Track2Realty Exclusive: Statistics often only tell half the story and in real estate this old adage is all the more true as the figure are often not the facts and ground realities may juxtapose facts with figure. For instance, a perception is gaining ground that Mumbai property has reached beyond its saturation point and the standing inventory of 48 months is being cited as the evidence.
Track2Realty: Buyers remained cautious but searched well for aspirational homes. Developers remained restrained but projects reached completion stages as all segments of the market prepared for a growth phase in Indian property market, aligned to the political optimism in India.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The financial capital of India, Mumbai has always been reflective of the business confidence of the country. It is a market that shows the way forward for the investors in general and India Inc in particular, be it on the Sensex or the real estate market. It is hence assumed that if the confidence index in the city is low, it will have a percolating effect on the rest of the markets across the country.
Track2Realty: Cumulative commercial real estate loans have tripled to reach INR 1.428 billion in the last six years up to November 2013, whereas individual housing loans doubled to reach INR 5.185 billion during the same period.
Track2Realty: Knight Frank India in association with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry today released its second set of findings of the quarterly Real Estate Sentiment Index. The first index that covered Q4 2013 was released in February, 2014.
Track2Realty Exclusive: In the beginning of the year 2013 when the property market in Ahmedabad was softening a bit in select pockets, the prophets of doomsday had a free run. Many of them were prophetic to write off the city’s real estate market as simply unaffordable and unsustainable, notwithstanding the fact that the correction in the city real estate prices has been relatively moderate as compared to other cities with similar trends in property market when the sentiments were at peak.
Track2Realty Exclusive: A Crisil Research report maintains that absorption of new residential units across six key cities is likely to increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 7 per cent in the next two years, with Mumbai registering the highest CAGR of 14 per cent in the next two years due to huge pent-up demand. Meanwhile, the Bangalore realty market is likely to see a stable rise in sales with firms such as Sobha Developers Ltd and Prestige Estates Ltd benefiting.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Nearly Real estate stocks have been on a roller coaster ride for the last few years but 2012-13 has been witness to some stability in the realty index. Critics call it more speculative than any other index as the disconnect between the respective company and its stock has often been devoid of logic.
Track2Realty Survey: 70 per cent of the Indians who have either bought a house or are planning to buy believe brand reputation only amounts to the developers’ past projects. More than that, 78 per cent maintain the track record of timely delivery of the project is the best way to judge the developers’ brand.
Track2Realty: The real estate sector has been hoping against hope that the rates will be marginally cut in order to keep the sentiments bullish. Reports of foreign funds warming up and the substantial contribution of the sector, 6 plus to the Indian GDP was also being seen as an indication of why the policies would be eased.