After a sharp recovery in the first one-and-a-half months of the calendar year — the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Realty Index gained over 50 per cent, real estate stocks seem to have lost steam.
News Point: Track2Realty pan-India survey finds that the home buyers’…
Track2Realty Exclusive: An assessment of business confidence index of Pune real estate post the formation of a stable Government at the Centre is not as easy as gauging the mood of the developers across any other city. The precursor to the very assessment is fraught with a question mark that why will the business sentiment change overnight with the change of Government at the Centre.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Highly speculative markets are always highly susceptible to speculation as such markets are mostly sentiment driven. These are the markets where investors are by and large the project riders and hence the movements in the power corridors do affect the market to a great extent. Coimbatore real estate, on the contrary, is a market which has traditionally been neither susceptible to speculation nor the investors have been on prowl.
Track2Realty: Where transparency broadens, real estate capital flows and market change follows. JLL’s eighth Global Real Estate Transparency Index, covering 102 markets worldwide, shows continued progress in the transparency of commercial real estate around the world.
Track2Realty Exclusive: When we conceptualised the idea of having a jury to rate and rank the realty companies, added with our conducting a pan-India survey to understand what shapes the brand perception of real estate companies and how the leading companies fare on the given parameter, we felt something is still missing in our analysis.
As RERA (Real Estate Regulatory Authority) is close to its 7 years of completion, the home buyers across the nation have more to complain than compliment with what was supposed to be a game changer legislation. The buyers rather question as to RERA has been enacted to serve whose purpose. Most of the home buyers across India’s top 10 cities point out that the ground realities have not changed for them. A vast majority of them feel it has opened another window of litigation and thus hurts than helps the buyers. Issues range from lack of transparency to accountability, and existing market realities to consumer interface.
The report highlights a continued uptrend in aggregate demand across the top 13 cities between January and March 2024, registering a robust growth of 6.9% QoQ. Moreover, after a period of relatively subdued supply, there has been a modest 0.9% QoQ increase this quarter. Despite this, the demand continues to outstrip supply, resulting in a 2.9% QoQ increase in residential prices across these 13 cities. Noida (7.4% QoQ), Greater Noida (7.2% QoQ), and Chennai (5.5% QoQ) recorded the highest appreciation in property prices.
The reports of Adani Realty merger with DB Realty has taken market analysts by surprise. According to the sources close to the developments, this is Adani’s bid to get into listed realty companies’ portfolio. However, the larger question that only Adani Realty can answer is that to what extent would the giant carry over the baggage of the tainted DB Realty. The memories of Godrej Properties announcement to join hands and getting market backlash of shareholders are still fresh in public memory. A Track2Realty analysis.
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.