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Realty firm The 3C Company on Friday said it will invest about Rs 650 crore in next three years to develop a housing project in Noida and has raised Rs 85 crore from Kotak Realty Funds to partly meet its investment.

“We have launched a affordable housing project ’3c Lotus Zing’ in Noida where the company would develop 2,500 units,” The 3C Company Director Vidur Bharadwaj told reporters here.

This is the fourth housing project of the Noida-based firm, which focuses on development of green buildings.

Bharadwaj said the company would invest Rs 650 crore to build this project over the next three years and is expecting a realisation of Rs 850 crore from it.

He also announced that the Kotak Realty Funds has made an investment of Rs 85 crore in this project and could pump in more money in future.

“We have signed the term sheet with Kotak Realty Fund,” he said, but did not divulge details about how much stake it is offloading in the project.

Giving further details about the project, he said the company would sell units at a price of Rs 3,150 per sq ft all inclusive. The size of the units starts from 575 sq ft and the largest is 1,415 sq ft.

The company would start the construction of the project by December this year and is targeting to complete it in the next three years.

Setting up a benchmark of green development in Delhi/NCR, The 3C Company is the only Real Estate Development team in Asia to have Three operational Platinum Rated and Two Gold Rated LEED Certified Green Buildings from USGBC (United States Green Building Council). The 3C company is winning awards continuously for five years for the excellence & outstanding development in Real Estate Sector. It has set up the benchmark in Real Estate for the Green Development & quality construction.

A ground breaking initiative by Huntingdonshire District Council called the Green House Project has opened in St Ives Cambridgeshire. Tritechnology™ are pleased to have supplied the LED lighting throughout the house.

The Optech 40 and Optech 60 LED modules have replaced conventional 40watt and 60watt lamps in all of the decorative ceiling lights ,wall lights and standard lamps throughout the property. Tritechnology™ Module 10 LED has been used in all of the ceiling recessed downlight products

The Optech 40 and Optech 60 is a revolutionary, energy efficient ultra compact new light source, combining the lifetime and reliability of the worlds leading LED technology, with the convenience and brightness of conventional lighting The Optech 40 consumes just 7 watts and the Optech 60 just 10 watts. Achieving energy savings in excess of 80%.

All electrical, thermal and optical issues have been considered in the design, resulting in a light source that is simply plug and play

Optech 40 or Optech 60 LED modules can replace the conventional lamp and lamp holder within the majority of commercially available light fittings.

With this method the energy saving is truly sustainable. Optech is British designed and British made. Tritechnology™ is a registered trademark. If you would like more information about how to purchase this product contact Peter Malt at peterm@esea.org.uk

The Greencell technologies – Home energy use in the UK is currently responsible for producing more than 27% of all carbon emissions.

Whereas progress to reduce this is being made by improving the energy performance of new build properties, we must face the huge challenge of addressing existing, older inefficient properties, many of which will still be standing and occupied by 2050.

Such inefficient homes account for more than 90% of the existing housing stock, which highlights the importance of adapting them to suit 21st century living. Improving the thermal efficiency of existing properties will not only help meet the challenges of climate change, it will help householders tackle rising fuel costs, encourage well being and a provide a healthier living environment.

As part of Huntingdonshire District Council’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change, we have purchased two properties, which will be ‘sustainably’ refurbished and opened up to the public as demonstration homes.

In Huntingdonshire approximately 67,000 homes are privately owned. There is huge potential to improve the energy and water efficiency of the properties, which will help to reduce the district’s carbon footprint and bring existing homes up to a higher level of environmental performance.

The UK Government is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050.

If we are to reduce our carbon emissions and help slow down the effects of climate change we need a step change in our thinking – the way we live, travel and refurbish our properties plays a major part in that. It’s important for the Green House Project to demonstrate and influence sustainable refurbishment and to encourage a ‘low carbon lifestyle’.

The district council is working with the Building Research Establishment (BRE), whose expertise and guidance is integral to the project. The BRE will be providing the specifications for the improvements, which will be based around the results of extensive thermal and acoustic testing which has already been undertaken in both of the houses.

