Track2Realty Exclusive: The Umeda Exit of the Ikeda Route of the Hanshin Expressway system passes through this building. The expressway is the tenant of these floors. The elevator doesn’t stop on floor 5th-7th; floor 4 being followed by floor 8. These floors consist of elevators, stairways, machinery and other stuff.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Knight Frank report says with demand likely to remain subdued as the market continues to bottom out in the backdrop of a sluggish economy, a more pronounced rationalisation of prices is warranted in 2013.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The costliest property market of the country, Mumbai has for long defied all the conventional wisdom of economics of demand and supply. It has been a market where a substantial dip in demand had no co-relation with the skyrocketing of prices.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Come budget and the real estate in the last few years seems to have been repeating the rhetoric of industry status. As a result, year after year it has been a case of realty proposes and the Finance Minister disposes. However, the sector on the eve of 2013-14 makes a strategic shift to be more realistic with its causes and concerns.
Track2Realty Exclusive Yearly Analysis: India has led the list of top-performing housing markets globally with a 284 per cent real rise in prices since 2001, which is equivalent to an average annual rise of 14 per cent, according to the Lloyds TSB International Global Housing Market Review.
Track2Realty Exclusive Yearly Analysis: Some analysts believe the economy of the scale in the business is helping the developers to hold the stock. They maintain the developer does not put in his own money in financing a project. Even though the cost of land in cities like Mumbai and Delhi accounts for 70-80 percent of the construction cost, at least 50 per cent of the projects are in joint venture with the land owner.
Track2Realty Exclusive Yearly Analysis: Real estate prices have stayed stagnant in 2012 in Mumbai with a mere 0.3 per cent increase in rates, a research report by Knight Frank says. Figure show that real estate sales have been falling by around 25 per cent year after year since 2010 because of high prices.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Some analysts maintain that the government needs to understand that in order to meet the infra needs we are left with no option but to transform the city.
Track2Realty Exclusive-Yearly Analysis: Indian real estate companies are reeling under the burden of debt, so much so that the excess cash that they had borrowed has become a liability that they want to get rid of but are unable to relieve themselves due to various factors beyond their control. They are nonetheless trying all possible measures, from selling land bank to restructuring their portfolio. Track2Realty tries to assess the seriousness of the situation where many of the realtors are caught between the distress sale and the debt trap.
Track2Realty: The real estate sector will continue to remain an attractive investment destination with the possibility of prices in residential areas appreciating by 91 to 145 percent in select cities over the next five years, a survey released on Tuesday, Nov 20, said.