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How Under Construction apartments cost you more than Ready to Move?

When I said it in one of the podcasts that it is better to buy a Ready to Move apartment as it is never a costly proposition, as perceived by the home buyers at large. Compared to Under Construction, a Ready to Move apartment is loaded with execution assurance, peace of mind, and almost no additional financial burden. Ever since that I was flooded with very many queries to elaborate on the same. The questions are being raised by not just the critics within the built environment of Indian real estate this time who love to hate my critical take on the sector. A number of concerned home buyers too asked me in the comment section of the podcast to delve deeper for their better understanding. 

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Why should you have real estate in an investment portfolio?

Whether one should have real estate in the portfolio of investments or not is an age-old debate. World over, it is as much a topic of discussion within the built environment of real estate as with personal finance. Arguments on both sides of the divide have their own merit, but the fact remains that there is no one size fits all answer. The personal finance pros believe that stock market & mutual funds reward are far greater in the range of 14-18% per annum. The real estate proponents, on the other hand, assert that real estate rewards are no less over a longer period of time, and it also saves the investors from the cyclic high market volatility. A Track2Realty report.   

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Stock market correction doesn’t make sense for property purchase

The recent correction of Indian stock market has reignited the age-old debate of real estate versus stock market. In the last few weeks I am asked at various forum, it’s rather bombardment of arguments, why I don’t accept the reality of property market being a safer bet with lesser volatility. A little bit of correction in stock market makes every stakeholders & influencers of property cite it as to how property is the safest asset class. All that I can say is that I am amused with the logic, or rather lack of it.

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Are properties near airport really attractive?

The report of a property consultancy firm about sizeable appreciation of properties and record demand for plots around upcoming Jewar Airport at Yamuna Expressway has yet again brought the spotlight back on properties closer to airports. Such reports tempts an average Indian looking for a property as an investment. Someone having option of only one property often fails prey to FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) by such reports.

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Can Union Budget 2025 fix larger real estate problems?

Can Union Budget 2025 fix the larger problems afflicting the business of Indian real estate? This question is more relevant than asking to what extent the Union Finance Minister will fulfill the wishes of the sector. This is because the real estate has largely been ignored, heavily taxed, and least considered in the budget of last few years. Irony is that for some strange reasons the stakeholders who have a large wish list on the eve of Union Budget every year, justify the sector being ignored in the post budget analysis.

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Real estate accepts reality of declining sales & high prices in 2025

After influence peddling with a false narrative of ‘All is Well’ for so long the built environment of Indian real estate has finally conceded to the reality of headwinds. At the beginning of the yeart 2025 a section of stakeholders are accepting for the first time that declining home sales and high prices are going to hurt in the year ahead. However, they are yet to come to terms with their own faultlines. Track2Realty questions whether talking about the need to lower home loan interest rates and some concessions with the upcoming Union Budget is going to make any tangible difference.

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Consultants for ornamental value to India’s Housing Ministry?

Are you aware that the Housing Ministry of the Government of India is spending an exorbitant amount of money for your welfare? You may be having many grievances with the ways & means of Indian housing and urban development; how they fail to address the core issues. But when you get to know that the Government of India has many white elephants employed with the ministry at the cost of tax payers’ money, it only adds insult to your injury. After all, PPT presentations and high-flying proposals on paper is not going to change anything for a common man.  

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Lengthy & costly litigation helps builders to define law as per their fancy

Despite several rulings defining the set principles of law, the builders continue to define law as per their fancy. After all they are fully conscious of the fact that the poor home buyers have limited resources to get into lengthy and costly litigation. The omissions by the lower courts more often than not emboldens these builders.  Ravi Sinha reports about another landmark ruling by the apex consumer court, NCDRC (National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission).

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Why can’t home buyers define demand for the real estate projects?

At a time when there is a mad rush to launch new projects in & around the airports across the cities of India, a developer in Bengaluru opted to go in the diametrically opposite direction. Prima facie, what appeared to be a case of finding a better or affordable land parcel in that given location of South-West Bengaluru had a strategy that very few adopt in the business of Indian real estate. The strategy to define demand through scientific research. The demand in the market was assessed with consumer psychograph study – what consumers want; what they need; where are the gaps; and how a new housing project could fill in that gap.

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How do you assess the true value of your house?

The market price of property in India is not always in sync with its intrinsic value. The home buying experience of Rajesh Kalra, a professional in Mohali, soured at the time of possession. He had negotiated with the builder and till that point of time believed that with his negotiation skills he made a good bargain for the same. But once in the house he got to know through the neighbour next door that the other person bought at around INR 4 lakh lesser price.

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