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What Are Some Selected Areas for Low Budget Properties in Kolkata for Investment?

What Are Some Selected Areas for Low Budget Properties in Kolkata for Investment?

After gold, if there’s any other form of investment that guarantees returns, it is real estate. Despite economic reforms, global crisis and meltdowns, the search for a perfect home by realty end users seem to be quite palpable in various parts of India including Kolkata. Keeping this trend in view, Kolkata real estate developers are…

What You Should Know About GST Impact on Home Prices

What You Should Know About GST Impact on Home Prices

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is finally here and will be effective across the country from 1st July 2017. The new uniform tax regime has been formed to do away with the overlapping, double taxation system prevalent in our economy, saving end-users from shelling out various taxes on the same product at different levels. However,…

What to Look for While Choosing the Best School for Your Child

What to Look for While Choosing the Best School for Your Child

As a parent, you’d only want to make the best choices for your child. And, choosing the best school for your child is definitely a choice you’d want to get right. However, young parents can feel a bit clueless or challenged when it comes to deciding which school would be the best for their kids….

Steps You Should Take to Ensure the Safety of Your Home

Steps You Should Take to Ensure the Safety of Your Home

Authorities are reporting an exponential rise in burglaries and sophisticated break-ins as working couples, single parents, nuclear families, and fast-paced life are increasingly becoming the new normal rather than being an exception like it used to be a few decades back. Srinjoy Chatterjee, a businessman living in an independent bungalow in Kolkata’s Salt Lake City,…

Should We Have More Green Buildings in Kolkata?

Should We Have More Green Buildings in Kolkata?

Going green is the new trend worldwide, and India’s realty sector isn’t falling behind in this regard. From malls to office spaces, and residential units, buildings are increasingly becoming eco-friendly. With the city’s IT hub — Salt Lake — getting its first eco-friendly commercial building, Technopolis, in 2006, Kolkata entered the ‘green’ brigade pretty early…

Why It Is Wiser to Buy a Flat in Kolkata Than Renting One

Why It Is Wiser to Buy a Flat in Kolkata Than Renting One

Buying a home is perhaps the most common and the biggest dream of every Indian. Though owning a home in our society has a high level of emotional quotient, the decision has to be prudent, and backed by financial viability.  An incorrect assessment can lead to financial difficulties like an overloaded debt. The union government’s…

Some Great Locations to Buy Flats in Kolkata for Investment

Some Great Locations to Buy Flats in Kolkata for Investment

As spaces for new development in mainland Kolkata shrink with time, locations around the fringes of the city are rapidly emerging as the nerve centre of Kolkata’s real estate investment, promising impressive returns over a mid to long-term time spread. These areas, which have already grabbed the attention of real estate investors, are increasingly becoming…

How Carpet Area Based Pricing Can Affect Home Prices

How Carpet Area Based Pricing Can Affect Home Prices

The Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA), the central law that came into force on 1st May 2016, stipulates every state to implement the act within a year’s timeframe. As we are approaching 1st May 2017, RERA is still under the process of implementation in West Bengal although it is unlikely to meet the deadline. But…

What’s Turning Kamalgazi into an Ideal Location for Home Buyers?

What’s Turning Kamalgazi into an Ideal Location for Home Buyers?

When IT professionals, Pratul and Seema Barik were planning to shift base from Chennai to Kolkata, they were looking for a south Kolkata locality that could give them quality lifestyle at an affordable price. When a friend suggested Kamalgazi off Garia, they weren’t quite sure. But, after a week of research and talking to some relatives,…