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Sri Lanka's land restriction is not an absolute bar, it is a 50% shareholding line with two further carve-outs on top: a majority-foreign company listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, and a ministerial exemption for recognised strategic projects. Which route actually applies depends on the structure, not on whether a foreigner is involved at all.

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DTAA relief on Indian property income means something different depending on where the owner actually lives: a real, calculable saving for a US or UK resident with home-country tax to offset, and mostly a withholding-accuracy question for a UAE resident with no second tax to relieve in the first place.

Market Guide

Igatpuri is not one market, it is three: an accessible town-centre pocket, a scenic Bhandardara-facing premium, and a fast-moving Kasara corridor. Which one actually fits depends on whether the buyer is optimising for commute, view or momentum, not on the Igatpuri name alone.

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Dubai's freehold zones are a specific, growing list, not a default that applies citywide, and the list has recently moved in a direction most buyers do not expect: entire districts converting from leasehold to freehold. Confirm a building's actual status against the Dubai Land Department's own registration before assuming a familiar neighbourhood name, or an older published list, means outright ownership.

Investment GuideFeatured

TDS on an NRI's property sale is withheld on the full price, not the actual gain, and a lower deduction certificate is what closes that gap. What used to be Form 13 under Section 197 is now Form 128 under Section 395(1), and applying before a buyer is even found is what actually makes the certificate useful.

Market Analysis

The pockets around Mulshi worth watching now, Pirangut, Ponde and Supa, sit at three different points on the same curve, each one earlier and cheaper than the last, and each one a correspondingly larger bet on a ring road that has not finished being built yet.

Lifestyle

Renting a week in Rishikesh every year is, for most people, still cheaper than owning there. The real question is what changes once the visits multiply, and what the 2025 land law now actually permits an outsider to buy once the arithmetic tips that way.

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A Thai condominium's foreign quota is a hard 49% cap measured in floor area, not a soft guideline, and it can be exhausted with no warning on the listing itself. Confirm the actual number in writing before signing anything, since a rejected registration is a worse outcome than a slower verification step.

Investment GuideFeatured

Buying property in India above 50 lakh rupees still means the buyer withholds 1%, at the same threshold as before. What changed on 1 April 2026 is the section number and the form: Section 393(1) and Form 141 Schedule B replace what used to be Section 194-IA and Form 26QB.

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Indonesia gives a foreign buyer two real routes, Hak Pakai held directly or HGB through a PT PMA, and neither one is freehold. Confirm which of the two a specific listing actually offers, and note that the company route just became meaningfully cheaper to set up.

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Selling land in India as an NRI in 2026 means working under two overlapping changes at once: the 2024 capital gains rewrite and the 2025 Income Tax Act's wholesale renumbering. Confirm the rate against the acquisition date, and confirm the section number against the transaction date, before trusting either from an older source.

Market AnalysisFeatured

An advertised Dubai rental yield is a gross number, and the realistic one sits below it once a building's service charge, management fees and a fair vacancy allowance are actually deducted. Ask which number is being quoted before comparing two properties on yield alone.