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Indians buying properties in the US
Track2Realty: Earlier in October, the US National Association of Realtors published a report which stated that buyers from India purchased residential properties in the US estimated at $5.8 billion in value during the one-year period ending March 2014.
Negotiate your neighbourhood with group buying schemes-II
Track2Realty Exclusive: The way group buying in real estate works is simple. Take GrOffr.com for instance. This is an online and offline integrated platform which showcases property. It uses social media networks to let buyers know about possible good deals, and leaving it to them to do some viral marketing. Once a large group of buyers is thus formed, the group buying site then introduces it to the network of dealers and developers and helps negotiate a suitable discount.
Negotiate your neighbourhood with group buying schemes-I
Track2Realty Exclusive: Group buying is emerging as a win-win situation for both the buyers and the developers.Track2Realty talks to all the concerned parties in the deal to find that while it saves the marketing cost of the developers and increases the bargain of the buyers, in no way it cuts the role of the intermediaries as well, thus making it the most lucrative marketing model for all in the future.
Indians prefer ready-to-move house; find new launches risky
While buying a house majority of the Indians have now matured to pay for ready-to-move property than a castle in the air. No wonder, despite the high appreciation potential, the new launched projects have few takers and there is hardly any market for a pre-launch offer. Thanks to the poor delivery of the real estate developers, unmet commitments and execution risk involved, at least the end users are not interested in new launches anymore.
Home buying tips: when should you take the plunge?
There is a school of thought that states that you should buy a home as soon as you can afford it, or as soon as your home loan application is approved. In fact, the only question one tends to ask in context with home buying is whether property prices and interest rates are amenable at that point in time or not. On the surface, this makes sense. However, not all surfaces are reliable mirrors.
Safeguard your home buying against dicey deals
In the year 2007 Preeti Banerjee bought a house in Royal Legacy, Vasundhara, Ghaziabad with the obvious high expectations of moving into a hassle free living. However, the dreams were soon shattered and she was exposed to the agony of an average middle class home buyer, often left alone at the mercy of the builders.
“What if” buzz word of home buyers in 2022
2022 won’t be an easy year for the average Indian home buyer in terms of making a conscious decision of buying a house. The fundamentals of the market and macroeconomic outlook indicates 2022 could be even more challenging than 2021 for more than one reason. The rising input cost of construction has put a serious question mark over the feasibility of the business in a price sensitive market. Many of the developers with thin profit margins are facing a catch-22 where the input cost hike is compelling for escalation but the demand side is not ready to absorb the hike.
More women to defer marriage for property
The survey clearly suggests marriage is as much a choice for women as mortgage, and marriage is definitely not predestination of home ownership. Even among the married couples the role of the women is changing and they are increasingly getting on the driver’s seat when buying a house.
RERA to end uncertainty in Goa real estate
Goa real estate has been witness to a prolonged spell of slowdown and both the homebuyers as well as the developers have waited for long to see a turnaround. Slow moving market, demonetization, GST and RERA have collectively led to a situation where the fence sitting buyers have preferred to defer their decision of buying a house. While the first three factors have dented their confidence, RER