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Forget about the bull or bear mindset... home is an important thing and very emotional as well... so go ahead and buy it if you can afford it (and continue to afford till it is fully paid off). RE as an investment on leveraged money (loan) is a bad idea since the returns may be well below the simplest avenues like FD and it has much less liquidity. It also involves a lot of speculation. RE as an investment with 100% downpayment. If you are in this category, i dont think you would be here... you would be busy in meetings on how to tackle Anna Hazare's crusade against you... :D And finally the second statement which I liked is below![/QUOTE] The important thing lies in your sentence that says "so go ahead and buy if you can afford it". I would say, 99% of the people who are seeking flats in Pune for end uses, can't afford the current prices. Only people who have already one flat (bought in 2004-2007) and net in hand income more than 1L, can buy at current rate for investment, and they are buying indeed as they have seen the growth in RE in last decade. The bull and bear cycle theory won't last long (at max couple of more cycles) before it comes to stabilize level ( which should be 30% less than current prices, if we see afford ability). RE Prices in metro cities are now comparable with developed countries RE prices, how can be the prices in the same range? how it will be sustained, when there is huge difference in GDP, per capita income and more importantly individual salaries? I could imagine if salaried people buy the flats at current rates, there will be huge financial disaster followed by emotional disaster in India." 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there are two very relevant and important statements which i liked... one of them is as below
The above thing is valid for anyone. Forget about the bull or bear mindset... home is an important thing and very emotional as well... so go ahead and buy it if you can afford it (and continue to afford till it is fully paid off).
RE as an investment on leveraged money (loan) is a bad idea since the returns may be well below the simplest avenues like FD and it has much less liquidity. It also involves a lot of speculation.
RE as an investment with 100% downpayment. If you are in this category, i dont think you would be here... you would be busy in meetings on how to tackle Anna Hazare's crusade against you...
And finally the second statement which I liked is below!
The above thing is valid for anyone. Forget about the bull or bear mindset... home is an important thing and very emotional as well... so go ahead and buy it if you can afford it (and continue to afford till it is fully paid off).
RE as an investment on leveraged money (loan) is a bad idea since the returns may be well below the simplest avenues like FD and it has much less liquidity. It also involves a lot of speculation.
RE as an investment with 100% downpayment. If you are in this category, i dont think you would be here... you would be busy in meetings on how to tackle Anna Hazare's crusade against you...

And finally the second statement which I liked is below!
The bull and bear cycle theory won't last long (at max couple of more cycles) before it comes to stabilize level ( which should be 30% less than current prices, if we see afford ability). RE Prices in metro cities are now comparable with developed countries RE prices, how can be the prices in the same range? how it will be sustained, when there is huge difference in GDP, per capita income and more importantly individual salaries?
I could imagine if salaried people buy the flats at current rates, there will be huge financial disaster followed by emotional disaster in India.
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