What NCR residential actually yields, net of everything
Gross yield is the number on the brochure. Net yield is the number in your bank account. The gap is wider than most buyers expect.
9 min read ↗NRISelling Indian property as a non-resident: TDS, Form 13 and repatriation
The tax is deducted on the sale value, not the gain, and it is deducted before you see the money. Applying for relief afterwards is far harder than applying before.
11 min read ↗MethodThe five-layer evaluation, applied to a project we declined
A walk through the framework on a corridor development that scored well on three layers and failed on two. The reasoning, in the order it happened.
10 min read ↗CorridorBuying land on the Yamuna Expressway: eleven questions to ask first
The Jewar corridor is the clearest infrastructure story in the region. It is also early, illiquid and long. These are the questions that separate a position from a gamble.
8 min read ↗GoaGoa: the three documents that decide a purchase
Goa is the one market where use, income and appreciation genuinely overlap. It is also the market where title complexity catches out the most buyers.
9 min read ↗DeveloperReading a developer before you sign
The single largest determinant of whether an under-construction purchase works out is who is building it. Most of what you need is public.
8 min read ↗Our standard
We publish only what we can show the working for.
There is no shortage of property commentary in this market. Most of it recycles developer press releases and quotes appreciation figures with no stated method, no sample and no period.
Nothing here contains a market statistic we cannot source, and where we use figures to illustrate a calculation we say so plainly and give you the tool to run your own. Where the subject touches tax or law, we describe the mechanism and tell you to take proper advice, because we are a real estate agent and not your accountant.
Make property decisions with the working shown.
Buy what stands up to five layers of scrutiny. Then let someone else deal with the tenants.