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Real estate accepts reality of declining sales & high prices in 2025

After influence peddling with a false narrative of ‘All is Well’ for so long the built environment of Indian real estate has finally conceded to the reality of headwinds. At the beginning of the yeart 2025 a section of stakeholders are accepting for the first time that declining home sales and high prices are going to hurt in the year ahead. However, they are yet to come to terms with their own faultlines. Track2Realty questions whether talking about the need to lower home loan interest rates and some concessions with the upcoming Union Budget is going to make any tangible difference.

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Is there any regulatory framework for property YouTube influencers?

The news of SEBI crackdown on YouTuber Ravindra Balu Bharti for illegal investment advisory services has come as a reality check for many influencers. These influencers are offering unregistered and more often than not paid investment advice by the vested parties. But financial influencers or Finfluencers, as they say, are not the only influence peddlers that need to be checked. The property influencers, or Propinfluencers, are even greater threat. After all, one invests in stock market with surplus money where amount is much lesser than one’s investment in property that is life’s costliest purchase and mostly with borrowed money. Ravi Sinha questions why there is no regulatory framework for property influencers.

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Consultants for ornamental value to India’s Housing Ministry?

Are you aware that the Housing Ministry of the Government of India is spending an exorbitant amount of money for your welfare? You may be having many grievances with the ways & means of Indian housing and urban development; how they fail to address the core issues. But when you get to know that the Government of India has many white elephants employed with the ministry at the cost of tax payers’ money, it only adds insult to your injury. After all, PPT presentations and high-flying proposals on paper is not going to change anything for a common man.  

Headlines Real Estate Outlook 2025, Real Estate Forecast 2025, Home Buyers in 2025, Property Market in 2025, Home Buyers' Survey, Home Buyers' Outlook, Housing market Affordability in 2025, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Best Property Portal, Best Real Estate News Website, Real Estate Journalist, Property Journalist
Affordability curve tilted against home buyers in 2025

On a scale of 0-100, the Housing Sentiment Index has been noted to be just 18; with 82% Indians categorically believing that housing is just not affordable to them. A vast majority of them, as many as 80%, believe it would take no less than 10 years of their gross income to afford a house in any of the leading Indian cities. The global benchmark is 5 years of gross income with not more than 40% of take-home salary. But 78% Indians believe it would take no less than 60% take home salary to buy a house in India.

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Questions that will define Indian real estate in 2025

The outlook of the Indian real estate on the eve of 2025 could confuse any neutral analyst. But for the insider analysts who are actually stakeholder-cum-expert, it is like another new year with hopes and promises galore. The stakeholders are so upbeat that all the industry reports are projecting a bullish upcycle to continue for the next few years, thus taking Indian real estate to a valuation of $10 trillion by 2047. Track2Realty finds that the ground reality for a commo0n man looking for a house in his affordable budget stands in contrast.

Headlines Misleading Real Estate Ads, Misleading Property Ads, ASCI, Advertising Standards Council of India, Property Frauds, 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, Exploitative Property Ads
Why ASCI red flags misleading ads with real estate?

Real estate advertisements are most exploitative, says  ASCI. In its “Half-Yearly Complaints Report 2024-25”, the self-regulatory body ASCI (Advertising Standards Council of India) said that of all the 3031 ads investigated, around 34% were from the real estate sector alone.  It was followed by 29% ads from illegal betting and 8% from the healthcare sector. Track2Realty is conscious of the fact that the builders would challenge this allegation tooth & nail. The developers that we have spoken to have either denied existence of such practices or have even questioned the legitimacy of ASCI. 

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Long & lengthy litigation helps builders to define law as per their fancy

Despite several rulings defining the set principles of law, the builders continue to define law as per their fancy. After all they are fully conscious of the fact that the poor home buyers have limited resources to get into lengthy and costly litigation. The omissions by the lower courts more often than not emboldens these builders.  Ravi Sinha reports about another landmark ruling by the apex consumer court, NCDRC (National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission).

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Diwali 2024 over and so is optimism of Indian real estate

How was the festive season for property market this year? The answer depends upon whom are you addressing the question. For the large universe of the developers, it was worse festive season in the last 5-7 years. But for a few select listed developers, the fortunes are different. The ground reality of the market is that Diwali fireworks was definitely missing for Indian real in 2024, despite over optimism and influence peddling ahead of the festive season. Track2Realty analysis.

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US Housing Market slowdown a worry for India?

The report of an impending housing recession in the US housing market is a worrying factor for a section of analysts in India. As per the reports coming out of the US market, the pricing remains firm but the sales have slowed down. As per a report by the NAR (National Association of Realtors), the home sales have slowed down for six consecutive months in July. Track2Realty reports.

Headlines Construction Workers, May Day, International Labour Day, Labour Shortage, Labour Crisis, Labour Wages, Cost of Labour, Masonry, Carpenters
Will Labour Day be any different this year?

Shankar Mishra is a masonry worker at a construction site in Bengaluru. During the peak of the Covid-19, he was one among the thousands of workers who had no other option but to reverse migrate facing all odds. He thought at that point of time that his career as a mason worker was over. However, he had the surprise of his lifetime when the developer’s construction manager called him back and even offered to send a flight ticket for the same. Track2Realty traces the labour condition post the pandemic.

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