Realty fads for grand luxury properties

[caption id=“attachment_2805630” align=“alignleft” width=“450”]  Image Courtesy - Shutterstock.com[/caption] In today’s realty market, there’s more to a luxury home than good looks and fancy finishes- those are hygiene factors. What sets a high-end home apart are the features on the property that go well beyond mere shelter - wide open spaces, activity centres, coffee shops, libraries, lounge bars, supervised play areas, a super market, a spa, you name it… Leading builders today are vying to outdo each other in offering new and exciting of levels of comfort and luxury in the homes they’re building. Who needs a holiday home when your apartment complex boasts of an 18-hole golf course, an opulent spa, tennis courts, and multi-cuisine restaurant? Every city in India today has one or more of these uber-luxury projects either already open for sale and fully-functional, or underway with interested buyers already lined up. In general, there a few agreed-upon form factors that constitute luxury homes. Large living-spaces with all mod-cons – forget the simple boxy layouts of the lower and mid-range of the spectrum, luxury home are all about large, well-lit spaces that mostly flow into one another. Themed-spaces – luxury homes set themselves apart by coming pre-loaded with an aesthetic- interior finishes by leading designers, exteriors styled along the lines of a Spanish villa, or Moroccan palace. They might orient themselves around one leading feature, say a 9-hole golf course, or a private lake or a sumptuous spa. Smart-homes – owners of today’s luxury residences can expect to control the ambient temperature, review security cameras, adjust lighting and a host of other settings remotely by virtue of more and more builders incorporating smart-home features into their build plans. So it seems like the outlook for luxury housing can only get rosier, so long as there are high net-worth individuals and corporates who are looking to live or invest in the high end of luxury living. Next, we bring you exclusive developers take on luxury living in India. This is a sponsored post.