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At Yahoo: Seven myths of buying pre-construction apartments

At Yahoo, I write: Seven myths of buying pre-construction apartments Buying a house that will be constructed in the next few years is perhaps the only way a ...

WSJ: The Myth Of Indian Realty

Harsh Joshi at The Wall Street Journal: Low interest rates, a rapidly recovering economy, and India’s never-ending demand for housing: it all adds up to ...

Mortgage Prepayment Penalty To Be Removed?

ET: RBI may shelve prepayment penalties on home loans The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to direct banks to stop levying penalty on pre-payment of retail ...

Can't Outsource Due Diligence on Homes to the Financing Bank

A new ICICI Home Finance advertisement on TV (no link) shows a young man telling his dad about his decision to buy a house. The father wisely tells the son ...

Omaxe Axing Projects, Owners Furious

Praveen Singh at the Indian Express on property developer Omaxe’s Execution Failure: PM Senthil Kumar, a Delhi-based executive, booked a flat in ...

Too Much Pain Buying “Under Construction” Properties (Or “Holes In The Ground”)

I haven’t bought a house or apartment, because houses are WAY overpriced ever since I could afford one. Also the rent-versus-buy argument is much skewed ...

Low Cost Housing – Not quite "Altruistic"

Forbes India on Jerry Rao’s New New Thing: His hypothesis is a simple one. India’s real estate boom was built around its emerging middle class. Nobody ...

Commercial Real Estate in the US: A time bomb? (Zero Hedge)

Zero Hedge does it again, with the One Trillion Dollar CRE Time Bomb. If I really wanted to trap the essence of that article I’d have to post it in full, ...

Real Estate: Debt Load Immense

From LiveMint: Real Estate cos headed for a debt trap? People familiar with the developments say DLF’s debt is around Rs15,000 crore. On an average, the ...

China: Loans diverted to stocks, but not real estate

Bloomberg: Chinese loans diverted to stocks As much as 660 billion yuan ($97 billion) may have been converted by companies into term deposits or used to buy ...