Buying a home in India today isn’t just hard, it’s almost absurd. In a LinkedIn post, investment banker Sarthak Ahuja unpacks why urban real estate is slipping further out of reach for the average Indian, and what prospective homebuyers can realistically do about it. “If you look at the Price to Income (P2I) Ratio for … Read more
Popular YouTuber Akshat Shrivastava on Friday stated the 26 percent year-on-year decline in housing sales in the country’s top eight cities during the fourth quarter of 2024. Despite this downturn, Shrivastava emphasized that investors should not lose hope. Real estate experts have attributed the decrease in sales figures to factors such as the assembly elections … Read more
Former Infosys CFO TV Mohandas Pai has questioned the income tax department’s assumptions about property price growth in India. “Can @IncomeTaxIndia please explain how they assumed property prices go up 12-16% per year? RBI says NO, citizens need this answer,” he wrote on X. Pai pointed to a significant disconnect between the tax department’s projections and … Read more