The Greencell technologies – The Green House Project will take a ‘whole house’ approach to refurbishment, starting with the building fabric and insulation, windows, heating systems, ventilation, water efficiency measures and the installation of renewable energy technology including solar thermal for hot water and solar photovoltaics (PV) for energy.

Most parents of school-age children are forced to confine their family vacations to summer months, Christmas holiday and Spring break. Other families can choose to take their vacations at any time that is appropriate to their personal preferences.

When people consider their vacation or weekend getaways, few understand the true range of options they really do have available to them. Many people think their only options for lodging on vacation is limited to: hotels, motels, cabins, RV’s, travel trailers, and tents. But the truth is that there are a few more options that most people never even consider.

Condominiums, also referred to as Condos, are another great lodging option to consider. But, just speaking the word Condo brings to mind for many the concept of Time Share Condos. Of course, that is one option with a Condo, but we are going to look at the other options as well.

Condominium Residency Arrangements

A condominium, very literally, is very similar to an apartment. It is a fully self-contained living arrangement, with a living area, bedrooms, private balconies, and a full kitchen; and most condos contain all of the amenities, including big screen televisions, DVD players, high-speed Internet access, and other creature comforts we generally have in our homes, such as washers and dryers. Many condos also have hot tubs or Jacuzzis in the apartments.

Condos are basically full apartments, located in areas of prime real estate, such as Las Vegas on the Strip, or many other locations around the world on beachfront property. Condos generally provide additional benefits such as swimming pools, weight rooms, restaurants, and other high-value goodies.

We are going to look at four types of Condo purchase arrangements in this section.

1. Condominium Ownership ? Condo ownership costs include the purchase price of the apartment and yearly fees to cover maintenance costs.

2. Condominium Timeshares ? With a timeshare, the basic concept is that more people can afford them, because the cost of ownership is split among several owners on a per week basis. When someone buys a timeshare, they are buying a 1/52nd ownership of the Condo for a specific, pre-designated calendar week. With a timeshare, one is entitled to take over the property beginning on a specific calendar date, and they must vacate the property at the end of the week.

3. Condominium Rentals ? Instead of timesharing a condo, many people opt to rent a condo, which frequently requires a purchase of a specific weekly period, although many condos provide flexibility so that you can decide which week you would like to rent. Some condo owners will allow individuals to rent by the day, but those have a much lower availability, than the condos that rent by the week. More on this later in this article.

4. The Dreaded Seminar Timeshare ? Some companies are so desperate to find people to listen to their sales message that they are willing to put prospects up in a timeshare condo for the weekend or week, so long as the person(s) agrees to attend a specific number of sales presentations during their stay.

Benefits of Condos Over Hotels

The greatest benefit of condominiums over hotels is two-fold.

First, condos are fully self-contained, providing kitchens, spacious living and all of the luxuries of home to their guests. Many also provide high-speed Internet and data access to their business-class guests. For many folks, the full kitchen is the greatest advantage of a condo, in that, they will not have to eat nearly every meal in a restaurant, enabling the vacationer to spend his or her money on attractions rather than on restaurant foods.

The second greatest benefit for condominiums is three-fold: location, location, and location. Condos are generally located on some of the best prime real estate properties in the world. For example, City Center in Las Vegas is located on the Strip between the Bellagio Hotel and Casino and the New York, New York Hotel and Casino. Beachfront condos exist in nearly every major beach destination in the world. Condos are available in San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta and Miami, just to name a few metropolitan locations. And locations are not restricted to U.S. destinations; in fact, condos are available in nearly every travel destination of the world.

Benefits of Condos Over RV’s and Travel Trailers

RV’s are nice, but considering the cost of fuel these days, they are seldom a great option for most travelers. A friend of mine recently priced a RV for a planned family vacation, and he found the cost for eight days would easily exceed one thousand dollars, plus mileage over 200 miles, plus fuel. At eight miles per gallon, his planned trip of 500 miles one-way would have easily translated into 125 gallons of gasoline and more than 0, just in fuel costs, at current fuel prices.

Sure, the RV is still more spacious than a car during a long road trip, but for the cost, renting a Cadillac for the trip might just make more sense. Given the claustrophobic nature of his wife, he felt that train or airplane might make more sense for his roundtrip transportation needs.

