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Nagpur, famous for its oranges, has successfully emerged as the hub of real estate. The success can be attributed to the over all commercial and residential development of the city. Nagpur, only a milestone behind Mumbai, has attracted and established medium to heavy industry, IT , ITeS and BPO sector to the city. The city has a load of advantages in its favour. Nagpur is one of the most central cities, with abundance of affordable land and labour, which works out in favour of most companies to set up a unit in the city.
In the past 5 years, IT, ITeS and the BPO sector have made inroads in to the city with companies like Satyam, Hexaware, TCS, and WIPRO setting up their facilities in the city. Besides, the Special Economic Zone will host companies in various sectors in the state. One of the most pronounced investments in the city includes that of Boeings USD 100 million maintenance, repair and overhaul base for Asia. This project will lead to a number of job opportunities, talent movement to the state and thus residential development around the site of the project.
The Airport
One of the most talked about projects, the Airport, is the largest economic development project underway in India. The project brought along industry and real estate interest to the city. The projects attempt to make Nagpur, one of the most central locations in India into a cargo hub with the development of the Cargo airport. The project integrates road and rail connectivity. Project consists of two parts namely International airport to act as a cargo hub and a Special Economic Zone with residential zone covering a total area of 40.25 sq. km on the southern end of Nagpur. Spread over 3310 hectares, the MIHAN project will utilize 1200 hectares exclusively for the airport. Since the launch of the project in 2006 there has been extensive commercial and residential development in the city. This also led to a surge in prices in the real estate in the city.
Residential Property in Nagpur
Once a dormant city, Nagpur has made good progress with Malls sprawling up and city coming alive, day and night. Dhantoli, Wardha, Marathahalli, Shankar Nagar and Amravati Road, Manish Nagar have seen extensive residential development and command good rates. The city has not only seen development in the city areas but has also expanded in the north, east and west.
The city has seen massive push in prices owing to the rising demand. Civil Lines remains the citys premium residential neighbourhood, fetching highest rates
Not only that, the city is seeing development integrated townships. as there is abundance of supply there are builders booking large pieces of land. Satyam Group and Sahara Group have shown interest in developing such projects, while DLF has undertaken to develop the SEZ Park in the city and aims at generating over 50000 jobs in the city.

Some of the local builders that have undertaken residential projects include Hindustan Builders, Nikunj Builders (P) Ltd, Roshni Developers and Shewalkar Developers Ltd.
Commercial development in Nagpur
Sky rocketing prices in the commercial real estate sector is the talk of the town in the city. Some of the most intriguing deals at the highest prices include the sale of land by The Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) at Rs. 80 lakh an acre. Within the city the prices are even higher. Even at this price the demand has been steadily moving up with absorption around 50-60%. The logistics park has attracted investment may times over the original investment.
8 million sqft of space in Nagpur is covered with shopping malls. Matching the needs of the residential development and increasing need for sophisticated shopping formats, WHC Road, Itwari and Dharampeth have seen high class retail development. Also, the citys shopping needs are met by markets in Sitabuldi, Sadar, Central Avenue, and Gandhi Baug. There are also another 6-8 shopping malls planned in the city to come up in the by the end of this financial year. These are expected to be located in Grain market in Wardhman Nagar, Jaripatka, Netaji Market and Water Works Department in Sitabuldi, Gokulpeth Market and Pachpoli Flyover near Kamal Square.
Investors in the city

NRIs have shown a special interest in the city, as it is one of the most lucrative tier II city in India. Also, a lot of people who moved out of city to the metros can now plan and move back to the city. This category looks at real estate with high interest.

How to invest

It is easy to find out about the city through the internet. One of the easiest ways is to log onto any site and find about the builders and brokers in the city and contact them through the site. As currently the supply is good, once the first steps are taken finalizing the property will not be much of a hassle.

Nagpur is in its most attractive phases right now and will continue to be the hotspot for coming few years.

Yes, it is a unique business idea to invest in an Oak and hazel truffle farm. Investing in a hazel and oak truffle farm should be considered as a longer term investment, but when the trees start to produce, you will have an absolute excellent return on your investment, besides that, you can also get your hands on the superior quality of perigord truffles that the trees will produce. Normally, the truffle trees take a minimum of four years or a little longer before you could start seeing the production of truffles.

