The Real Estate & Home Buying category helps Indian readers understand the financial side of buying, renting, or planning a home. This section can cover rent vs buy decisions, home loan planning, down payment, stamp duty, registration charges, property tax, maintenance cost, home insurance, builder payment plans, resale property checks, home loan eligibility, EMI burden, and total cost of ownership.
Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions for Indian families, but many people compare only rent and EMI while ignoring hidden costs such as registration, furnishing, maintenance, society charges, brokerage, loan interest, legal verification, and opportunity cost. Ridhi’s real estate guides aim to make home-buying decisions more practical by showing realistic ₹ examples, affordability checks, and decision frameworks. This category is useful for salaried employees, married couples, families, first-time buyers, and people deciding whether to rent longer or buy now. Since property rules, stamp duty, registration charges, home loan rates, and local regulations differ by state and city, readers should verify current details from official state, lender, and legal sources before making decisions.
You own a flat and someone pays you rent every month. That rent feels like extra income — and it is. But the Income Tax Department sees it differently. Rental income sits in its own tax bucket called “Income from House Property,” and it comes with its own set of deductions, rules, and ITR schedules […]
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Selling a property in India can mean receiving ₹60 lakh on one day — and receiving a tax notice six months later. Capital gains tax on property sale applies to the profit you make when you transfer a house, flat, plot, or building, and the tax impact depends on one decision above all others: whether
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