Transportation costs aside, the travel trailer and RV are both generally a bit confining in the space considerations. Certainly, the RV beats the travel trailer hands down in this department, most of the time, but when you consider the stress of stuffing a family of five with three young children into a RV, there is never enough space available for the sanity of the parents.

Benefits Over the Great Outdoors

With smaller travel trailers, travelers are still stuck with cooking outdoors. Sure, the travel trailer might be easier than the tent to set up, but travel trailers usually have small kitchens, if they even have a kitchen at all. Cooking outdoors for a family is more of a challenge than many in today’s world want to consider.

The limited amount of refrigerated storage is another area that is usually greatly strained with the use of the average travel trailer or tent camping experience. Going into the woods with a ice chest is fine for an afternoon trip, but once that trip expands beyond the life of the ice in the chest, then food options drop off considerably. This is the greatest cause of stress for people planning such trips. They always need to manage how they can maximize their food store, within very limited-size refrigerated storage containers.

In today’s modern world, it is frequently impossible to escape the reliance we have come to have for modern technology. This leads to a need for power supplies that can accompany the traveler, to keep them plugged into their gadgets. Tents and small travel trailers do not accommodate this need in many instances.

The Purpose of Vacations Is Rest and Relaxation, Which Is Sometimes Lost

For many of us, the purpose of a vacation is rest and relaxation. But, as we have seen above, the challenges of taking long trips can sometimes produce more stress than relaxation.

Another friend told me that he was very much relieved when his parents decided not to take any more summer vacations “for the family.” He said that by the end of the first day, every member of his family was ready to strangle the other. By the end of day two of their six-day traveling vacations, everyone wanted to go home, but his dad was stubborn to a fault. His family had tried nearly all of the above options: tents, travel trailers, RV’s, hotels and motels.

Even today, twenty years later, he cannot fathom a family vacation like his parents took, without his blood pressure going up. A few years back, he had tried the condominium rental route, and he has never looked back.

He told me that for him and his young family, the only vacation choice they will ever take advantage of is the condo rentals. He said the money he saves by not going to restaurants, generally covers the extra costs of the condominium. He said the enjoyment that he and his family experience, is far greater than what it would be if they forced themselves to live in a hotel room for a week. He said the extra goodies that the condos generally provide help him to give his family a much more rounded and robust experience. He says the added space and convenience of the condo experience permits him and his wife to relax more during their out-of-state vacations.

Making a Great Vacation Even Better

I am in the business of providing wholesale travel packages to the consumer market. I got into this business myself, because I love to travel with my family. Because I am able to save so much money on my own travel, it enables me to take my family on more trips and vacations than I had previously thought I could do.

The one thing I love most about my job is that I can give others the power to do as I do. I set my friend up with a discount condo card package, and now he is able to get his condominium rentals for much less than he was previously able to do. Depending on his trip destinations, he was generally paying 0 to 00 for one week in his choice destination.

When I was able to hook him up with the discount condo card package, he paid one small upfront fee to my company of 0 for the condo card. On one trip, he stayed in a five-star condo resort and was able to get the condo for a week at just about 25% of what it would have cost him to rent it at retail cost. On another trip, he was able to stay in a beachfront condo for one week, and it only cost him the taxes that were due on the condo for his one-week stay, a whopping 9.

All told, my friend has so far taken two one-week vacations, and between plane tickets and condo costs, he has only spent about half of what he spent on his previous trip, the one he took before I set him up to take advantage of the travel packages I sell.

The Greatest Reward

The greatest reward for me in what I do, is knowing how I am able to help people get more out of life for less money than what they would spend on their own, without my help.

In conclusion, let me ask you two very important questions. First, how much did you spend on your last family vacation or weekend getaway? And secondly, how much are you going to have to spend on your next family vacation or weekend getaway?

Sometimes, it can seem like selling a house can be an even delicate game than purchasing one. For the most part, that would be an accurate perception; of how the cruel the world could be, leaving you rotten lucked”. But picking the right Hopatcong real estate agent, a property professional in your corner to help you navigate these uncharted waters, can be a torment in itself. Mistakenly chosen hopatcong real estate agents oftentimes get you 10 times poorer than what you think it was apart from the way the payment should be.

