Journal

What We Know, Written Down

Nearly thirty years of buying land and building on it, turned into the answers we find ourselves giving over and over.

Buying a home in Chhattisgarh, step by step

Most people buy a house once or twice in their lives, and nobody teaches you how. Here is the whole sequence, from the first site visit to the day the registry is in your name.

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What to check before you buy a plot

Land looks like the simplest thing to buy and is often the hardest. Nine questions that separate a plot you can build on from one you will spend years regretting.

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Why Raipur keeps outgrowing its own map

A capital that was a district town in living memory now anchors one of the fastest growing property markets in central India. What is driving it, and what that means for buyers.

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How we build: what is behind the wall

Nobody buys a house for its fly ash brick or its concealed copper wiring. But those are the decisions that determine what the house is like to live in ten years from now.

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