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Paarth Republic - the only planned township on Kanpur road

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Modern life is busy and full of stress. With the advent of web and mobile telephony, it has become extremely difficult to keep our personal and office time completely separate. The increasing globalization in every job is also overlapping time zones and is bringing a new dimension of stress. Thankfully the town planning has kept pace and ensured that there are separate zones of actions for different kind of activities. Paarth Republic township on Lucknow Kanpur highway has used these concepts of planning to make life for its residents peaceful and enjoyable. This is also the largest township on this side of town, which brings its own unique advantages. Let’s first understand as to what is meant by a planned township. A planned township is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc and organic fashion. We have all seen the chaotic life in unplann...

Infrastructure development in Kanpur road area

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Lucknow has been growing fast over last decade and has been a leading non-metro town when it comes to new developments. While infrastructural developments are happening across the city, the progress in Lucknow-Kanpur road area is quite rapid. And it is quite appropriate considering that this road connects the two most important cities of UP and it has the fastest growing airport east of Delhi airport. The metro connectivity to other parts of city from here ensures a quick and efficient transport system.   Till a few years back, Kanpur road area was not considered to be appropriate for luxury residences . The city was gravitating towards Gomti Nagar and further towards Raebareli road. Amausi airport had not received any expansion for years and connectivity from this area to rest of the places in the city could at best be described as patchy. The ongoing metro work was a nuisance and it was not easy to visualize the advantages of this network in future. But as Lucknow started growin...

Why is RERA important

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In India, owning a home is a dream most people savour through their life. There is only a small percentage of people who get to own their home. Most of us save our lifetime income for buying a home of our dreams. But before buying property lots of questions arise in buyer’s mind. Are we investing in the right location? Will the builder deliver what is promised? Is this builder an honest builder? What clauses should be there in a house buying agreement? To solve this problem the government has introduced RERA for home buyers. Let’s understand in detail as to what is RERA and what does it entail.   Before this regulatory act, some unscrupulous builders and developers of India had their own rules and regulations. The buyers were given almost no choice by such developers. While the buyer was paying for the property and this would be the biggest asset most of them ever invested in their lifetime, a lot of builders avoided sharing the important details with the customer. Tha...

How good is Gomti Nagar extension for property investment

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Lucknow has undoubtedly emerged as a real estate investment hub in last decade or so. While the whole city has seen increasing real estate activities, the localities on Shaheed path (Known as Gomti Nagar extension) have offered better returns and continue to hold their premium position. Let’s look at the reasons as to why this area continues to attract investors -     1.       Well planned development - Gomti Nagar and Gomti nagar extension are one of the largest planned residential areas of Uttar Pradesh. The whole infrastructure development in the area is new and has been planned well. This contributes to a more relaxed living for the residents of this area. 2.       Excellent connectivity - Gomti Nagar extension area is very well connected to the other parts of the city. It has proposed metro connectivity also. The airport and station are connected through special expressway, which avoids the congested city roads. 3. ...

Affordable homes on Kanpur road

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India is a relatively young country with more than 50% of its population below 30 years of age. Youth comes with aspirations and with the world’s largest sub-30 year population, we are rightly called as an aspirational country. This has been clearly demonstrated in choices that this generation makes. Housing sector has also seen the manifestation of this in last few years. The youth of today are widely travelled and have been exposed to new lifestyle choices across the world. They, therefore, look for the same when buying a home. The average age of buying a home is coming down and with it the stress is on proving world class amenities at a price that is affordable for this buying class. This dual challenge presents limited options for property developers. Providing world class amenities to a home buyer who is looking for buying a home in 16-30 lacs is quite tricky. This is the budget which youngsters have been looking out for their dream home in cities like Lucknow and they are disap...

Foreign investments in Indian Real Estate

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Owing to the contributions to the GDP, the Real Estate sector has assumed an important place in the economy. That coupled with the need for state-of-the-art residential and commercial projects, the sector further offers excellent opportunities for investors both from India as well as from outside India. The sector is also receiving excellent government support in terms of policies and regulations. The introduction of REIT as a vehicle that helps the sector raise funds and create more value for the stakeholders, has been cheered widely by investors. Beside, the realty in India now is 100% open for the Foreign Direct Investments.   The foreign investments in property sector in India have increased consistently since 2005, when the sector was opened. A bulk of these investments have come in post 2015, as the sector started offering good opportunities by bringing in more transparency. Of the total investments in Indian Real Estate through foreign investments of US$ 25 billion, ...

Price Trends of Properties in Lucknow

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While looking to buy a new property it helps to check as to how have the prices moved in a particular market. It is important to check this both for the larger city/ geography as well as for the micro-market where one is looking to buy a house.There are several institutions which release data on price trends for major cities in India, however, the one released by National housing bank as NHB Residex is used most often. There are price trend charts also available for different localities within a city as shared by various property portals like 99 acres and magic bricks.  Lucknow is one such market that has continuously shown an upward moving graph for residential properties in all major localities of the town. A generally upward moving graph suggests that the city/ area is being favoured for buying property, while a downward graph is for a city/locality which is not being liked in general. Considering this, study of price trends could be a great starting point...