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Finance Under Construction Property, Ready to Move Property, Property Price Index, Property Price Trends, Property Acquisition Cost, Home Buying Cost, Home Prices in India, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property News, Best Property Portal, Best Real Estate News Website, Real Estate Journalist, Property Journalist
How Under Construction apartments cost you more than Ready to Move?

When I said it in one of the podcasts that it is better to buy a Ready to Move apartment as it is never a costly proposition, as perceived by the home buyers at large. Compared to Under Construction, a Ready to Move apartment is loaded with execution assurance, peace of mind, and almost no additional financial burden. Ever since that I was flooded with very many queries to elaborate on the same. The questions are being raised by not just the critics within the built environment of Indian real estate this time who love to hate my critical take on the sector. A number of concerned home buyers too asked me in the comment section of the podcast to delve deeper for their better understanding. 

Finance Union Budget 2025, Budet and Real Estate, Real Estate Budget Wish List, Real Estate Budget Demands, Real Estate Budget Reactions, India Real Estate news, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Real Estate Journalists, Property Journalists
Has real estate sector got its due with Union Budget 2025-26?

More than 200 press releases in my mailbox; and all are glorifying the Union Budget 2025-26. This raises more questions than addressing any of the concerns of the Indian real estate. Has real estate sector finally got its due with the Union Budget 2025-26? Why are the stakeholders so upbeat with the Union Budget that has by and large ignored the wish list of the sector? Aren’t these industry voices taking “U-Turn” in pre & post budget overtones?

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Union Budget 2025 aimed at headline management & garnering likes

The Union Budget 2025, ahead of a few significant Assembly Elections, quite obviously aimed at headline management & garnering likes. And to a large extent the Finance Minister & Modi Government succeeded in this, since the most vocal middle class of India finally got something to cheer about. However, the larger issue is whether the Personal Income Tax exemption level up to an income of INR 12 lakh going to change the household realities of the shrinking middle class of India. More importantly, will it lead to consumption and asset creation, and that too of a high value asset like real estate.

Finance Realty Stocks, Real Estate Stocks, Real Estate Shares, Nifty Realty, Sensex Realty, Nifty Realty Index
Intrinsic value of a real estate stock subject to interpretation

There is no denying that the real estate stocks have always been high in demand for investors. After all, in a housing deficient country like India it has to constantly grow. Isn’t it? However, what is often intriguing is that some of the real estate stocks have much higher price point, compared to the industry peers with similar fundamentals, including the EPS and PE ratio. This raises a fundamental question as to what determines the price of the real estate stocks.

Finance Union. Budget, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, Realty & Budget, Budget Wish List, Budget Expectations
Realty stakeholders hail Union Budget despite unmet expectations

The Union Budget 2023-24 has by and large ignored the long standing and some immediate concerns (even needs than wants) of the Indian real estate sector. The Finance Minister has not only ignored the supply side of the business, but also didn’t bother to address the demand side, that is the home buyers. Ironically, the leading voices of the sector are still happy with some of the intangible gains even though tangible benefits are non-existent. 

Finance Union Budget 2023-24, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, Budget & Real Estate, Budget for Home Buyers, Budget Wish List
Union Budget 2023-24 disappoints real estate

The Union Budget 2023-24 has offered more intangible benefits than tangible gains for the real estate sector. It is hence no surprise that while the average home buyers got busy in their tax calculations immediately after the Finance Minister’s budget speech, the industry stakeholders have by and large given a thumbs up to the budget. A Track2Realty report.

Finance Union Budget 2022-23, Union Budget, Budget Wish List, Real Estate Budget Wish List, Budget & Real Estate, Aditya Kushwaha, Axis Ecorp, Pradeep Agrawal, Signature Global, Amit Goenka, Nisus Finance
Sector parroting old demands; Union Budget expected to make political statement

The Union Budget this time would be the last full budget ahead of the General Elections due next year. The real estate sector is yet again parroting the old demands, with the only difference being that the concerns of the home buyers too finds a place in their wish list. The developers have come to realise that the home buyers can no longer be ignored as they are the most necessary in the real estate business cycle.

Finance GST Tax, GST Real Estate, India Real Estate News, Indian Property News, Real Estate Taxes, Under Construction GST
GST to dampen rental housing market

Ramneek Patel, an MNC executive in Gurugram is on a company leased accommodation and the HR is deducting INR 40,000 per month for his rented apartment. Now that the Goods & Service Tax (GST) has been imposed for rental residential units to companies, he has been told by the company that the said liability will be passed on to the employees living in company leased apartments. They can otherwise find an apartment on their own.

Finance Home Buying, Client Conversion in Housing, Footfall in Housing, Home Buying in India, Amit Modi, JC Sharma, Subhankar Mitra
Client conversion rate of builders improved post Covid

While the pandemic Covid-19 had hovered like a black swan for the economy in general and the real estate market in particular, the developers across the country also woke up to the unexpected but pleasant reality that the client conversion rate had improved post the pandemic. A Track2Realty analysis.

Finance K Shape Recovery, Real Estate Recovery, Real Estate Recovery After Covid, Real Estate Post Covid
Indian real estate heading to K-Shape recovery

The economists and the real estate analysts are unanimous over the inevitability of the real estate recovery in India. What is nevertheless being debated is when will the sector revive to its normal course of business. What is even more important is to assess what would be the shape of the recovery. In classical economic definition, three of the commonly used recovery shapes are V, U & L shapes. V-Shaped is a strong recovery after the debacle, U-Shaped is a slower and long-drawn recovery, while an L-Shaped aftermath is where the previous peak is not recovered.

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