Very useful post, thanks jackalbda for taking time to post your experience in such detail.

Hi, As I have tuned a little towards apartment buying, if this forum experts can help me in evaluating postives and negatives with apartments, that would be of great help. I searched in the net. But I couldn't find this exact detail. This topic has been discussed in various forums all over the plac...

Praveen,

Thank you so much for the review. It will definitely be a big help for the prospective buyers.

I had the same dilemma when I started constructing my house a few months back. After some research I opted to use red bricks. Bricks have better thermal properties compared to cement blocks - inside of the house will be cooler than the outside. My suggestion is that if you are building the house for...

First of all there is no such thing as 'accurate price' in Indian real estate scenario. It is always a function of how desperate either seller or buyer to finish the transaction. RE transactions are so opaque it is very difficult to find out what price a property was sold because in most of the tran...

I am sorry for but I have no understanding of set backs,violations. In simple terms if I buy a 30X50 site then can I build a 3 Bedroom house in that .? You can build a house with any number of bed rooms on any size site. There is no law limiting the number of bed rooms depending upon the site size....

In my opinion, a 3BHK house should be at least 1600 sqft in size to have sufficiently sized living room and bed rooms. So a site of 2000 sft is minimum.
Of course you can also build a 1200 sft house with 3 bed rooms, but the rooms will have to be very small.

Hi, how is the sand measured. Is it in Cubic meters(CUM)? If yes, how many CUM of sand does 1 full truck load of sand contains? Also my engineer is telling that he will be using river sand and it will be red coloured sand. Will the river sand be reddish in color. Is my contractor misleading me? San...

But i have few questions regarding this. 1) A site approved by BDA can have A khata or B Khata. Is it safe to buy a B Khata site? E.g. in AECS layout (BDA approved layout near kudlu), some sites have B Khata. Deepak I have some doubts about the above statement. How can a site which is approved by B...

prashet, There is a huge development difference between 5th stage(ecopack site) and 7th stage.Till 5th stage passing through 3rd ,4th you can see good commercial establishments too on the main road. But i not sure of running price in 5th stage,about 6months when i checked with a broker he quoted 35...