As the real estate sector in the country stands at a critical juncture, the performance of this sector will be largely governed by the following drivers.
One of the main features of the real estate ecosystem is transparency. However, on the contrary, the market is considered as an information-inefficient market, where seller tends to provide less information to the buyer.
Economic growth and real estate performance are two significantly intertwined characteristics. It is widely accepted fact that demand for real estate space is drawn and influenced from economic environment.
In view of the adverse publicity and shaken customer confidence arising out of significant delays in delivery of projects across the states, there is a strong acceptance of this matter by top management of the developers and investors alike.
Year 2011 was a challenging year for the Indian real estate sector. It was a year which brought to the mainstream need for policy level changes.
Market forces of demand and supply are the most potent determinants of price and the developments in the real estate industry during year 2011 is the latest example.
Through the course of 2010, the realty sector evened out into a level playing field, with enough traction in the market to hold investor interest, with several on-going projects being delivered and others being launched.
For buyers as industry stakeholders, the biggest advantage that the Model Real Estate Regulation Act offers is that there will be an arbitratory body available to attend to grievances and redressals.
India and China have been forever up for comparison in the past. There has been no end to the debates on which of the two economies out-performs the other, and China seems to have emerged as the default favourite for any number of reasons.
If the current economic conditions have proved nothing else, they certainly prove that investment in Indian residential real estate is impossible to write off, ignore or find an alternative to.