Guides
Buying a home, explained properly.
We would rather you arrived already knowing the things a salesperson is not going to volunteer.
Why these exist
The questions buyers actually ask us.
Not market commentary, and not press releases. These are the things we end up explaining across a table often enough that they were worth writing down properly, so you can read them before you speak to anybody — including us.
Mundhwa or Hadapsar?
Two neighbours, two very different kinds of stock, and a project we represent in each — compared on both developers’ own distances.
Read the guideMundhwa or Kharadi?
The comparison we are asked to make more than any other. Here it is written down, including the parts that count against the address we happen to represent.
Read the guideWhere to live if you work in Kharadi
EON and the World Trade Center pull thousands of people east every morning. These are the four places they end up choosing between, and what each one costs you.
Read the guideWhere to live if you work in Hinjewadi
Hinjewadi, Wakad, Punawale, Baner: five places West Pune’s IT commuters choose between, what each trades away, and what the metro and the monsoon change.
Read the guidePunawale or Wakad?
Neighbours on the same highway with the same commute into Hinjewadi. The established suburb with the metro station, or the newer one still being built.
Read the guideYashada EVO, reviewed by its channel partner
The conflict declared up front, no score, and the facts from the developer’s own documents: five things the project gets right and nine to check before you book.
Read the reviewHow to check a MahaRERA registration yourself
It takes about four minutes, it is free, and it is the single most useful thing you can do before paying anybody a rupee.
Read the guideWhat a flat actually costs
The number on the brochure is not the number that leaves your account. Here is everything that sits on top of it, and why an under-construction home and a ready one cannot be compared on sticker price.
Read the guideEMI on a ₹1 crore home loan
The monthly EMI at every common rate and tenure, the interest you pay in total, the deposit a bank needs from you, and a calculator for your own numbers.
Read the guideCarpet area, built-up, super built-up
Three numbers describe the same flat. One of them is defined in law. The other two are defined by whoever is selling.
Read the guideWhat “pre-launch” actually means
It is one of the most used words in Indian property marketing and one of the least explained. Here is the version with the caveats left in.
Read the guideWho pays the agent?
A question buyers are oddly reluctant to ask out loud, and the answer changes how you should read everything an agent tells you. Including us.
Read the guideWhat you will not find here
Price predictions, “best investment” lists and drive times measured at an hour nobody names. We are a MahaRERA-registered agent, which means the regulator has a claim on every statement made here, and we would rather leave a number out than publish one we cannot attribute.
Where a figure appears — a distance, a stamp duty rate, a statutory definition — its source and its date are named next to it. More about how we work.
Questions we have not answered here?
Ask us directly. We would rather talk you out of the wrong home than into it.