Browsing: Investigation

Headlines China Real Estate, China Property Market, China Property Crisis, Mortgage Ban, Mortgage Boycott, Housing EMI
Does China’s ‘Mortgage Boycott’ have any lessons for India?

Buy a house with mortgage and then get so frustrated with the delays that you just stop paying the EMIs. This sounds funny, illegal and outrageous, but has already started trending in the world’s largest property market of China. The global property markets in general and susceptible markets like India in particular are watching the developments in the neighbourhood with a hope & prayer that such unpleasant events should not confront them. A Track2Realty analysis.

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Headlines Real Estate in 2022, 2021 Indian Real Estate, Property Market Yearly Forecast, Future of Indian Real Estate
2022 to be year of top realty brands at the cost of smaller developers

2021 was expected to be the year of recovery for the Indian real estate that weathered the black swan of Covid in the preceding year.  Throughout the year the developers put up a brave face and the industry data of the top listed developers was enough to keep the prophets of doomsday in silence. However, the closer look at the sector and the large universe of the developers raises more questions than what it could answer during the turbulent year. Track2Realty looks in to look ahead.

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Headlines Real Estate Winners & Losers, Winners & Losers Post Covid, Covid Impact on Real Estate, Covid Impact on Property Prices
Real estate winners & losers post Covid

When it comes to the recovery of the asset class, the market doesn’t spread its gift with equal generosity. The historic high growth curve of the stock market post Covid crash in March 2020 didn’t make every company’s share valuable. Similarly, in real estate there are certainly some clear winners & losers during the pandemic, finds Track2Realty analysis.

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Headlines Festive Home Sales, Festive Property Sales, Housing Sales in Diwali, Property Market on Diwali
Catalysts of real(ty) optimism on festive season

Will the festive season of 2021 change the course of real estate is something that most of the analysts are curious to see. The festive season has just started and it is too early to guesstimate the exact sales volume & value growth at this point of time. But with a closer look at the Indian housing market one can probably vouchsafe that there are more catalysts of optimism than pessimism. How far this optimism is sentiment driven and to what extent the economic fundamentals support the business take-up is something that needs to be evaluated.

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Headlines China Evergrande Group, China Real Estate, Investment in China Property, Real Estate Defaults, Debt Liability of Real Estate
China’s Evergande both a learning & potential disruption for Indian real estate?

It is the story of a debt ridden real estate company that is financially overleveraged; gone beyond execution capabilities; has multi-city penetration; is into multiple businesses; and the promoters are just delaying the inevitable. The developer that you instantly recall is China’s Evergrande. It’s the talk of the town across the built environment of global real estate today. But wait! Has India not been witness to its own Evergrande moment (though on a smaller scale) in the past? Track2Realty speaks to cross section of industry analysts.

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Headlines Construction Labour, Labour Shortage, Labour Migration, Reverse Migration, Indian Real Estate, Indian Property Market
Reverse Migration: Tier II & III city property gaining by default

What is icing on the cake for the developers in these smaller towns now is the fact that they are getting the labour force at a much lower cost. Explaining this trend, Sandeep Agrawal, a property broker in Patna says that the labours were getting their daily wages in the Delhi NCR region in the range of INR 350-500, depending upon the project. But now they are more than willing to work at INR 250 in places like Patna, Kanpur, Kochi etc where they are stationed in proximity to their home towns and the cost of living is much lesser, compared to the metro cities. 

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Headlines Housing Recovery, Indian Real Estate Revival, Indian Real Estate Survival, Indian Real Estate After Covid, Covid Impact on Real Estate
Indian real estate recovery timelines & catalysts not uniform

Across the built environment of the Indian real estate the two question that are on everyone’s lips is about the recovery timelines and segment to recover first. Track2Realty finds this uncertainty about the possible recovery, or rather the lack of it, has also kept the fence sitting home buyers on the edge.

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Headlines Land Records, Digitisation of Land Records, Clear Land Titles, Land Survey, Property Valuation
Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha top digitisation of land records

Access to land is a critical factor for economic growth and poverty reduction.  For government, industry, and citizens to be able to use this asset effectively and to minimise disputes, it is important to have access to reliable land and property records. Digitizing these land records is critical for ensuring India’s economic growth, as accessible, high quality records not only helps increase the visibility and availability of land for large-scale investment opportunities, but at an individual level, also makes it possible for the public to transact land and use it for seeking credit in a dispute-free environment.

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Headlines Real Estate Cost & Benefit Analysis
Will Covid learning goad the sector to right strategy?

There is no denying that the world has changed for the real estate in this part of the market. Of course, there are acceptances with degree varying, denials and even reluctance to adapt to the new normal. However, what can’t be argued is the fact that the market forces are clearly signaling the paradigm shift from the existing denial & resistance to change.

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