Monday 17 October 2011

Building Construction Tips


Today Real estate is not only related to the sale and purchase of buildings and land, but also belong to the construction of buildings such as apartments, land, villas, houses, commercial properties and offices. It may be for commercial or residential. You can contact any realtors for the construction of buildings and apartments. They provide the best services as compared to all broker services. If you are planning to build a house, you want to consider several factors.

Foundation is the first step of building construction. Foundation should be made such that it is strong enough to keep the building. Since it is backbone of building. Piling should be done, if necessary. After constructing the basement, you can start the building construction with the proper advice taken from a civil engineer. The final phase after brick construction is flooring. Flooring should be made after completing the whole brick construction. The floor covering should be done very carefully. Since flooring is expensive, you should take care. Otherwise it may rise the budget. Proper planning should be done before starting flooring work. The best choice is to choose the same type of marble or granite to cover the entire surface of the house, except bathrooms. Tiles is better choice for Bathroom. The tile on these floors should blends with other fixtures in the bathroom. Also Kitchens should be made such that there is enough space for the maid to cook. The cabinets must be made within the kitchen. Each kit is designed for each specific objective, such as plates set, dishes, etc. There should also contain enough space to place the gas stove or other cooking equipments.

After flooring, painting is done. Paints can be chosen according to your needs. Do not use a dark paint in the bedroom. It will change the look of the room. Use the same color to paint continuous walls. You can choose high quality wood or timbers for doors and windows.

Thursday 10 March 2011

10 TIPS FOR REDUCING CONSTRUCTION COSTS

Constructing the home is simple, but reducing the cost of construction is difficult. So you should aware about how to construct your building by reducing the cost. Unawareness may leads to loss of money and time. Some of the factors for reducing the cost is discussed below.

1. Contact any builders to get the details for the estimation of cost required. Also inquire the details for quality, size, shape and other features you want.

2. You can also contact any person who newly constructed a building and take advice from him.

3. Avoid using large number of windows in the home and also minimize the size of window.

4. High roofs may also increase the cost of house. So opt for a simple roof system.

5. Also consider the size, style, shape and quality of homes which suits your budget.

6. More angles and corners in the home may leads to increase in cost. This may also consume more time which results in high labor cost. So you can make dome shaped homes which is costless compared to other shapes.

7. Almost 10% of total cost of construction should gone for flooring work. But we can reduce this cost by selecting right kind of flooring material according to the budget of every person.

8. Also proper planning can reduce the cost of overruns up to 10% of total cost.

9. Try to construct your home early as possible with planning, because cost of building a home increases around 4% to 6% per year.

10.Don't opt for change in design at the last minute of construction.

INTERIOR FURNISHING

In order to keep the home beautiful, interior furnishing should be done. The furnishing period comes when people facing financial crisis after the construction of house. So furnishing budget should be determined during planning phase and should be saved early. Also we want to make a list for what is the furniture we want to buy. If there is any old furniture, then we want to decide whether to repair it or not. The other things we want to consider for furnishing is curtains, tables, chair and so on. Creative thinking can make a difference in furnishing.
                              Interior furnishing can be divided into two as Soft Furnishing and Hard Furnishing. Hard furnishing includes table, chair and bed whereas Soft furnishing includes curtain, cushion, bed sheet, carpet, rug, door mat and so on. Only one style should follow for interior designing otherwise it may alter the look of the room. Nowadays, people are selecting same color of interior materials for the furniture. This type of designing is known as Theme Designing. Traditional or Classical type interior materials can be used for furnishing. The interior materials should be designed such that it suits with the exterior part of house.

It is difficult to say how much to spent for furnishing a home. The amount may vary according to the number of furniture, the cost of furniture, the clothes used for covering the furniture and other materials used. Experts are sayings; today 10 to 30% of total cost of construction is spent on furnishing. Every man can buy the furniture according to his capacity. Ordinary man can buy upholstery sofas whereas rich man can buy original Italian leather sofas which is little expensive.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

THE REAL ESTATE SERVICE


The term Real Estate is mainly used for the movable property under legal rules. This term is widely used today for the transactions of commercial as well as residential properties. Real Estate Companies provides the intermediary services for the buyer and seller of property. They assist the customers to get the right plot for their construction of building. In addition to that, they are also accepting projects for building construction. Once the projects have been accepted by a real estate company, they bring the project to completion, while preserving the objectives of timely delivery, fine quality, high efficiency and optimized costs.

                                         Every people have a dream of owning a house. You want to contact any real estate agent in order to fulfill your dream of owning a home or flat. Real Estate companies are giving opportunities for those people to buy well constructed apartments, beautifully located villas, well furnished flats and single compounded house. Buying a home is not an easy task. You want to consider several factors while buying a home. You can contact any real estate companies rather than contacting any local brokerage services, because they are charging around 5 to 6% of deal price. Also there is an increased chance of betrayal. 

                                        Today Real estate companies are also providing services for real estate consultants and contractors for architectural, constructional and engineering solutions.  Also their charges should be affordable.  They are conducting continuous marketing surveys and also give instructions on work with state licensing and approval bodies. Real Estate companies also update the surveys and analysis of land rate which will help customer to find the most comfortable place for their construction of building. So select a proper real estate company in order to build a dream home.

Sunday 27 February 2011

PROPERTY INVESTMENT TIPS

             
Today Real Estate becomes one of the most successful and fast growing businesses. So those who are looking for a carrier in this field should have more chances of success in life. But investment should be done carefully, because there are also chances for losing money. Before going to buy the property, you should take a study on the land you are looking to buy. Also don’t buy the lands or building, which is in legal issues. First of all, you should consider the market demand of land. After that you can buy the land. If you buy any building or apartment for cheap rate, you can attain profit by selling it for more amounts. If you are choosing this field, you should be well known about the up and down price rates of land in the current market. 
 
Nowadays, the local price rate of land in the rural as well as urban area is increasing due to the increased price rates of land in the global market. So those who are looking for a carrier in real estate should have increased chance of success. You want to buy residential as well as commercial properties and should sell it for more money in order to attain profit. Also you want to buy the local lands and buildings, because these local lands will soon change to townships. The demand of land will rise in the coming years due to urbanization. So don’t hesitate to buy the property. In addition to buying and selling of property, you should also involve in the construction of building, flats, apartments, villas and houses. Constructing the building and then selling it for more amounts is also a part of real estate. The building may be flat, apartment or villas. With the high density of population and shrinkage of land in proper proportion, people were moving to flats. Considering these factors, property investment will be more demanded in coming days.