Browsing: Myth & Reality

Consumer Connect RERA, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, RERA Satisfaction Index, RERA Toothless Body, RERA & Home Buyers, RERA Recovery Certificates, RERA Execution Orders, Advocate Nirmit Srivastav
RERA Satisfaction Index pretty low across India

The home buyers have for long alleged that the RERA has failed to provide them substantial relief in the wake of project delay or defaults. Now the Allahabad High Court has also taken cognizance of the issue and has not only questioned reasons of non-execution but also asked for the roadmap as to how RERA Recovery Certificates would be executed.

Consumer Connect Strategy Trap, Narrative Trap, Real Estate Narrative, Union Budget, Union Budget 2022-23, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman
Has real estate fallen into its own “All is Well” trap?

A TV debate after the Union Budget 2022-23 caught one of the IPCs (Independent Property Consultant) off guard when the anchor categorically blamed him for real estate not getting its due with the budget. In his defence he could only argue that it is not about one specific report but all the industry reports are guilty of creating such a goodwill for the sector. The satisfactory voices were so profound that the policy makers too found the business capable of self-sustaining without any fiscal incentives.

Consumer Connect Real Estate 2022, Property Market 2022, Home Buyers 2022, Housing Market 2022, Real Estate Trends, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News
“What if” buzz word of home buyers in 2022

2022 won’t be an easy year for the average Indian home buyer in terms of making a conscious decision of buying a house. The fundamentals of the market and macroeconomic outlook indicates 2022 could be even more challenging than 2021 for more than one reason. The rising input cost of construction has put a serious question mark over the feasibility of the business in a price sensitive market. Many of the developers with thin profit margins are facing a catch-22 where the input cost hike is compelling for escalation but the demand side is not ready to absorb the hike.

Consumer Connect Myth & Reality of Home Buying, Festive Sales in Housing, Festive Offers in Property Market, Festive Offers in Home Purchase, Festivals and Home Buying
Festive home sales! Reality versus narrative

I often get amused when I get into the details of the industry survey that shouts at the top of its voice – “All is Well”. Some of these industry reports claiming the business to be witness to higher consumer sentiment are based on the feedback of connected parties like developers, banks, financial institutions and private equity players. All in all, it’s a family cycle where everyone is desperate to beg, borrow or steal for sale. The most important stakeholder – the home buyer – whose sentiment is being tracked is better left out in this mutual appreciation club of vested interests. 

Consumer Connect Wish List Fingers Crossed, What Home Buyers Want, What Home Buyers Need, Home Buyers' Wants & Needs, Home Buyers' Grievances, Housing Market After Corona, Post Corona Home Buyers
Home buyers’ wants & needs in housing after Coronavirus

The real estate industry stakeholders are debating over the design changes and other functional changes in the housing projects after Coronavirus. An impression is gaining ground that the developers have the realization that the world has changed due to pandemic and they need to alter to fit into the buyers’ needs. An online poll by Track2Realty nevertheless finds that the industry is off the mark when it comes to read the pulse of the buyers. The buyers are not looking for knee jerk design changes but housing to have long term functional changes.      

Consumer Connect Real Estate Strategy, Real Estate Narrative, False Narrative, Real Estate Communication, Real Estate PR
Narratives that could goad realty to revival

It is easy to criticize the Indian real estate sector for its narrative, or the lack of it. But it takes some thorough understanding of the business, its ROI cycle, its historical legacies and multiple other factors to find method into the madness. We explore how the real estate can create its own effective narrative like some of the other matured industries.

Consumer Connect Monsoon Home Buying, Property Purchase in Monsoon Season, Real Estate Trends, Home Buying Trends, Property Purchase Trends, Festive Home Buying
Why don’t Indians buy houses in monsoons?

There are multiple factors why the home sales in monsoons are subdued. One obvious reason is that the Indians traditionally don’t make any high value purchases after Akshay Tirtiya and before Ganesh Chaturthi. Since a home is the most emotional & aspirational product; is life’s biggest purchase; and is in most of the case for the lifetime; the Indians prefer to wait till the beginning of the festive season. Inauspicious period of Shraddh and Pitripaksh also falls during the monsoon season, where the traditional belief is that any new purchase will invite the curse of the ancestors.

Consumer Connect Home Loan, Cheaper Home Loan, Home Loan Interest Rates, Lower Cost of Borrowing
Can cheaper home loans lead to more housing sale?

With home loan interest rates below 7 per cent, an impression has gained ground that this is the best time to buy a house. Track2Realty takes a closer look at the economic fundamentals that suggest the interest rates are one of the sales catalysts and there are many variables to consider. 

Consumer Connect Realty Stocks
Cost & benefit of real estate, stocks & realty stocks

The Nifty Realty Index that touched a low of 162.13 on 19th May in the post Covid mayhem has now scaled up to 280.00 (First week of December). The BSE and Nifty also surged more than 50% since the March lows, thus making the Indian stock market one of the best performers across the world. India’s only REIT, Embassy Office Park that scaled down at INR 319 is back in the range of 350 with a forecast of crossing 400. The second REIT, Mindspace Business Pak that was over-subscribed 12.96 times in the month of August this year, is also on its growth curve.   

Consumer Connect RERA, Real Estate after RERA, Success of RERA, Failures of RERA, RERA Registered Properties
RERA sees 40% rise in project registrations in a year

After nearly two-and-half years since RERA deployment across the country, the Centre’s aim to enforce it in each state to regulate the Indian real estate sector has picked up momentum. There has been a 40% growth in project registrations under RERA in a year across the country – from around 32,306 projects in end of September 2018 to nearly 45,307 projects as on 5th October 2019.

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