What is the real cost of your new flat or villa?

Most property developers as you might know quote the price per sqft. So your 1200 sqft flat costs Rs.1200 X sqft? What you need to know is that a plethora of other charges that comes along with it. Unfortunately there seems to be as many different ways of pricing as the number of builders. While the base rate might be the square feet rate multiplied by the area, the actual cost of owning a property might differ a lot. (In most cases higher than a new buyer might expect) For example there are some builders who include the parking charges along with the sqft rate while there are others who charge up to 2.5 Lacs for a dedicated parking space.

Statutory charges are what you need to pay apart from the construction cost. Some builders give a bundled price which may include some of these charges. Statutory charges include Service tax, VAT etc. All of these charges may not be completely known to the buyer beforehand.

Some thing like round the clock security looks attractive, but actually it has nothing to do with neither the construction nor the project as a whole, as it is the residents association that needs to provide and maintain the security personnel.

Apart from all these, there are the registration and stamp duty charges when you want to make that property your own legally.

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Kerala Real estate listings, flats & apartments

Real estate market in Kerala, to a great extend depends on NRI investments, a unique situation where majority of the investors are actually living outside the country. Real estate websites often provides the first level of information about the various upcoming and ongoing projects in Kerala.
KeralaListings property marketing introduces contact centre for Kerala Real Estate for property buyers in Kerala. Customers can get property information for free through KeralaListings contact centre. Property listings are given with complete information. However confidential listings can also be given where the traceable property and seller data is protected. Some of the features are

1) Search for Kerala villas, flats & apartments. Find apartments in Cochin & elsewhere in Kerala.
Trivandrum Apartments - Search for apartments in the capital city.

Thrissur Apartments - Apartments in the cultural capital of Kerala

Calicut Apartments - Flats & apartments at calicut.
All projects given with floor plan, location map etc.

Reseller units can be listed in the site. This allows users to see apartment units of sold out projects which are listed for resale.


2) Search for land in Kerala. Listings are given with details like frontage, location name, Pin code, Corporation/Municipality/Panchayat where it belongs etc.

3)villas in Kerala. Details like land area, constructed area, no of beds & baths, year of construction, year of major modification (if applicable)

4) Kerala estates Kerala commercial property listings.


5) Multi parameter search – Narrow down your search to a municipality or even village. Select corporation, municipality or even village for location. Search using pincode to get property listings of a particular area.

6) Compare properties online - The selected properties from the search results or bookmarked page can be compared in a tabular format. KeralaListings uniform data structure makes this possible.

7) Confidential Listings - A property can be listed confidentially. i.e, the traceable information is hidden from the public. This is especially suitable for commercial property listings and existing business listings. Many residential property listings are also under confidential listings. The seller is contacted through email or email queries are informed to the seller through phone from KeralaListings.

8) Option to give seller, property and contact address separately - Useful when you are away from the property you wish to sell.

9) Bookmark listings for future reference. Simple Registration, typically takes less than a minute.