Life after retirement

It is well read in the poems by Paul Callus, Raymond Ngomane, Jerry T Curis, Tom Hitt and many others. Retirement seems to the end of life where sipping tea on an old rocking chair, reading newspaper or playing old recorder to enjoy some best hits of those years. But, it is not so. Retirement is fun, as then you get time for things around your home, garden, spending quality time with grandchildren, catching up with school friends or making up for re-union, joining hobbies’ classes and many more. During your service time, you might be away from home due to your transferable job or meeting or posting. But now you have ample time to spend time with your loved ones and tell them that now you have all the time for them. After retirement many plans to shift their place to their home town so that they could be away from hustle and bustle of the town. 

Frankly speaking, in India there are many places to get nested after retirement. It is your personal and your family’s discretion that whether you stay in your current city or move your base. Subhashish Dev an ex-pilot at private airline said, “I have lived in Jamshedpur in my early life but due to my posting I kept on moving between Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. Now, as I got retired last year my son calls to settle-down in Chandigarh as he has job there and a house to support him.”  

                                                                         

                                                                                                    

Here you can a good look to where to settle down after retirement:

Kochi: Blessed with tropical climate and lush green environment, Kochi is also known for Queen of the Arabian Sea title. It is very much affordable place as real estate properties here are economic friendly. Like goa, it horns amenities like good connectivity by road, rail and air. 

Lucknow: A nawabi city on the banks of Gomti River sets a unique set of amber against the backdrop of Flat in Lucknow. Nowadays, flats are mainly on high rise with properties around the city would provide a touching living style with complete harmony and peace.

Pune: A soothing 3 hours’ drive from Mumbai will not burden you harder if you choose Pune for your home after retirement. The cost of living is much lesser than its honey combed neighbor Mumbai. 

There are other cities on the Indian map which too support pocket friendly housing after retirement which includes Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Puducherry, Mysore, Indore and many others. Make sure that whichever city you choose you should research properly in both in and out ways. So, which one is your pick?

Now, track price trend and micro-markets of Lucknow when buying ‘Home Sweet Home’

Many things happen to revolve at the same time someone buys a house or land. Many people investigate with the name and the working of the real estate company with which they are getting involved. On the other side of the coin, many searched for places which are nearer to their families or relative’s place and some find some isolation and privacy.  If you are looking for posh and developing place in the city, there are few to name. Panning from Sushant Golf City to Faizabad Road or Ring Road, these are the micro-markets in the Lucknow. The going rate of these segments which deal with Sushant Golf City stands at INR 4000 per square as an average circle rate of that area. If you proceed towards Ring Road, then that place has an average circle rate as Rs 4400 per square which is round about going as Sushant Golf City. And, now talking about Indira Nagar and its adjoining area like Mahanagar proudly stands with supreme rate as Rs 4500 per square feet on average. 

Nevertheless, it is also important to tap on the areas which are nearer to the track which will be laden by Lucknow Metro Corporation. Property of such areas which can be Indira Nagar, Munshi Pulia, Krishna Nagar, and Hazratganj will be benefited with metro passage. Another project of importance where it said Residential Property in Lucknow can also be counted along with Lucknow Agra Expressway which bond which two historically rich cities into a thread. 

Now we come to purchasing of flats in the city, which is said to be rising nowadays in the terms of its rate and locality. Like Mrs. Sudipta Mukherjee a housewife who choose to buy flat after shifting her base from Sunderbagh which is centrally located in the city said, “As now my husband and I are getting old and our children after getting schooling from here got opportunity to settle outside. There is no one to maintain such haveli type house which too need strong and heavy costing for painting and plastering. So, we decided to shift to flat and rest for some time now! 

Still your minimum budget will be Rs 30, 00,000 for 1000sqft keeping in mind the cash crunch rates levied on things. In this budget, you can get Wealth Emporio’s 1BHK which is situated at Shaheed Path. It will be worthy to inform you that it is commercial cum residential apartment. You can also get plot in Rs 13, 50,000 of Akansha Enclave at Kursi Road for 1000sqft. If you look into other places in cities, places like Dewa Road, Faizabad Road, Mohanlalganj and Raebareli Road will also be found is the same range.

Plant some green inside your home and simply ‘Go Green’

In recent times, going green and eco-friendly has become buzzwords which are easily been seen on products for commercial or organic products. Going deep in the topic, in-house gardens are being diverse in its range providing a choosing option for the ones who have none. As people are going towards and looking up to feng shui and vaastu culture more, planting sapling and bonsai have gone up by 90% according to the reports in Housing.com. 

