45-year-old banker and a resident of Kolkata, Tuhin and his wife, Nira were planning to move closer to their daughter who lived in Hyderabad. But they didn’t want to sell off their 2 BHK apartment in Southern Avenue. The next best thing was to put it out on rent. Tuhin is not alone; a property […]

45-year-old Ambarish Ghosh, a photojournalist, recently moved out of his old house in Maniktala to settle into his new 3 BHK apartment near Acropolis Mall in Kasba. However, he wasn’t so convinced about shifting to this location, until he visited the project site two years ago. He was surprised to find that the Kasba he […]

When you are scouting for your dream home, you would often be confronted with various real estate jargon. Of late, one such term, doing the rounds in the real estate domain, is Preferential Location Charges, commonly known as PLC. The term, which was popular in celebrity locales until now, is increasingly making its way into […]

Thousands of Indians buy their dream homes every year but rarely do they save like Mr. and Mrs. Khanna. The couple straightway saved 2% of the property value, when they purchased a new home in New Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area. So what’s the catch? No bizarre deals, no raining discounts, nothing at all. Mr. Khanna […]

When Amit Guha, a 42 year-old financial analyst, applied for a home loan, he was pretty sure he would get it. After all, he had a good job and a decent financial history — there was nothing to worry. But he was surprised to find out that the bank had rejected his home loan application. […]

Little did Ritwik Banerjee, a 35-year-old Kolkata-based software engineer, know about ‘credit score’, before his home loan application got rejected by a multinational bank in the city. It was a rude shock for the young man, when the bank told him that his credit score was not good enough, rather, below the accepted limits. So […]