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Vakil Housing Plans Affordable Homes

Date:07/08/08 Press:Financial Chronicle The company hopes to tap the growing demand for branded value-for-money residential units. Vakil Housing Development Corporation ( VHDC ) plans to enter the affordable housing segment, which has lately attracted premier real estate developers. The Bangalore-based company intends to build housing units catering to the message in another three to four [...]


IT, realty bond strengthens

Date:19/07/08 Press:Deccan Chronicle ( Estate ) Although in the midst of a slack the realty sector is developing an IT edge and has entered mobile space. As the realty sector hits the rough waters, the IT and Realty bond has grown stronger. The global economic slowdown and softening housing markets has cooled off the manic [...]


Green Revolution.

Date:21/08/08 Press:Financial Chronicle ( Estate ) Developers in India have formulated a new strategy of wooing customers. With increased emphasis on the space set aside for planting trees, shrubs and plants, they are cashing inon the growing demand for houses with “greener pastures”. Gone are the days when residential real estate projects consisted onlyu of [...]


Grandma’s recipe for an Eco Home.

Date:31/07/08 Press:Times of India If you want a green home, all you need to do is look at traditional houses for solutions, say Swati Anand and Debojyoti Ghosh. On your summer vacations at your grandparents’ house, have you ever wondered why the heat doesn’t seem oppressive. The red oxide flooring soothes your feet and forget [...]


Organise and Succeed

Date:July 08 Press:Business Gyan ” How I get 4 Days of work done in just 4 hours and have fun in the process.” Read on … Picture this: I was taking care of the HR department of our Company and I was buried with applications that were flowing into our growing company. I badly needed [...]


Beautiful Photographs of Vakil Garden City Clubhouse

Here are some beautiful photographs of the Vakil Garden City Clubhouse that were recently taken. The Clubhouse architecture is based on a Mogul theme. Enjoy


Behind the gates

Date: August 3, 2008. The Sunday Read – Bangalore Mirror. Upmarket Bangalore is retreating into the safe haven of gated communities that not only promise fancy homes but also an elite lifestyle. It’s the latest obsession of the young ‘nouveau riche,’ those global entities who flit across time-zones and need a nest back home that [...]


Girish H.R. joins as CEO of Vakil Housing

We’d like to welcome Girish H.R. to the Vakil Housing family as CEO-Operations.  He carries with him Two decades of Industry Experience.  His Impressive academic credentials include BE with Distinction, two Post Graduations: PG in General Management from IIM-B and PG in ADR from NALSAR. His last assignment was with CB Richard Ellis and has [...]


First in India: Online Property Tax

We love being the first in India! because we believe our Customers come first and we take the extra mile to give them the best that no one else gives.  At Vakil Housing we’ve taken several initiatives that no one in the Real Estate industry have done before.  Vakil Housing was the first in India [...]


Corporates Go Green to Cut Carbon.

Deccan Chronicle | 10/06/2008 – By Sangeetha Chengappa. The National Geographic Society’s Greendex, an index measuring the economic impact of consumer lifestyle choices, finds that Indians and Brazilians have the world’s most environmentally sustainable lifestyle and Americans the least. Though that’s a good news to start with, there is plenty more to be done before [...]