden block: Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Gachibowli, Shaikpet, Ameerpet, Khairatabad, Panjagutta, Srinagar Colony, SR Nagar, Erragadda—you name it. The shockwaves stretch into the suburbs and outskirts too: Serilingampally, Rajendranagar, Shamshabad, Maheshwaram, Patancheru, Ramachandrapuram, Ameenpur, Bahadurpally, Quthbullapur, Malkajgiri, Uppal.
Pull back and look at Telangana as a whole. Lakhs of properties are caught in the Section 22-A web. Even more alarming—more than half of these, nearly 54%, are stuck in just four districts: Hyderabad, Medchal-Malkajgiri, Ranga Reddy, and Sangareddy. These are some of the state’s busiest, fastest-growing areas. If your home or plot sits in these zones, you need to take immediate action. Don’t leave it to chance. Go to your local registration office and check your property’s status now. Protect the asset you fought so hard to call your own.
