Property Decoder
@PropertyDecoder
Decoding real estate beyond noise.
So today, I introduce myself as Property Decoder @ Ground Lens — A dedicated consumer centric knowledge platform built to decode how real estate really works. For a long time, I myself have faced a massive gap between what’s projected and what’s real in Indian ‘Real’…
🌻Announcement🌻 A Small Change, A Bigger Purpose After much thought (and a fair share of nervous excitement), I’m making a small but meaningful shift. I started this account on X with a simple intention: to share my learnings, question dominant narratives, and connect with…
If you can afford to choose, what you will buy... Luxury Home in Mumbai/Gurgaon Or a Flat in New York's Lower Manhattan ...for the same price and why?
OK but kindly explain why despite 4 rate cuts this year, housing sales have been going down?
And there so many Adhbhut brokers who keep promising to trade the EOI cheques like lottery tickets and partying everyday at BYOBs adjoining world-class Thekas, even after duping hundreds of investors. Yet how many of them have you seen getting caught by any regulator/authority?…
Avadhut Sathe made more money from illegal advisory than the annual profit of Zomato and Paytm If Mr. Sathe manages to settle this by paying 50 crores to SEBI, there is no point in doing such raids on dancers turned advisors This is India's speculation story
By end of 2030, India Won’t Have One Skyline. It Will Have Many. According to the CTBUH tall-building standard (150m+), CBRE’s report in 2023 finds that Mumbai alone hosts ~77% of India’s tall towers, making it the country’s undisputed vertical capital. And with relentless…
Wow... now this looks like big cultural shift. Excited to see this happening in India... BUT what will happen to this 'depressing' offline/online coaching industry for college entrance exams?
What happens to a society when its smartest teenagers decide college isn’t worth the time and companies start agreeing with them? Palantir just tried something most people thought was unthinkable. It told high school students to skip college, walk past the gatekeepers, and start…
A lot of people look at record-breaking land auctions and immediately assume that housing will keep getting more expensive at the same pace… and that housing is booming or buyers will simply continue absorbing those prices. But this assumption ignores several key realities.…
Seeing some Hyderabad-based real estate handles dismissing this latest news since it came out but this trend actually looks completely in line with the data, when you see RE agencies consistently showing the same things about its overall housing market. Revealing the same things…
Seeing some Hyderabad-based real estate handles dismissing this latest news since it came out but this trend actually looks completely in line with the data, when you see RE agencies consistently showing the same things about its overall housing market. Revealing the same things…
More fun is watching brokers pushing the Rs.40-60k/sqft (on carpet area) projects in Gurgaon, even in weak locations, while confidently promising 3-4x returns by possession. And some people are actually buying that story 😀 Let's see if Gurgaon can really defy fundamentals, beat…
Fun fact: that 48k has remained the same (more or less) for the past decade and a half, while others like Blr & Hyd have moved from 2-3k psf to 15-20k psf during this time. In other words, SoBo (LP to Worli) has actually become more affordable during this period
Around 7–8 years ago, I visited a society in Gurgaon that looked completely rundown.... peeling paint, plaster chipping, tower lobbies in bad condition and even the clubhouse & pool were shut. When I asked a broker why it was in such a state, he gave the standard answer:…
BUT I see a very different reality when it comes to maintenance in societies in most cities. The images in the original post are still far better than what you can witness in this post belong to one of the most ultra-luxury locality of Gurgaon, where homes cost Rs. 40-70 crore…
BUT I see a very different reality when it comes to maintenance in societies in most cities. The images in the original post are still far better than what you can witness in this post belong to one of the most ultra-luxury locality of Gurgaon, where homes cost Rs. 40-70 crore…
Most Indians are value-driven, not spend-driven, and that shows up brutally in maintenance. If you're buying ultra-luxury, buy in a community where everyone can actually afford to maintain it. Because here’s the truth no one tells you: 🛑 A premium project stops looking…
Wow...! This is already happening.
Now concerned about those people who bought Rs. 50-100 crore ultra luxury projects because they were shown Aravalli views... will they even stay now or not? Looks like while they keep showcasing the Aravalli to sell new projects, the Aravalli itself will slowly disappear with…
Now concerned about those people who bought Rs. 50-100 crore ultra luxury projects because they were shown Aravalli views... will they even stay now or not? Looks like while they keep showcasing the Aravalli to sell new projects, the Aravalli itself will slowly disappear with…
When most residential options in Mumbai are within housing societies, it becomes almost inevitable that residents end up living alongside people with influence or local clout. Even if developers avoid selling to such individuals, the resale (secondary) market remains open and…
There’s a reason why many builders don’t sell homes to two-bit politicians.
Tata has paused expansion of its Starbucks outlets in India because the brand’s global model, large 3,000 sqft stores built around selling ~700 cups a day at an avg. price of Rs. 400, proved ill-suited to the Indian market, given competitive pressure and high rentals. Now, if…
The truth about pre-launch and newly launched real estate projects in recent times isn’t very different, steep speculative markups, massive broker commissions... all baked into terrible pricing. The only difference? Unlike stocks, the real estate market doesn’t show the mirror…
Given how hot the IPO market is, I'm hearing some phenomenally stupid stories from the unlisted market. People are blindly punting on so-called "pre-IPO" companies hoping they'll make bigger gains than during the actual IPO. The greed is causing people to ignore some hard…
Housing sales and launches 🔻dipping in tier-2 cities.
It’s not just Tier-1 cities showing housing-slowdown signals anymore. Tier-2 cities are now flashing the same warnings, as this news reveals, with a rising number of delayed projects. Gujarat alone has over 3,000 delayed projects, with Ahmedabad topping the list with 800+…
This is the ground reality of civic infra in India. Govt. authorities grant approvals for large residential and commercial projects, but when it comes to extending civic utilities to those very projects, the same authorities step back. There was a time in Haryana where OCs were…
People keep tagging me in posts about pollution from farm fires, but why does no one talk about the bigger picture? Most don’t even know that Nexus Elante Mall in Chandigarh, since its opening in 2013, was running on diesel generators burning 6,000 litres of diesel every single…
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