basics of real estate

If you are planning to buy a house in the short term, LTV Ratio or Loan to Value Ratio is something that is going to add to your misery. RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has come up with a new rule that might derail your short term plans of owning a dream home. The guidelinesRead More

Real Estate as an investment class is very close to Indians. We always derive more satisfaction and happiness at something which we procure ourselves and which is tangible and if that happens to be a house we want to live in, then the satisfaction is more consummate. So here it is – in continuation ofRead More

For the first time in the real estate market in India, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel which the builders have dug deep for poor investors. CRISIL has come out with Real Estate Star ratings in August 2010 to assess and certify real estate projects in India.  This is first ofRead More

What is cost inflation index and indexation ? To understand indexation, let us quickly see what we mean by capital gains. If you sell an asset such as real estate, stocks, mutual funds, jewelery etc, you earn a profit from such a transaction. This profit is called capital gain. If you sell an asset afterRead More