Let us now see how various investment avenues for owing a share in a truffle farm can help you

Shares in a Truffle Farm
For investors who cannot invest huge amounts of time and money in owning their own truffle farm, they can still become shareholders in such a farm, which will suit people who have little or no knowledge of truffle farming. This is a hassle-free option to make profits from the truffles, as the maintenance and the entire harvesting processing is taken care of by actual owner of the farm; and their trained staff. You can sit back and watch your investment grow. All the technicalities that go in for maintaining the trees are dealt with by professionals

Why not adopt a truffle tree?
Yes you could adopt a specific tree and make your investment more meaningful; plant a truffle oak sapling and automatically get a share of the truffles that grow on the particular tree you have adopted. We will provide owners with a photograph of the tree you have adopted and also an adoption certificate. You can also visit the tree and be involved in the development of your truffle tree, eventually participating in a truffle hunt.

Have a fair idea about the different kinds of truffle
There are actually thirty specimens of truffle but the most popular kind is the perigord or the black truffle. If you have a sound knowledge about the various kinds of truffles it becomes easier to make an investment, just look at the price per kilo, and you will soon see that for your initial investment will be returned many times over.

As of last year, finance and retirement experts suggest that approximately 2% of the nations $3 trillion in IRA investment is stashed in real estate and other non-traditional investment vehicles. If you’re considering using your IRA savings to invest in real estate, there are some excellent reasons that you should choose Philippine Condotel Investment real estate to drive your retirement portfolio into high profit margins.

Beth Collingz, PLC Global Marketing Director for the Lancaster Brand of Condotels in the Philippines, said Investing in foreign real estate is neither as risky nor as tricky as a lot of people would have you believe. While land and housing prices in the U.S. have soared astronomically in the past decade, the world real estate market is a far different story. It’s still possible to buy a preconstruction Condotel suite at Lancaster The Atrium located in Metro Manila, Philippines, for less than $50,000.

Lancaster Manila Atrium Tower A, Shaw Boulevard, Metro Manila, Philippines is a “Full Service” Condominium Hotel [“Condotel”] offering Studio, One, Two and Three Bedroom Suites for sale. To be completed and ready for turnover from December 2010, the Lancaster Suites Manila Atrium Tower II will provide unit owners with premier residential condo units with the option of enrolling their units in the Lancaster Condotel Rental Pool and earn Rental Incomes [at current purchase levels] of some 12-16% ROI per annum as Owner Non-Residents when not using their units through Condotel Management and reciprocal arrangement with Lancaster Cebu Resort Residences. This makes Lancaster Suites one of the Hottest Investment Opportunities in the Philippines.

The beauty of holding property in the Philippines is the low cost of property taxes and maintenance. A $50,000 Condotel suite may set you back $200 in property taxes per year, and maintenance costs are similarly low. When you add in the tax-protected status of investments made in your IRA, and the 12-16% returns through rental income through the Condotel advantage, you have an incredible ROI on a purchase of Philippine Condotel investment real estate enthused Collingz.

What’s the downside about owning Philippine Condotel Investment real estate as an IRA investment? You cannot reside at your investment property as long as the IRA retirement account is titled as the owner of the property. The self directed IRA rules about benefiting personally from your IRA investments are strict – you are not allowed to make use of any property owned by your IRA, or you risk losing its tax-protected status and worse yet you could face penalties from the IRS. You can, however, rent out your IRA investment for steady income – putting the profits and cash flow into your IRA, or sell your Philippine Real Estate Investment for immediate profit, as long as those profits remain inside the IRA.

If you’re looking for an unusual and high earning investment for your IRA, then take a serious look at owning Philippine Condotel investment real estate. It can help kick your IRA earnings into high gear.

Global Life Management, Inc., PLC Internationals Marketing Partner based in the U.S recently announced its Self-Directed IRA Affiliate Program Available to US buyers of the Lancaster Brand of Condo Hotels in the Philippines.

