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Banks Get the Noida Jitters

It seems banks are looking to approach RBI for a special dispensation for the money lent to homes in Noida Extension where the supreme court has said that the ...

The Non-Universal Price-To-Income Ratio

Often, to figure out if a country is in a real estate bubble, what is measured is a price-to-income ratio. That is, a house price divided by the income of the ...

Chinese Housing Prices Are Down, Indian Are Up

From the WSJ: The Great Property Bubble Of China May Be Popping After years of housing prices gone wild, China’s property bubble is starting to deflate. ...

Indians Go To America to Buy Houses

With the real estate situation in India getting too hot, it seems our folks have found better opportunities elsewhere. Rohit Prakash, based in Austin, Texas , ...

Video: China's Ghost Cities and Malls

An incredible video by the Australian SBS DateLine on China. 64 million apartments are empty!   The empty malls and overconstruction seems just like ...

Real Estate Return Guarantees And A Warning

I got a couple of emails that asked me about the new phase of real estate offers that go something like this:   (Yes, it’s real. Actual screen shot ...

HDFC Ups RPLR to 15%

(Thanks to @Work_ant for mentioning this) HDFC increased its Retail Prime Lending Rate (RPLR) to 15% yesterday – see pic below – , up 75 basis points ...

The Bribery Scam: Negative for Real Estate

The CBI yesterday busted a scam where executives in banks and fin-organizations took bribes (surprise!) to give real estate developers large loans. Among the ...

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 ...