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New launch or ready to move: the honest trade
One saves 12–18% and costs you time and certainty. The other does the reverse.
bhooomi Editorial · 22 June 2026 · 6 min read
New-launch inventory is discounted for a reason: you are financing the developer's construction and carrying the delivery risk. Ready inventory is priced at a premium for the mirror reason.
The discount is real. Across the corridors we track, a launch-stage unit prices 12–18% below an equivalent completed unit in the same locality, and the gap narrows steadily as the structure goes up.
The cost is real too. Under-construction purchases attract 5% GST that completed units do not. If you are renting while you wait, three years of rent on a comparable unit frequently exceeds the entire discount.
Ready inventory also removes the two variables that cause the most regret: what the finished apartment actually looks like, and whether the promised amenities were built. You can stand in the room.
The case for buying early is strongest when the corridor is repricing faster than the discount decays — an airport, a metro line, a highway. It is weakest when the only thesis is that property goes up.
Put this to work on real inventory
Every listing on bhooomi publishes carpet area, the loading factor and the full price history, so the checks in this piece take seconds rather than an afternoon.
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