Web portals dealing in properties say Rajarhat among the most searched addresses in the region

RAJARHAT: As online house hunting picks up among Kolkatans, web portals that deal in buying, selling and renting of properties online say that Rajarhat and nearby areas are among the most searched addresses in the region.

"We get around 10-15 percent of our overall traffic from Kolkata. Some of the most searched properties are in the New Town and Rajarhat area," says Bhaskar Bagchi, COO, Indiahomes. The property portal also has more than 70 percent of their expert advised projects located at Rajarhat. Availability of umpteen finished and unfinished projects in the area is what makes Rajarhat the most searched area by users.

"We also see a lot of affinity towards reputed developers on our web portal from the site visitors coming from this region," Bagchi says. These portals bring in many innovations in order to give a better idea of the property they are choosing to buy which more or less effects the buyer's decision to make a deal.

IndiaHomes, apart from providing detailed information like site plan and location match up on its portal also has as a tool called 'walk score'. "The Walk Score represents distances from basic amenities, so if the 'walk score' of a property is higher, it is more preferable", says Bagchi.

Most of the buyers who seek help from such websites are between the age of 25 and 35, according to Ashis Mondal, major account manager at maakan.com, a Kolkata-based web portal which provides real estate solutions. "Online traffic of real estate buying has increased by 80 percent in the last few years. The site is just like a virtual mall. All the visitors may not be buyers but 20 percent of the total visits culminate into deals." says Mondal.

According to maakan.com, the online buyers are mostly working professionals, young couples and those who have shifted to the city recently. Since most of the shifting population in the city works at Salt Lake, it makes the New Town and Rajarhat area a sought after location online. The site's 40 percent of dealings are done for properties at Rajarhat.

Talking about how a property web portal generates revenue, Mondal explained that the revenue is generated from the seller (broker or developer), individuals who put up advertisements on the site to sell or rent their property and the ancillary businessmen like interior decorators, plumbers, electricians and others.

Speaking on the trend of buying property online, Bagchi of Indiahomes says, "Online purchase of real-estate will take some time as it is a very high-involvement purchase for consumers but online assisted sales are a popular option," he says. "Having said that, a lot of web assisted research has been noticed recently that comprises of more than 24-25 million searches, exclusively for real-estate queries," he adds.

While revenues earned from the sellers can range from Rs 50,000 and go up to any limit, the revenue from brokers and individual advertisers can range from start at Rs 5000 and Rs 900 respectively. According to revenues earned the sites classify developers in categories of A, A+, B+ and C+.

Another website, bestpropertydeals.co.in that started in 2009, would be entering the Kolkata market soon. "Our future plans involve offering our services to all Metro cities in India. Of course Kolkata is on the cards as it is one of the emerging markets for real estate dealings," said Raj Sharma, MD, Best Property Deals.

The website's clientele comprises primarily of people who are NRI, HNI and high income groups. The website has had customers from Europe, US and UAE as well.

Talking about profits Sharma said, "We have an agreement with a selected builder/developer, wherein there is a commitment of getting the builder a certain number of deals through our website, for which our company charges them 0.1 to 0.3 percent of the BSP(Basic sale price)."

The cost of making such websites starts from about Rs 5 lakhs and can even go up to crores.

HOW IT WORKS

"Online broking services work with a very high dependence on technology platforms including websites, call centres, back-end processes, real-time information updates. It is a very tight integration of human engagement with technology enablers," said Bagchi.

The difference between online realty broking and traditional ways, according to the experts, is the ease of information availability for the consumers.

The direct benifit of online deals, Sharma says, is that it saves the buyers time and money as they only need to log in to the website without any brokers and negotiation. "Depending on the type of response that we get for the listed project we negotiate for a better discount for the end users," said Sharma.

Apart from the no brokerage factor a few other services offered by such website are free document pickup and updating customers till the agreement finalises. Most builders predict a bright future for online property deals and thus, have their own websites for the purpose.

According to some, the cost factor too, had an important role to play. "A website does not only benefit the buyers, it also reduces the marketing cost down by 70 percent for the developers," said Raj Sharma from Best Property Deals "Compared to putting an advertisement in the newspaper or putting up a hoarding, reaching prospective people online is a lot cheaper. Mostly serious buyers would surf the net and go through websites for buying property. The search is, therefore, narrowed down to specific buyers. Viewing drawings, sending proposals and getting an artistic vision are done comfortably online than through other medium," said Kumar Shankar Bagchi, MD, Bengal Peerless.

Miss Universe 2012 Winner: Miss USA Olivia Culpo

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd" brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.

