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Headlines Festivals, Festival Buying, Property Festival Sales, Festival Property Buying, Property Sales Offers, Indian Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Indian Property Market
Optimism on the surface this festive season eve

Indian real estate has historically been very optimistic on the eve of every festive season. The post festive season sales number may not back the pre-festive bullishness, but the sector has been known to be hoping to make merry year after year. After all, real estate is a sentiment driven business and the stakeholders try best to create an ambience of positivity to bring the fence sitting buyers back to the market, often with festive discounts and freebies.

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Headlines Cost Escalation, Real Estate Input Cost, Real Estate Returns, Home Price Hike, Quality of Housing, Indian Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Indian Property Market
Indian developers’ catch 22 with compromise quality or escalate cost

The input cost escalation has indeed brought the catch 22 situation for the real estate developers in this part of the world. As per the industry estimates, the input cost of various construction raw materials has surged from 20-35 per cent in the last 12-18 months. The property prices in the proportional ratio have not increased and in most of the micro markets across India the prices during the said period are at a standstill.

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Headlines Real Estate 2023, Property Market 2023, Real Estate Prediction, Real Estate Forecast, Real Estate in 2023
An year of misplaced optimism ahead?

Ever since the beginning of the year 2023, the real estate industry stakeholders are going gaga with the narrative of a turnaround year. It is not that such misplaced optimism has not hurt their cause in the past, but the leading voices of the sector seem to believe that a false narrative would goad the home buyers to make a beeline at the sales office. The industry narrative is hence tilted towards what could easily be vouchsafed as misplaced optimism.

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Headlines Real Estate in 2021, Real Estate in Tier II & III Cities, Property Market in Covid Times, Price Crash After Covid, Work From Home, Holiday Homes After Corona
Will Covid-hit 2021 lead real estate into Tier II cities?

The cost of doing business per square feet has always been challenging in the top 10 cities of India. The ever increasing migration for jobs in these cities have made the housing affordability even bigger challenge. Critics are not cynical when they question as to what extent and till when these cities will continue to be filled up like a soda bottle. Aren’t our metro cities on the verge of a population blast? Come 2021 and Track2Realty analysis believes the infamous Coronavirus in a strange way has shown the way forward.

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Column Dinesh Semwal, Ensaviour Technologies
A healthy indoor climate & remote operation for efficient facility management

Worsening the situation at a frightful angle is the global pandemic attack, which led governments to struggle with the new lockdown measures and brought big shifts in the stock markets. Its aftermath will be one of the biggest business challenges of our time – “will employees re-enter the office space?” Workers are concerned about the disinfection strategies being used by commercial complexes.

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Headlines Senior Care, Senior Living, Senior Housing, Assisted Living, Ashiana Housing, ASLI, Ankur Gupta
3rd ASLI Annual Senior Care Conclave to roll out Standards and Accreditation Matrix for Senior Care in India

The 3rd ASLI Annual Senior Care Conclave starting, 22nd Jan, 2021, announced the Association of Senior Living India (ASLI) collaboration with Standards Wise International’s Indian subsidiary – Standards Wise International India (SWII) and CommonAge (CA) to roll out the first-ever standards and accreditation matrix for the private sector in the space of senior living and care communities in India.

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Headlines Positives of 2020
Silver lining of 2020 for Indian real estate

Beyond the pessimism & optimism and, to some extent, more than expected recovery post the Covid-19 lockdown, the fact remains that 2020 has been by and large the most unforgettable year for the economy in general and the real estate market in particular. The old timers in the business even maintain that this has been even worse year than the global economic collapse after the Lehman crisis in 2008.

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Headlines Real Estate 2021
Catalysts of real(ty) change in 2021

Ever since the lockdown was imposed in March 2020 with Coronavirus scare at its peak, it seems the built environment of the Indian real estate is experiencing the Placebo Effect. The Placebo Effect is when an improvement is observed, despite an individual receiving a placebo as opposed to active medical treatment. In medical fraternity, it is estimated that 1 in 3 people experience the placebo effect. It seems every stakeholder, barring the home buyers, is experiencing the Placebo Effect in the property market.  

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Headlines Review of 2019, Real Estate in 2019, Property Market in 2019, Real Estate Forecast in 2020, Property Market Forecast in 2020, Indian Real Estate Analysis
Is Indian real estate ready to learn the lessons of 2019?

Beyond inventory statistics, and the customary positive outlook for the year ahead, 2019 has yet again underlined the need to read the pulse of the market dispassionately to learn why the tide has been going against. The lessons are equally true for both the builders and the buyers. Unfortunately, the sector does not seem to learn the lessons yet again. The testimony of the developers’ defiance is their guarded optimism for the year ahead, while dismissing the 2019 as yet another challenging year that has gone by.

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Headlines Real Estate Deals, Real Estate Discounts & Freebies, Real Estate Festive Offers, Festive Deals in Housing Market
The ‘real’ deal in festive season 2019

The festive season has traditionally been an active period for real estate sales as many buyers consider Navratri and Diwali an auspicious time to buy property. Like in previous years, developers this year have sweetened property deals – some up-front discounts, or more commonly 0% GST (which is in any case not charged on ready-to-move properties), waived stamp duty and registration charges, free reserved car parking, modular kitchens, etc.

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