With the impending slowdown of the U.S. housing market and failing pension plans, many investors are turning to using their IRAs to invest in overseas properties and earn tax-free or tax-deferred income. This creates an outstanding opportunity for by offering self-directed IRAs to invest in the Lancaster Suites Atrium Tower preconstruction units.

With preconstruction property appreciating at some 20-30% per annum not only does the Real Estate Appreciation look good but the rental income is in excess of what many IRA and Pension Plans offer for the same or similar investment.

Jeffrey Clarke, President of Global Life Management, a company specializing in Philippine businesses and investments, is now offering its affiliate program to interested clients based in the U.S, announced that We handle all the paperwork, answer any client questions and can even setup a LLC driven IRA with checkbook control all for a price $1,775 less expensive than our major competitors.

We’re finding clients, who previously were undecided, are now very interested in using a Self-Directed IRA to purchase a Condo Hotel unit. Not only can they qualify for the 20% discount, in many cases, but they are excited to learn they can earn rental income tax-free or tax-deferred, saving them tax dollars on capital gains; says Jeffrey.

Beth Collingz says that many new investors are looking to replace failed pension plans and other future saving schemes with a solid investment in Real Estate. Clients are looking for investments that will give them an income for retirement as an alternative to traditional private pension plans that have failed. Most company pension plans are insufficient as are Government Pensions. Bank rates for Savings accounts are at record lows. Savvy investors are now looking for a more solid investment with potential for monthly income. Condotels in the Philippines fit the bill

This potential, high rates of rental returns from Condotel Investments, currently from 12% up to 16% per annum, opens up a huge market not traditionally looked at by Real Estate Agents and Brokers whom all so often run around looking for normal residential profile buyers without looking at the by far bigger picture of investments, investing and retirement. “We’re here to help our clients, educating our clients and advising them of emerging investment opportunities. Self-Directed IRAs and the Lancaster Suites Atrium Condotels, fit this bill exactly; adds Jeffrey.

GLM is a global investment consulting company, specializing in educating its clients on emerging investment opportunities, metals, currencies and self-directed IRAs

People are always looking for some new investment sector as per their risk appetite. Yeah many times wrong investment can burn all hard work into ash. So, after having a big recession and still Europe economic crisis on the go one always look for safe investment. In last decade one sector has outperformed in an all recession and it is wine investment and fine wine investment.

Before doing any investment there is certain thing which is very important to take care to be safe and secure. One must have to identify some risk factors and all. So first step is to decide on which sector you want to invest then how much amount, and would you like e o one amount or you want systematic investment plan.

Timing of investment is also plays a big role in high return on investment. The most important point is that when you are investing, the time is very important; its totally depending upon current market condition. If you have analysis of market condition you would opt for wine investment. Look at the statistics for wine investment In UK, before a decade, fine wine portfolio was around 10000 and after decade it is almost 50000.

Wine investment will not have adverse effect if any economic crisis happens globally. As we can see in last recession wine investment standout and gave high return. So one can easily say wine investment can give return even in recession. In last 10 years wine investment has given 900% return which is really impressive and attractive.

Cult wines Ltd is the leader where you can get the rarest wines at very competitive rate and if anyone wants to go to the most safe and secure investment than will preference go to the Cult Wines Ltd also Cult Wines Ltd provides solutions for sourcing, investing, storing, selling and consuming Fine Wine of any kind to the investors or for any type of businessman. Cult Wines Ltd provides the fined tuned portfolio mainly designed for high capital growth and accounts and regulated mostly at warehouses. Cult Wines Ltd mainly deals with active foreign and domestic holdings and if any beginner wants to invest in the market than no safe investment except in wines and Cult Wines Ltd where you will get higher returns on investments and also provides the portfolio management services.

So far by this information I hope one can easily take decision for wine investment and Cult wines ltd can help you to build right wine portfolio.

The hit of the global economic crisis coupled with the harsh and extended drought has transformed the once-vulnerable Paraguay, with its rich agricultural industry and extensive hydro-electricity resources, into an attraction for foreign investors

Canadian entrepreneurs and investors Neal De Florio and Daniel Wang, Principals of Monarca Capital, are smitten with Paraguays stable economy, high incentives, low taxes and abundance of water, extensive arable land and clean electricity, oil and gas. The strategic geographic location of Paraguay, nicknamed the Heart of South America is at the heart of the highest income region of the continent, which accounts for almost 50% of South America`s GDP, say the investors.

