A real estate agency named after a Bollywood movie:
Excerpts from the website-
Due to better communication options like computer and all now, real estate agents can deal there clients from there home rather then offices.
The work of the agent starts from knowing the preferences of the client to finalisation of the property and handling of keys along with the genuine papers.
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Stephen Malpezzi has a very well-written essay on real estate movies.
It’s a topic that I did not feel up to tackle- preferring instead, to limit the domain to movies concerning real estate agents as opposed to real estate as a whole- that’d definitely include every haunted-house story(my favourite’s La Casa dalle finestre che ridono, or The House with Laughing Windows- my introduction to the genre of giallo, the latter being something that I have maintained a morbid fascination with ever since), the carpet- baggers in ‘Gone With the Wind’(taken up by Malpezzi) as well as stories on every evil real estate developer out there(Fountainhead- or is that about evil architects and Superman’s Lex Luthor?- there’s a precious quotation cited in Malpezzi’s essay:’Stocks may rise and fall. Utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good. But they will always need land, and they will pay through the nose to get it‘. Sure beats Mark Twain’s ‘Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.’) and just about every movie where the house somehow plays a central feature. – I’d start with Mr and Mrs Smith or that cool loft in Hitch(Hollywoodbitchslap says that ‘the loft interiors were shot from real lofts in TriBeCa and SoHo, with spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline’) Malpezzi cites Citizen Kanes’ Xanadu and Akira Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress.
Anyway- do check out Malpezzi’s essay. I found the inclusion of HouseSitter and Beetlejuice to be especially inspired.
August- the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival, typically signals a slow month for property sales in countries like Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Since all the factors signal towards a quiet month(see excerpt from Reuters below),
Hungry Ghost” month deals double blow to Asian business
By Fayen Wong | August 4, 2006
In Singapore, where 75 percent of the population is ethnic Chinese, business associations often run street performances, known as “getai,” to entertain the living and the dead.
Apart from inviting popular singers from overseas to perform, these “getai” shows also include auctions for auspicious items such as oranges, pineapples and charcoal — which are associated with wealth in Chinese, and which are stacked on gold-tinted plates and elaborately wrapped in red ribbons.
this month will be all about getai. From Rosyton Tan’s 881 to the actual shows at your nearest spot of public assembly, the tradition of getai would be a fun distraction in a month otherwise characterised by slow sales and tumbling stock markets.
And since I was recently quoted in a local magazine saying that the job alternatives available to graduates of my batch were : real estate agents, taxi drivers and hawkers, please add getai singer to my list.
Photo below is of the winsome Mindy Ong in a very luxe getai costume. Both photos are from Royston Tan’s blog
The novelty of a Malay getai singer would carry you a long way, no;-)? Consider Meiyang Chang
Have always wondered about what old movies would reveal vis a vis prices:
What ‘Psycho’ can teach you about inflation
The price of cheap motel rooms, new bathrooms and Madison Avenue salaries in old movies are a lot more accurate than you’d think.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – $25 a day plus expenses. That’s what Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) charged to do detective work in 1941’s “The Maltese Falcon.”
Sometimes, money references in classic movies provide the jolt that reminds us of how inflation has changed what we pay for things. After adjusting for inflation, $25 in 1941 is the equivalent of $332 today — a PI today might get between $80 and $125 an hour (or more).
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Mike Myers skillfully exploited the disconnect in the first “Austin Powers” epic. The villain, Dr. Evil, who has just come out of a 30-year deep freeze, is holding the world hostage and demands . . . (portentous music) . . . $1 million dollars to spare it. After some consultation with henchmen, he ups the demand to $100 billion.
Even in 1997 dollars, when the movie was made, a million 1967 dollars only comes to a little under $5 million. Either Dr. Evil was a bit of a piker or the cryogenics had frosted some of his brain cells.
Here is a sampling of some classic movie money moments, complete with a rating of how surprisingly HIGH or LOW they seem from our perspective in 2006
Of Mice and Men: Cheap land?
Some movie prices seem totally divorced from reality. Lenny and George in “Of Mice and Men” are trying to scrape together $600 to buy a rabbit farm in the Salinas Valley. In California today, $600 wouldn’t buy a rabbit hutch.
Rating: LOW. The movie may be set during the Great Depression, but even adjusting for inflation, $600 then is only about $8,500 today. Perhaps Lenny and George were angling for a no-down payment, interest-only mortgage, intending to flip the property in six months.
Psycho: Cheap digs?
In the 1960 Hitchcock opus, “Psycho,” the room rate at the Bates motel is $10 (including a hot shower), which sounds pretty low, but it’s actually the equivalent of $66 today.
Rating: HIGH. Remember, this isn’t the Ritz; it’s a seedy place in the middle of nowhere that the new highway has bypassed, leaving it with no customers. For $66 you can rent a pretty good room in a chain motel and not have to worry about Norman’s mom.
Mr. Blandings builds his nest egg
Few movies spell out prices as completely as “Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House,” the timeless tale of home buyer and home owner angst from 1948 starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. Of course the prices aren’t quite as timeless.
City dwellers Grant and Loy buy a rural Connecticut home on about 35 acres that is in such bad shape, demolition is the only solution. Purchase, demolition and construction ends up costing a total of $38,000 for a home with four beds and three bathrooms — the bathrooms costing $1,300 a piece. That translates into $308,100 total cost in 2006 dollars, with each bathroom going for $10,540.
Rating: Low. Even with all their overspending, the Blandings came out very nicely on their investment. The median price of a four-bed, three-bath home in that part of Connecticut would just over $600,000 today, and that’s with a small lot, not a sprawling 35 acres. The price of the bathroom is spot-on. A bathroom remodeling costs an average of $10,499 today.
Of course, despite Mr. Blandings’ worries during the movie about being stretched financially, he should have been able to handle his spending spree. He was earning $15,000 as a Madison Avenue copywriter. That comes to $121,618 today, (doing far better than Ted Kramer 31 years later). He should have been able to easily handle the $18,000 mortgage identified in the movie, which would have had payments of just over $100 a month, especially if he was able to scrape together the other $20,000 on his own. 
According to growabrain, the list stands as:
Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’
‘American Beauty’,
Tom Hanks’ ‘The Money Pit’ and
Mamet’s ‘Glengarry Glenn Ross’
Photo from imdb.com