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Mothers’ quest for social security catalyst to property buying

Mother’s Day & property market! The topic has been debated the world over and it has mostly revolved around whether a house could be a perfect Mother’s Day gift. Or else whether one should buy a house near mother’s place. However, mother as a factor in the property world is not just confined to a limited scope of her being a recipient or just an emotional comforting factor. In fact, she has always been an influencer and with economic independence is fast emerging as a catalyst to property buying. On this Mother’s Day Track2Realty explores as to how much the mom factor is “the factor” in the property market. 

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Consumer Connect RERA 7 Years, RERA, RERA India, Real Estate Regulator, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, Real Estate Regulation Act, RERA Advantages, RERA Benefits, RERA Failures, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Best Real Estate Website, Best Property Portal, Real Estate Journalists
7 years of RERA; 7 unaddressed questions

It was conceptualised to clean the opaque ecosystem of Indian real estate; was touted to be the biggest reform of the sector; and expected to enhance the home buyers’ confidence index. But seven long years after the enactment of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), it has still not evolved as a stamp of trust for the harassed home buyers. RERA’s tryst with trial & error has not only dented the confidence of the home buyers but also lent credence to the perception that complaint with RERA rather gives an edge to the builders. After all, RERA has been relegated to be the balancing act for both the builder and the buyer. A Track2Realty analysis.

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Consumer Connect RERA Survey, RERA Consumer Satisfaction, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, Real Estate Regulation Act, Benefits of RERA, Advantages of RERA, RERA Failures, 7 Years of RERA, RERA Trial & Error, Indian Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Best Real Estate Website, Best Property Portal, Real Estate Journalist
Home buyers’ satisfaction index still low after 7 years of RERA: Survey

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.

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Consumer Connect Affordable Housing, Low Cost Housing, Affordable Housing Price, Affordable Housing Rent, Affordable Housing GST, Indian Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Best Property Portal, Best Real Estate Website, Ravi Sinha, Real Estate Journalist
How to make housing more affordable?

No one has got a clear answer to the core of the problems and every industry  stakeholder has his own point of view. However, the economies of scale suggests it definitely helps the developers to undertake cost-effective measures since material procurement happens at a group level. This gives large developers an advantage over other smaller developers and projects. Also, the duration of construction has an impact on the cost. The developers must ensure the completion of projects on time, which could help us sell the properties at a faster pace and keep the cost under control. 

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It may not be crashlanding but all’s not well for Indian real estate in 2024

At the beginning of 2024, as the Indian real estate stakeholders (self-styled industry experts within the realty media landscape) are yet again influence peddling their bullish narrative, the reality check by Track2Realty clearly finds that the sales growth post-Covid has neither been broad based nor democratic. Real estate is yet again emerging as a parking lot of big money post the pandemic, as visible with the off-take of luxury & super luxury despite the stagnant job growth and wage growth.

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Consumer Connect Unfair Contract, RERA, Consumer Protection Act, Builder Buyer Agreement, Society Maintenance Agreement, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market
Legal safeguards for home buyers against Unfair Contract

Isn’t it ironic that in a country where the number of unsold housing units is skyrocketing, the business of real estate continues to be a seller’s market? Contrary to the developers’ influence peddling that the housing market is by and large a buyer’s market now, the fact lies that the developers continue to take the buyers for a ride. The developers’ exploitative practices are not limited to the delay of the project, but also default in delivering the promised amenities, and, most glaringly, with one-sided unfair contract. Track2Realty explains the options before the home buyers. 

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Consumer Connect Festive Survey, Festive Home Buying, Festive Property Sale, Festive Property Offers, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Indian Property Market, Track2Realty Survey, Fence Sitting Buyers, Festive Offers
Fence sitting buyers need hand holding this festive season

The quest for property has not subsided among the Indians; nor do they have any doubts over the appreciation potential of real asset. They still consider property the tangible asset class that is less prone to market volatility, compared to stock market and other avenues of investment. However, they need a bit of cushioning this festive season to take a plunge into the property market.

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Consumer Connect Unsold Housing, Housing Demand & Supply, Housing Inventory, Indian Housing Market, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market
Unsold inventory symptoms & not the cause of housing market malaise

Isn’t it ironic that in a country where housing shortage is at the core of policy debates, housing surplus in top Indian cities is juxtaposed to that. As a matter of fact, the reality of unsold housing units poses an even greater degree of imbalance than the housing shortage. But then unsold inventory is a symptom and not the cause of malaise in the housing market of the country. A Track2Realty report.  

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Consumer Connect K Shape Recovery, Real Estate Recovery, Real Estate ROI, Real Estate Returns, Real cEstate Appreciation, Indian Real Estate, Indian Property Market
K-shape real estate recovery – boon or bane?

Post Covid, the Indian real estate is witness to a K-shape recovery where the listed & larger players are increasing their market share at the cost of smaller ones. Prima facie, what sounds like a market-linked reform, have concerns & repercussions that run much deeper. Is the current criterion of assessing a market with fiscal performance justified? Can only a handful of branded developers be the answer to India’s housing woes, questions Track2Realty.   

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Consumer Connect Disclosure Standards, Real Estate Disclosure Standards, Real Estate Due Diligence, Escalation Clause, Price Escalation Clause, Uniform BBA, Builder Buyer Agreement, Advocate Nirmit Srivastav
Trust deficit in absence of disclosure standards & uniform contract

This is not a one-off stray incident of cheating in the housing market in this part of the world. Srikanth had a similar experience with the Gurugram-based developer when he wished to sell out his much-delayed under-construction property due to medical emergency in the family. The developer refused to transfer the property in the name of the new buyer. He instead offered him to buy back the said property at three years old price when Srikanth had booked the apartment. The choice for this harassed home buyer was to either forget about the appreciation or else get into a costly and lengthy litigation.

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