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Quote Mr. V Replybullet Posted: 20/Jun/2007 at 6:28am
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I parted away with 4 lakhs in 2002 for 2 grounds in outskirts of Chennai. Now grounds in that area are selling for 12 lakh each....

 

Sensex has given an average of 20% CAGR since its inception. What is the average real estate returns in the past 20 years? Over a long term, does real estate beat equity?

 

Like the way we do for the stocks (good management, high ROE, ROCE, EPS and so on), apply the same principle here also.

 

While I can read up on the internet for equity investments, I have nowhere to go for real estate investments. Chinki - if possible, start a new thread on how to identify land/aparment in a city for investment.


Real estate investments make sense only when its leveraged. Pay 15% upfront and take out a loan on the remaining 85%. Make sure that you have a steady income to pay the EMIs for the next 2-3 years and then flip.

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Quote xbox Replybullet Posted: 20/Jun/2007 at 6:51am
Real estate investments make sense only when its leveraged.
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Non-leverage is way to go..be it anything. CASHFLOW Quadrant book from Robert Kiyosaki (rich dad poor dad fame) explained it carefully.
Leverage if last thing to do that to in urgency. Interest paid on EMI seriously erode one's return.
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Quote smartcat Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 12:10pm
My turn to reveal my latest portfolio holdings. The last 2 weeks were interesting to say the least.
 
Company Net Asset(%)
 Reliance Communications 16.27
 Aban Offshore 16.23
 Reliance Industries 15.92
 DLF Ltd. 12.83
 Reliance Capital 9.15
 Tata Consultancy Services 8.47
 Kotak Mahindra Bank 7.07
 Television Eighteen India 5.84
 Lakshmi Machine Works 3.46
 Punj Lloyd 2.19
 Mahindra & Mahindra 1.58
 
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- Some time back, I replaced INFY with TCS. I have a feeling TCS will outperform INFY but only slightly. But because of software stock crash and because of rise in Reliance stocks, its percentage has come down from 16% to 9% now.
 
- DLF is my real estate investment. I don't own an apartment or a site in Bangalore. But I go around telling everybody that I have a properties spread all over India, but mostly in NCR region.
 
- Replaced UTI bank with Kotak Bank because Kotak is more 'complete' bank. I did consider Yes Bank too, but it is too small for me and does not have enough retail exposure yet.
 
- Booked partial profit in RCOM since its weightage climbed over 25% and added to other stocks.
 
- Punj Lloyd will go to 5 - 8% of my overall portfolio eventually.
 
- M&M's valuation doesn't make any sense. If I put a holding company discount of 20% for the listed entities M&M owns, its automotive business is trading at a trailing P/E of 6.  M&M is my NW18.
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Quote xbox Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 12:21pm
A good large-cap biased portbolio. Thumbs%20Up
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Quote basant Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 12:52pm
 M&M is my NW18.
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And NW18 is my M&M. Welcome to the partyOuch
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Quote smartcat Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 1:03pm
This party is a bummer Dead
 
My NW18's (ie, M&M) fortunes are linked to Tech Mahindra. Your M&M's (ie, NW18) fortunes are linked to the market waking up from its slumber and removing/reducing the discount given to holding companies.
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Quote kulman Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 9:29pm
Smartcat...after your excellent 'hedging stategy' on crude oil, this is yet another sixer: "I don't own an apartment or a site in Bangalore. But I go around telling everybody that I have a properties spread all over India, but mostly in NCR region"
 
On a side note, our tigershark's trek to Kargil has this effect on sensex. There is a rumour doing rounds that he has Mt Everest in mind for the next year!
 
 
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Quote smartcat Replybullet Posted: 28/Sep/2007 at 12:20pm
hehe.. If that theory is correct, I don't want tigershark to get back to New Delhi (We don't want a market correction now, do we?). We need to put him on a Ladakh to Nepal flight right away!
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