Home buyers are always looking for the best home they can buy with the resources and time available with them. Now, more than ever, real estate prices are subdued and buyers are again active in the market.
Buying a home is the most exciting and at the same time, tedious task for people. While the excitement of owning your own home pushes you harder to expedite the process, the tedious task of going through enormous amount of details frustrates you. Going through the process is a necessity. Though the process is tedious and demanding, any negligence on the due diligence can cost us big in the future.
In this article, we will take a look at some options that home buyers have and how they can choose the best one based on their requirement.
Buying an under-construction home
This is the most popular way of buying a home. A builder announces a new housing complex through newspapers, TV, or any other media. Agents start going around the market, companies, malls, and even homes of people to advertise the same. The goal of the builder is to sell as many as possible before the housing complex is built. In fact more than 75% of the flats of known builders are booked even before a brick is laid.
The advantage
Cheaper - Buying an under-construction home is cheaper compared to buying the one that is already built or about to be built. The cost difference is significant. In the Delhi and NCR region, a ready to move flat with 2 bedrooms that costs home buyers about 40-50 lakhs can be bought anywhere in the range of 30-40 lakhs while under-construction, depending on the location. On an average, the difference is anywhere between 20% and 40%. This is a big difference for majority of the home buyers.
Low EMI - The EMI is paid as the work progresses hence the initial EMIs are low in the case of an under construction home.
Win-win situation for buyers and sellers - Buying an under construction home is a win-win situation for both buyer and seller. The seller gets a ready set of customers even before he starts laying the foundation while buyers get the cost benefit.
High returns - Since the prices are lower, you may get higher returns on the under-construction home. This kind of return is not possible in a ready to move home. However, high returns come with high risks. To give an example, people who invested in Noida authority plots earned high returns while people who invested in Samshabaad in Hyderabad are still waiting for the area to pick up.
Caution Points
Risk is high - All is not so well in under construction home buying though. There have been cases where builders could not complete the housing complex and buyers lost the money. Real estate sector is full of such stories where the builders could not complete the property because of cash crunch, high interest rate, and high raw material costs.
On the other hand, the market outlook may also change like how it happened in Samshabaad in Hyderabad. Samshabaad was supposed to host the largest Infosys campus, a chip factory, few engineering & medical colleges, banks etc. but none of it happened due to the 2008 crisis.
Many times, you don't get what you are promised - This is another common complaint the home buyers have. They usually do not get what was promised in the documents. What is distressing is the carpet area that buyers get once the home is constructed. The carpet area is usually 70% of the super built area. The illusory swimming pool may never come up.
Important Points for buyers of under construction homes
Buyers should also check the past history of the builder. If the builder has done great in the past, chances are very high that he will repeat the same. However, if the past is checkered, rest assured history will repeat itself. Hence the track record of the builder is of paramount importance. Buyers should clarify loan tenure and how the money will be released to the builder. Typically it is completion based.
Buying a home is the most exciting and at the same time, tedious task for people. While the excitement of owning your own home pushes you harder to expedite the process, the tedious task of going through enormous amount of details frustrates you. Going through the process is a necessity. Though the process is tedious and demanding, any negligence on the due diligence can cost us big in the future.
In this article, we will take a look at some options that home buyers have and how they can choose the best one based on their requirement.
Buying an under-construction home
This is the most popular way of buying a home. A builder announces a new housing complex through newspapers, TV, or any other media. Agents start going around the market, companies, malls, and even homes of people to advertise the same. The goal of the builder is to sell as many as possible before the housing complex is built. In fact more than 75% of the flats of known builders are booked even before a brick is laid.
The advantage
Cheaper - Buying an under-construction home is cheaper compared to buying the one that is already built or about to be built. The cost difference is significant. In the Delhi and NCR region, a ready to move flat with 2 bedrooms that costs home buyers about 40-50 lakhs can be bought anywhere in the range of 30-40 lakhs while under-construction, depending on the location. On an average, the difference is anywhere between 20% and 40%. This is a big difference for majority of the home buyers.
Low EMI - The EMI is paid as the work progresses hence the initial EMIs are low in the case of an under construction home.
Win-win situation for buyers and sellers - Buying an under construction home is a win-win situation for both buyer and seller. The seller gets a ready set of customers even before he starts laying the foundation while buyers get the cost benefit.
High returns - Since the prices are lower, you may get higher returns on the under-construction home. This kind of return is not possible in a ready to move home. However, high returns come with high risks. To give an example, people who invested in Noida authority plots earned high returns while people who invested in Samshabaad in Hyderabad are still waiting for the area to pick up.
Caution Points
Risk is high - All is not so well in under construction home buying though. There have been cases where builders could not complete the housing complex and buyers lost the money. Real estate sector is full of such stories where the builders could not complete the property because of cash crunch, high interest rate, and high raw material costs.
On the other hand, the market outlook may also change like how it happened in Samshabaad in Hyderabad. Samshabaad was supposed to host the largest Infosys campus, a chip factory, few engineering & medical colleges, banks etc. but none of it happened due to the 2008 crisis.
Many times, you don't get what you are promised - This is another common complaint the home buyers have. They usually do not get what was promised in the documents. What is distressing is the carpet area that buyers get once the home is constructed. The carpet area is usually 70% of the super built area. The illusory swimming pool may never come up.
Important Points for buyers of under construction homes
Buyers should also check the past history of the builder. If the builder has done great in the past, chances are very high that he will repeat the same. However, if the past is checkered, rest assured history will repeat itself. Hence the track record of the builder is of paramount importance. Buyers should clarify loan tenure and how the money will be released to the builder. Typically it is completion based.
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