CREATING WEALTH IN REAL ESTATE (INDIA)– THE GROUND REALTY APPROACH Sam Joseph, the CEO of a large MNC organization in Gurgaon, on his return from the USA, was introduced to me, at a social function. When we exchanged cards, the inevitable topic of Realty Investments came up. As is wont to happen with most [...]
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Do-Rent to create wealth in Real Estate
Posted in August 12th, 2008
Mr. Saluja, aged 62, wanted to gift his daughter a regular disposable income, rather than an asset. He booked a 1000 sft demarcated office space in a corporate tower in Gurgaon, in year 2002. That year, he bought it @ INR 3200 per sft. In 2004, when took possession of the same, he started getting [...]
PEOPLE BUY PEOPLE, NOT PRODUCTS
Posted in August 7th, 2008
This is an interesting story, maybe, unknowingly planned many years back… but, being reported after time. This story dates back to 1996, when I was part of the Automotive tyres industry. As a branch head then, I used to toy with ideas, which many would not have agreed with me, then. Also, I used to [...]
NDTV interview-DDA allottments
Posted in August 6th, 2008
I got a call from late last evening from an executive from NDTV, who wanted to know some details about the new allotment of flats by DDA, in Delhi. We exchanged some thoughts and facts, as has been published by the media, and that gathered through the diligent research undertaken by my organization (rather inferred), [...]
7-Ps OF SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
Posted in August 2nd, 2008
The past four years of my experience in the real estate sector have been fairly eventful. We have been privy to three sales cycles in the project marketing. I call these the “realization cycle of the components”. Let us have a look at all the three stages that we have seen in the past [...]