Real Estate Doubts

Flats or plots? Please share your inputs! Flats: You save money for a few years and give most away as downpayment. Then for the next decade or more a major chunk of your salary goes towards EMI. By the time you are done with the EMI (10-20 years) the flat is now old, hasn’t appreciated much and selling becomes an issue. Add to it building politics, lack of maintenance in many projects etc. Plot: You buy a villa plot or some 200-400 square yard plot in a developer’s plotting project. After 10-12 years that project might not have taken off as no one really is building a villa there (seen such cases around Hyderabad a lot) and you might not be able to sell it too! Is my understanding wrong? With no ancestral property to rely on I see myself living in rent and although it is relaxing for now, I can do with some guidance on buying a house / land by people who have done it and your views on it?