Think about it – how would you go about hiring a real estate agent? Chances are, you would call a couple new friends or perhaps a sibling to find out what kind of experience they’ve had with any real estate agent they might have used at one time or another. Although, varying personal preferences are oftentimes misleading as to how you should chose expert help with regards to big deals such as this.

Take the case of what happened to neighbor of mine in a major city in Ohio. She once hired a good friend of hers to  deal with finding a buyer for her home. She actually felt she was making a reasonable decision in this choice – why would her friend rip her off? The will decided to list her house right away at 0,000. When that didn’t get any bites, she lowered it to 5,000 after a couple weeks. There still were no real offers from serious people. In the end, my neighbor actually sold her house not through any expertise of her real estate agent’s but through sheer dumb luck. A family, visiting friends next door, happened to see the sign on her front yard. After a month later, the deal was finally closed. Now “the friend” that the real estate agent was, she still charged her 6% – thousands of dollars. The real estate agent may be a useful asset when you’re trying to buy or sell a house. They are rarely useful enough to warrant 6%.

Here is what I would recommend you did instead of running to a real estate agent the minute you decide to sell your house. Try an online real estate company such as you might find on FlatFeeListing in your state. They will put your home up for sale in a Multiple Listing Service along with lake Hopatcong homes for sale. At one time, it used to be that these were only accessible to a real estate agent; not anymore. You don’t have to worry anymore about the 6% fee, you only get to have a single payment of 0 plus the buyer’s agent fee of 3%. Not bad at all, isn’t it? You could save a whole lot more. Only remember, you get what you pay for. If you really want to sell your home, pay the fee but get a top flight agent that we recommend. It’s well worth the expense.

If you decide that this is not the way to go for you (especially if the thought of getting all the paperwork through yourself terrifies you), here’s what you need to know to pick the right real estate agent. You can’t just go with a real estate agent because he’s friends with your uncle or something. One good means of picking the right choice of real estate agent is just to drive along the neighborhood streets and check on some of the names appearing on the for sale signs. Try to visit them for evaluation and to check if you are comfortable enough to do business with them. Don’t be fooled by those agents who try to impress you by putting higher quotes on your house. The best way by far, is finding a referal agent that we pick for you who is a proven top-producer.

Before you make your final pick, make sure that your real estate agent has been in the business at least 10 years; ask about their personal purchase or sale records in the business, ask them how their quotes usually compare with the price they usually close at, and of course, ask them for their plan for how they believe they will go about selling your house. Take your time; you’ll probably made the right choice. For a top-flight Lake Hopatcong real estate agent, follow the Hopatcong real estate agent link within this article. If you’re looking to buy or sell Lake Hopatcong homes, from top pre-screened agents, you’ve come to the right place.

Clayton is recognized for its outstanding quality of life. This suburban community provides the best of all worlds. Stately single-family homes, condominiums, apartments, and a vibrant business district offer a variety of living styles.

As one of St Louis’ favorites for Apartment living, Clayton boasts a thriving cultural center, with a downtown business district featuring many art galleries, boutiques, fine restaurants, and European style outdoor cafes.

This chic suburban community with urban flair is located just west of the City of St. Louis and has convenient access to several interstates and major arteries, placing it within minutes of just about anywhere in the region.

The Philip H. Barron Realty Company offers several great places to live in Clayton. From downtown Clayton and the Moorlands to the Demun area, we have 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, as well as studio apartments available for rent.

About Barron

Philip H. Barron Realty is a family-owned real estate investment firm that has been providing outstanding apartment living to the St. Louis area since 1965. Our properties are located in Clayton, University City, Brentwood, the Central West End, and the City of St. Louis.

We have a distinctive position in the St. Louis apartment market because we specialize in renovating vintage apartment buildings from the 1920′s and 1930′s. Our goal is to give new life to buildings that have become physically, and functionally obsolete. We create market rate housing that people want to live in, located in neighborhoods where people want to live. Our focus is to retain the original character of the building, while providing the amenities found in newer construction.