Lumpsum after selling property: parking before reinvestment
Separate tax homework from parking homework
Capital-gains rules, exemptions, and reinvestment timelines for property can be specific and time-bound. This site’s calculators do not complete that tax analysis. Parallel to any CA work, decide where the cash lives for the next three, six, or twelve months so it is available when you need to pay or reinvest.
Match parking to the decision date
If the next flat or bond purchase is likely inside a year, prefer short FDs or other high-liquidity debt parking over an equity lumpsum you might have to sell in a hurry. Use the FD calculator for tenure and interest; use the lumpsum calculator only for money that can truly stay invested for several years at a stated return assumption.
Avoid the idle-savings trap and the FOMO trap
Leaving a crore in a low-interest savings account for eighteen months has a cost. Throwing it all into equity the week after registration because markets “feel fine” is the opposite error. Write a parking end date, review monthly, and move in planned slices—not on tip messages.
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