Subra we may be a great marketing and distribution company, but we are no patch on the steel, cement and finance companies. This was said by one of the World’s great FMCG company….this is so true. Let us see how the real estate market works AGAINST the renter and FOR the owner: 1. ‘You cannot […]

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A few days ago I did a sarcastic article on ‘how real estate prices cannot fall at all’….now I am contradicting myself! Two different stories about real estate deals: One person bought in a upcoming luxury project in year a 4bhk house for Rs. 112 Lakhs in dec 2006. In 4 years time, a self […]

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Not sure how many of you will believe this, but when the DLF scrip was quoting at Rs. 1200, I asked the research head of A BIG broking firm – whether it is worth buying. He said ‘Sir based on MY accounting tolerance this share is worth Rs. 400 based on boss’s accounting tolerance and […]

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If you went back in time, most ‘middle class’ people were spending a big fortune of their income on ‘essentials’. Imagine in the 1980s – a person earning Rs. 5000pm (almost a HUGE salary!) – could have been spending Rs. 2000 a month on household expenses. This was about 40% of the take home salary. […]

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I hope Dr. Khan finds this article useful…Arjuna seek your answers here: Many people have been screaming about real estate as an investment. Well I have nothing against it, except that I do not understand it. Given limited brain power, I would rather not do it, instead of making a mess of the same 🙂 […]

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  Most economists you meet or read tell you that the US problem is worse – much worse- than the Euro problem. Many of us think that the Americans have pushed the dollar too far and it has to fail. The American debt, the American bank’s date and the NINJA credit cards, NINJA educational loans, […]

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  Why do I find so many attractive targets to write about? Just found an article on Rediff.com saying ‘Six reasons why property prices WILL NOT FALL in your city’. Let us look at it reason by reason? “Property prices across the country are unlikely to see significant price corrections of more than 10 per […]

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