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Empty nests and empty nest eggs

In Delhi itself there is no land to spare

construction, real estate, realty
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The proposed amendment to the IBC will place homebuyers at the same level as banks and other financial creditors

Sunil Sethi
A civil servant I know, retired in Kolkata, has been sitting and biting his nails all the way up in Noida for many months now. He is trying to sell a flat he purchased in the building-boom a decade ago to buy a home for his twilight years. Even at a 20 per cent loss on his investment, he cannot find a buyer. His daughter, a mid-career Noida resident, is also stuck. Her husband and she took out a loan to buy a small flat, hoping the rental, once the mortgage was over, would supplement their income. Months later, the
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