Olivia Culpo beat out 88 other beauty queens from six continents at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip to take the title from outgoing champion Leila Lopes of Angola.
Culpo wore a tight navy blue mini-dress with a sequined bodice as she walked on stage for the competition's opening number. Later in the night, she strutted in a purple and blue bikini, and donned a wintery red velvet gown with a plunging neckline.
Culpo's coronation ends a long losing spell for the U.S. in the competition co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC. An American had not won the Miss Universe title since Brook Lee won in 1997.
No one seemed more surprised than Culpo's family, who "looked at her like she had three heads" when told them she was entering the Miss Rhode Island contest last year, her father Peter recalled.
"We didn't know a thing about pageants," he said.
She won that contest in a rented $20 dress with a hole in it and then began working out, dieting, and studying current events on flashcards to compete for the Miss USA crown.
Culpo was good enough during preliminary Miss Universe contests to be chosen as one of 16 semifinalists who moved on to compete in the main show. Her bid lasted through swimsuit, evening wear, and interview competitions that saw cuts after each round.
She won over the judges even after tripping slightly during the evening gown competition. Telecasters pointed it out but also noted her poised recovery.
Moments before she won, Culpo was asked whether she had she had ever done something she regretted.
"I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life," she said. "But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older."
One of those siblings, 17-year-old Gus, was cheering from the front row with his sister's glittering Miss Rhode Island sash wrapped around his shoulders
Miss Philippines, Janine Tugonon, came in second, while Miss Venezuela, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, placed third. All the contestants spent the past two weeks in Sin City, where they posed in hardhats at a hotel groundbreaking, took a painting lesson, and pranked hotel guests by hiding in their rooms.
After the show, Culpo appeared wearing a white gold crown atop her long brown hair and told a group of reporters she hoped to bring the country some good news in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Connecticut.
"It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened in this country lately," she said. "I really hope that this this will raise everybody's spirits a little."
The daughter of two professional musicians, Culpo grew up in Cranston and spent her summers at band camp. She has played the cello alongside world-renowned classical musician Yo-Yo Ma, and followed in her parents' footsteps with performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Her father called her the "nerdiest" of her siblings, and her brother recalled that she was "really chubby and sort of weird when she was younger."
They speculated that the same single-mindedness that helped her master the cello in second grade propelled her rapid rise through the beauty pageant ranks.
With her promotion, Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether becomes the new Miss USA.
The Miss Universe pageant was back in Las Vegas this year after being held in Sao Paulo in 2011. It aired live on NBC and was streamed to more than 100 countries.
The panel of 10 judges included singer Cee Lo Green, "Iron Chef" star Masaharu Morimoto and Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants.
Asked on the red carpet whether he found playing in the World Series or judging the beauty pageant to be more difficult, Sandoval said both were hard.
As Miss Universe, Culpo will receive an undisclosed salary, a wardrobe fit for a queen, a limitless supply of beauty products, and a luxury apartment in New York City.

In Gujarat elections Narendra Modi appears set for hat-trick

The ruling BJP appeared set to perform a hat-trick in Gujarat while trends reversed in favour of Congress in Himachal Pradesh where it could wrest
power from the saffron party. Trends from the counting of votes that began this morning projected chief minister Narendra Modi capturing 

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power for the third consecutive time worsting Congress.
Latest TV projection show BJP leading in as many as 111 seats while the Congress was leading in 67.

In the 182-member Assembly, the BJP had won 117 in the last elections in 2007 while Congress got 59. Fortunes changed for Congress in Himachal Pradesh, where it was projected as trailing the ruling BJP. At 10 am, the Congress was leading in 28 seats while the BJP was ahead in 20 in the 68-memmber Assembly. 'Others' led in four.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi was leading in Maninagar. Both the Pradesh Congress Committee chief and the its legislature party leader Arjun Modhwadia and Shaktisinh Gohil were trailing.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the victory in Gujarat polls "makes Narenda Modi unstoppable in the BJP. He is very  important chief minister for BJP but that has nothing to do with his national acceptability".

The Congress, which had been hoping to unseat chief minister Narendra Modi, was ahead in 67 of the total 182 seats.

The Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) of former BJP chief minister Keshubhai Patel appeared to be on the winning track in three places.

"There is every indication that the BJP is coming back to power in Gujarat," asserted party spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman.

No result had been declared yet, the officials said.

Before the vote count started across the state at 8 am, Modi confidant Amit Shah asserted that the BJP was sure to bag a two-thirds majority in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

The GPP said the Congress should have allied with it.

GPP leader Gordhan Zadaphia said a GPP-Congress alliance could have ousted Modi, who has ruled Gujarat since 2001 and who tweeted Thursday in the run up to the vote count: "No need to look behind."

Gujarat Congress leader Ameeben Yagnik admitted: "We will have to work harder in Gujarat."