In some developed cities in our country like Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad where all through the wide road you will get to see flowering plants which will not only lower the temperature by its shade but also add a pleasant look of the boulevard. People who live in those cities know better about it. Nevertheless, if you are staying in Lucknow and go towards Narhahi and botanical garden you will feel the freshness in the environment. Dr Abhimanyun Gupta, researcher at Botanical garden says, ‘Residential property in Lucknow has also started to prefer home-friendly plants so that Lucknowites can feel relief when they come back to their home tiered and stressed. As compared to previous liking, there has been change. Nowadays, bonsai and vegetable plants for chilies, tomatoes or beans are also been potted as most of the families have shifted to flats where area for plantation is less. The need to plant and nurture native varieties of plants has become important and that we should understand.’ 

Some of the important trends which can be carried in the city houses can be rain water harvesting, growing veggies organically, indoor gardens, using natives and easy maintenance.  Now, going deep in the topic, many houses prefers to quench their thirst by building rain water harvesting system so that it could be used in the most dried seasons. Other than that, edible plants like okra, egg-plant, chilies, and tomatoes can look good and at the same time provide with organic and fresh veggies in your kitchen. You can even go forth indoor plants with exotic terrarium or bonsai rubber plants which can pretty well add a chick look in your home. Growing herbs like lucky bamboo, basil, parsley, money plant and many others can look good and add an ethnic style of living of today’s busy schedule. 

Well, indoor gardening is important as it is easy to maintain as compared to lawns or gardens where plants, crippers, trees adds to the environment. So, what do you want to choose for your indoor beautification?

A metro-link to connect to your home

It is well said that all’s well that ends well, at this case it fits best. A well-known town on the banks of river Gomti a distributary of Ganga, which was formerly known as Lakshmanpuri since last year has seen a change in its regular style. Well with all dust, gravel, iron rods, gadder and much more has made compliance for a technological travel medium call metro has tracked down in the city. With the help of the previous political reign, metro and its constructions has given an edge on today’s transport system and has likely encouraged the thought of developed metro city.  With the advent of metro, buying homes has also increased and mostly places are sort out more which falls on the metro map for better convenience. 

Nowadays, people prefer places or residential areas which fall or are near to metro junction. It has been long awaited scene when people looked forth for easy life with metro as transport by bus, auto, and tempo gets on to nerves when these gets indulge in laxity. If someone finds Property in Lucknow, then he or she should come to Wealth Mantra, real estate because this company channelizes its properties in every part of the city. This company has properties at Faizabad Road, near The Times of India, Kursi Road, Deva Gaddia Road, Near Sushant Golf City and Shaheed Path. And yes, all these properties stand gigantically in Lucknow.

Well, if we talk about the much said metro map, it runs and crisscrosses each other at east-west and north-south corridor. And as learnt from news and media, ‘Metro Man’ E Shreedharan has directed its LMRC team to certify March 26 for commercial operations for Lucknow Metro. He further stated that, “A full stretch of 23.5km running from Amusi to Munshi Pulia would get completed before December 2018 so that the second phase of world would commence from January 2019.” 

Looking deeply into the map, the places which fall under the proposed places are about to get started in first (under which some of its places has been worked i.e. from Amusi Airport to Charbagh) and second phase or an extension can be added but it is confirmed that in time to come, whole of Lucknow would get webbed in a metro map and travelling from one end to another will not possess a problem or a thought.

So, come and book your dream home because long routes take time but those are ways which are never questioned upon their value and credibility.

What is all in the union budget kitty for your housing?

As and when Union budget make rounds in social media, everybody gets cold blood and an effect like vampires prevails. According to recent news, union budget for 2017-18 gives an impulse to infrastructure and affordable housing sector here in India.  This has really made the blow effective with affordability for all type of housing for the native of this country to reside. 

Remember, if you want to proceed in this sector you have to be vigilant with the infrastructure status by the affordable housing. Related to this, it too has benefits which stands qualified for an affordable housing making. Apart from magnating better investment, it too develops two-tier and three tier cities which tries to gallop in this competitive world. As an advantage, builders now net sectors which are positioned with flexible long term funding. So, in overall this year’s budget is fruitful for all the infrastructure dealing companies.

According to LTCG or Long Term Capital Gains Tax gestation for land and immovable assets has been increased to two years. If talking about real estate companies on Lucknow, it would be a boon for them and they would likely to give possession on time and without any delay. If you Buy Flat in Lucknow which like mushrooming in the city nowadays would be given a green signal and thus the authority would also grant residential land permit when seek by the builders.  Coming back to the topic, this might help the numbers of sales in the residential sector and on the other hand it would allocate the financial gains when the investment would be under scanner. 

Now apart from residential sectors, State and National highways has also moved beyond. If Rs 369,134 crores has sanctioned for infrastructure, then Rs 60,000 crores has got sanctioned for highway and road ways. This will not only give a boost to residential localities on the fringes of the city but also it would improve the connectivity with other places.  At least, about 5% of the exemption can be enjoyed by many small builders who were earlier got trapped down by the effects of demonetization.

It would be best to see if the advantages of union budget can tranquil the situation for the nation and the city builders to build more housing for people in coming future.