We feel an undying love for home ownership and this has made us the country with the maximum percentage of home owners. But I feel our love for brick and mortar goes further than this. It is not just home ownership but investment in property, too, which gets a lot of attention from our side. So, the first time we have enough cash to spare or we have saved enough equity, we take the property market plunge as investors.

While there is no denying the potential of the real estate sector, traps and pitfalls at various stages make the property market game a wee bit difficult for novices. Even seasoned players fail to get it right all the time. This can be put down to variety of hurdles- psychological and real. Within the ambit of this article, let us take up a few of these.