The BJP won 117 seats in 2007. Exit polls have predicted a massive win for the BJP in Gujarat.

Political pundits have said that a widely predicted Modi win -- the third time he would be taking the BJP to victory in Gujarat -- could have him playing a larger role in national politics.

DELHI GANGRAPE

The bus driver ram singh went out with
his 6 friends ( 2 rkp sabzee wale + all bihari ) 
the girl and the guy was
called by the driver and were given proper tickets
( the bus was a school bus
with black curtains .. Not permitted for
transport use )

the girl was 23 a very
good student and wanted to reach dwarka mor.
After they got in , the
guys hit a rod on
the guys's head and threw him out ,
then raped the girl one by one which was moving continuously in the
posh areas of delhi and ncr.

After raping her badly , one of them inserted a very long rod in her vagina which almost killed her and threw
her out and ran away.
She was lying in
the middle of the rod
hurt and nude..
Not even single
person helped her or covered her for an
hour.
When police came in no one
helped them pick her up. They were just
not interested at all.
The girl's vagina + small and large intestine is totally damaged and
she
cannot live a married or normal
life.


Doctor said " main bayan nahi kar
sakta
ki ussne kya kya zheela hai ...
Bolte hue
muzhe dard hota hai ".
She has gone in
coma 5 times from 16th dec. She is unconscious , critical and is not stop
crying. The ribs are damaged as well.

That's the whole story
And that's what delhi people are. And her only fault was that she
took a wrong bus..


You have sisters ,
mothers , daughters
and soo many females at home.
Please don't sit and relax
Its not that small deal ... Its bout
your
families safety..

Like and share if u want the rapist to be hanged..

Government plans ambitious housing scheme for urban poor

NEW DELHI: The government plans to launch an ambitious housing scheme to woo the urban poor, ahead of the next general elections.

The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry has tapped several central ministries and agencies to prepare a comprehensive package, which will include building high-rise apartments for the urban poor on land owned by central agencies such as the railways and defence; doing away with the cap of Rs 80,000 on home loans under the JNNURM scheme; incentivising construction of homes for the poor; and making it mandatory for builders to reserve 35% of houses in any housing complex for economically weaker sections and lower income groups under the Rajiv Awas Yojana.

“Consultations with various arms of the government are on. This will be another game-changer as millions of poor will benefit,” said Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken. This move comes in the run-up to the next general elections. Congress had done very well in the urban areas in the 2009 elections, but the government’s image has been severely hit by corruption scandals and the perception that it has not done enough in the last few years. A string of defeats suffered by the party in the civic polls of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and other cities post-2009 has worried its leadership, which is looking at ways to reclaim the urban vote.

The party had launched the ‘Ghar Nu Ghar’ affordable housing scheme for women ahead of the Gujarat elections that saw nearly 28 lakh women sign up. “The queues in Gujarat showed us the appetite for affordable homes. Steep real estate prices and expensive loans have discouraged people from buying homes – by far the biggest investment in their lifetime,” said a housing ministry official. Congress has decided to make the direct cash transfer scheme – a programme that gives the poor access to welfare scheme funds directly, using the electronically-enabled Aadhaar card – a major plank of its election strategy. The Food Security Bill and the Land Rehabilitation Bill are also expected to form a part of its election strategy.

While housing for the urban poor is a vote-catching proposition, it is a state subject and the 12-18 months left before the next elections is too short a period for construction to happen. “We can’t start constructing houses before polls, but we can launch the schemes,” said Maken. The minister said the proposed package wasn’t just a political move, and added that it was imperative for the government to provide housing for the urban poor. “We are talking about almost 50% of our population, of which 26% live in slums flats in noida extension. I think we need to give them some good programmes and policies, which we are working through our re-christened Rajiv Awas Yojana. We are making a number of changes so that this scheme becomes more effective and meaningful.”

The government has calculated that there is a shortfall of 18.78 million homes in the country, mostly in the low-income category. The poor in India usually live in unregulated areas, especially slum developments in big cities such as Delhi and Mumbai. Delhi alone has more than 50,000 slums units on railway land and between 5,000 and 10,000 on defence properties.

Maken’s ministry has had discussions with the railways and defence ministries. “We are looking at how, through Rajiv Awas Yojana, we can straightaway start with slum eradication or improvement of slums or housing in the central government agency areas,” Maken said. In addition, the railways and defence establishments have huge tracts of surplus, unutilised land all over the country, especially in habitable regions, and the idea is to develop homes and colonies on them. The minister said the government had failed to achieve certain goals in the first phase of JNNURM. But the gaps will be plugged this time around to make it more relevant. “We would like to be more realistic and in terms of actuals, we would like to give 50% or 80% of the amount which would be spent,” Maken said, adding he was expecting the Planning Commission to agree to this proposal.....