Wang and De Florio are in for the long run. They have worked diligently to identify a number of investment opportunities in Paraguay in the banking, agricultural, real estate ,and infrastructure sectors. De Florio says, Our first priority is to find the right partners in Paraguay, then we focus on the opportunities that are available to us in each of the specific sectors we have earmarked. Doing business with honest and ethical people is paramount to long-term success in foreign markets.

Monarcas long-term aim is to develop funds for multiple sectors with foreign equity combined with traditional debt and/or fixed income securities. According to Wang, investments into Paraguay would be best suited for the mid-sized institutional investor or high net worth private investors. He says, You wont necessarily find deep discount opportunities as you would in the United States after the financial crisis, but you will find exceptional opportunities below their intrinsic value and at discounts compared to its neighbouring countries of Argentina and Brazil.

The stigma of corruption in its banking sector cant be easily dismissed, but Wang believes the Paraguayan banking sector is solid due to much improved and notably stricter regulations under the direction of the Central Bank. The development of inter-banking systems has resulted in increased interest from international banks such as Banco Regional, which is 40% owned by Rabobank, HSBC, and Citbank, he says. The entrepreneurs are also encouraged by a recent press release announcing Paraguays two largest banksInterBanco, a unit of Brazils Ita Unibanco (NYSE: ITUB), and the local subsidiary of Spains BBVA (NYSE: BBV)both posting the biggest profits in the system from January to August of this year.

While Paraguay enjoys the backing of its international banking partners, it cannot be denied that only 20% of its population has access to financial services due to its extensive rural areas. De Florio and Wang have identified an opportunity in the very need to shift banking from the current 75% dominant sight deposits (similar to that of chequing accounts) to medium- to long-term financing and broaden banking participation. There are plenty of development opportunities to fill that gap. Paraguayan banks and the government are committed to achieving widespread access to financial services in the country, says De Florio.

In the real estate sector, De Florio and Wang strongly believe developing low- to middle-income housing is an opportunity to cash in on a strong demand to alleviate the housing shortage.

Nothing could be more surprising than Paraguays recent historical milestone. After a decade, Brazil decided to increase Paraguays compensation from $120 million to $360 million for its share in operating the worlds largest energy-generating plant, the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant, jointly owned by Paraguay and Brazil on the Parana River. Paraguay will soon enter into the Brazilian energy market as the agreement will allow Paraguay to sell its unused power in Brazil. Investors can look forward to infrastructural developments with the replacement of obsolete electric transmission lines by 2012. The powerful lines will increase Paraguays current 10% generating capacity to correspond with its industrial growth. While other emerging agricultural sectors could account for a deficit because of inadequate water supply, Paraguays advantage of having extensive water reserves and arable land together with low energy costs will continue to boost agricultural investment incentives.

For Monarca, Paraguay is a country with unlimited growth potential and unrivaled benefits. With Paraguays equidistance to Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean and to Chile and the Pacific Ocean, and with Rio Paranas natural borders to Brazil and Argentina, Paraguay enjoys access to main commercial centres, free ports, regional ports, barges and transatlantic ships.. It is a land where the VAT is, at 10%, the lowest of all South American countries; a land where 0% is applied to import tariffs on capital goods, capital transfer for investments of more than $5 million, and payments of interest on foreign loans. And, Paraguay is the ideal country for a business platform for logistics and distribution centres, IT, call centres, financial services, light manufacturing, vehicle and machinery yards and tourism offices.

For other foreign investors, Paraguay awakens an anxious attraction. Moving in the direction of greater investment transparency, stricter guidelines and minimized risks and costs, Paraguay is positioned to break down its barriers and could prove to be among the first in Latin America to emerge as paradise found.

Priti Ramjee is the President of Stratagem North, Ltd., a Canadian company. Priti has been specializing in global opportunities for asset based lending for eight years.