Last month, the Telangana government announced the merger of 27 urban local bodies with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), expanding the city’s boundaries from 650 sqkm to 2,000 sqkm. In one stroke, it ensured that Hyderabad became the country’s largest city in terms of municipal area, larger than Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Pune […]
A home bought years ago may now be worth crores, but most buyers rarely calculate the true lifetime cost. stamp duty, maintenance, repairs, property tax, interest outgo, or compare it with the returns their money could have earned elsewhere. Homebuyers suffer from a common ‘optical illusion’ in real estate: looking only at the sale price […]