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Important Points To Remember About Residential Flats in Noida

With the investments in IT and ITES pour in the development of Noida, has been significant growth of the population in the city. Consequently, with the quick development of commercial real estate market, Noida residential property has also risen swiftly. The increasing demand has created a desirable price appreciation, making the city of Noida Residential preferred motifs for property venture. The camber of enlargement in housing investment in Noida is perchance the steepest. In fact, in latest years the demand for housing in Noida has augmented to the extent that developers of Delhi NCR region are rather has to focus its expertise in developing luxury living spaces all over town.

There has been evidence and various investments in real estate property in Noida and luxury apartments Noida. As a result, a stable appreciation of home prices up to 30% is observed each year. This also ensures a great potential for investors, since they have the opportunity to make big profits. So let's find out some important facts of residential property in Noida Properties for Sale.

• Noida residential properties are usually in the form of plots, autonomous houses, luxury villas, apartments, lofts and flats and group housing.
• The housing communities are mostly focused in the sector 14, 15, 27, 28, 29, 37 and 44.
• Noida is the operational base of world-famous real estate agents like as Unitech, Eldeco, OMAX, Assotech and Gaur.

Development of Noida Residential Property:

Surrounding the plateau, the evolution of the real estate sector in India has been phenomenal, fueled by economic growth, favorable demographics and liberalized FDI regime however now this constant occurrence of real estate has begun to show signs of reduction.

A lot of institutional investment chances, residential, information and biological technology have become available in this city. It is a place that can boast pompously of their streets and smooth, clean, fresh air, good drainage and underground electrical wiring, privatized, less congestion and the law and sound. In addition, the gap between Delhi and Noida can be more effortlessly in a half bridge hours.

The term consist of residential real estate, homes, commercial offices and retail spaces such as theaters, hotels and restaurants, shops, industrial buildings like as factories and government buildings. Sale of residential property absorbs the Noida recruitment and development of land, residential and nonresidential and noida extension properties.

• As previously talked about, the main reason for developing the housing market is the growth of business and industry in the city. Each year thousands of IT professionals are reduced to the city for work. Therefore, the demand for housing has led to the development of corporate structures and modern lifestyle.

• Because to the augment in the price of residential property in Noida, many find it a profitable option to invest and generate profits in return. In fact, the trend of real estate investing has launched the people of Delhi and NCR region to buy houses in Noida.

• Noida to be near the provincial capital and a satellite project, the city has become the hot spot for NRI. The foreign direct investment in the coming years is speculation at 30,000 crore. Non-resident Indians favor to buy luxury residential property as his second home in areas like Noida NCR.

Most residential projects Noida property or housing units are placed or can be found in Noida sector 14, 15, 27, 28, 29 and 37. Most residential properties are housing units, while those located in sector 44 are group housing. The variety ranges from Noida residential property to flats in Noida Expressway consist of apartments, houses, luxury detached bungalows, condominiums, villas in attics. In order to stand out over others, each involving real estate developers to get the best experience for pioneering projects and projects of villas in the area of Noida also.

Best Residential Apartments For Sale In Delhi NCR

Today Delhi-NCR is in huge demand for the range of flats available for buyers and investors. Delhi has always been on the forefront of realty development because of people continuing to flock from all parts of the country to the capital city in search of employment opportunities, education and healthcare. Flats for sale in New Delhi include flats of different sizes and price points from 2BHK to 4 BHK throughout the capital city.

These are highly valued because of good connectivity through state run buses & Delhi Metro, modern amenities, infrastructure facilities and security in comparison to other parts of India. If the enthusiastic buyers are unable to find their choicest flats in Delhi then Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad and Faridabad have opened their doors for them. Also they promise the safest investment because of high yields and enormous profits in the future.

Reputed builders are now offering luxurious, medium sized and affordable flats for sale and also ensure that they accommodate facilities to compete with the best builders. Migrant population is always on the increase, which in turn boosts the real estate value and development. The surge in rental value is also one of its outcomes. Some of the new colonies in Delhi have provided an excellent solution to home seekers.

Apart from Dwarka, there are other colonies on the outskirts of Delhi with flats for sale that will help you realize your dream home. The south-west part of Delhi is one of the largest residential colonies in the world in terms of area  is a colony of Dwarka. In these area  new residential colonies and new schools ,hospitals institutes and universities and Markets  will come up Shortly.

So, if you have a dream flat (affordable to luxurious) in mind, then come to Delhi-NCR and we will find you the best property deals on any property.Visit http://www.bestpropertydeals.co.in. to find at least 400+ Real Estate Consultants competing to provide you with BEST DEAL for your selected Project.