How a High Credit Score can Benefit You While Taking Home Loan
In an amazing turn of events, homebuyers are suddenly having their cakes and eating them too! In addition to an environment of already low interest rates, several banks and housing finance institutions have further reduced the interest rate to eye-popping figures. Will homebuyers ever again enjoy such favourable environment for buying their chosen homes, once…
How Commercial Real Estate must Respond to Altered Realities
This time it’s different. Far-reaching changes are sweeping the globe and every individual, every business, every industry must respond to the altered realities we are experiencing today. Not responding to these changes and hoping that these changes will somehow not affect any particular business is wishful thinking but not practical. There is no option but…
What are the Different Types of Property Ownership Processes in India?
“We have finally decided to buy a flat. Staying in a rented flat and moving on to a different one every eleven months is hugely unsettling. Buying a flat also gives a lot of social prestige,” said Moonmoon to her father. “Are you looking for a suitable one?” asked her father. “We are. In fact,…
What are the things You Must Know about Home Insurance
Rana Dasgupta lives in a flat near EM Bypass, Kolkata with his wife and 5-year-old son. Rana never thought about home insurance ever in his life. The threat of any damage to his home did not appear normal to him in Kolkata. There is rarely any devastating natural disaster in Kolkata, and in his secured…
Hyderabad Property Market is Showing Interesting Consolidation
The Hyderabad property market is showing interesting consolidation, as evident from our detailed study of market data of the January-June period of the current year. In spite of the 2nd wave of Covid, homebuyers’ interest in acquiring properties is very high, especially among the NRI community. The demand data of the Hyderabad property market has…
Kolkata Property Market is Witnessing Continued Consolidation
Kolkata property market is slowly changing with buyers’ budgets, flat areas, and location preferences. The process of change is gradual but definitive. It seems that homebuyers prefer a few locations in South Kolkata such as Joka or Rajpur Sonarpur, especially for relatively affordable homes, while certain other areas near EM Bypass and Rajarhat New Town…
How You can Take Advantage of Stamp Duty Reduction in West Bengal
Homebuyers are having an extremely favourable opportunity to buy their dream homes for some time now. The home loan interest rate is now at a historic low. Although it is unlikely to go down further as the interest rate cycle may turn upwards from here in view of the elevated threat of inflation raising its…
How Important for Your Home to be Close to a Reliable Hospital?
In the early hours of a chilly December morning, Suchitra’s father was hit by something big. That ‘something’ nearly killed him. Subir Chatterjee, Suchitra’s father is about 67 years old. After an uneventful working life in the Income Tax Department, he has been enjoying the quiet life of a retiree. Staying in a gated community…
What Freedom can Mean to a Homebuyer in 2021?
We are living in times of acute uncertainty, massive disruption, and serious insecurity. The raging pandemic has exposed the fault lines of our mundane urban existence, and we are finding it overwhelming to cope with it. We have experienced insecurities regarding our health, jobs, relationships and often feel that we have got entrapped into an…