Amidst cut-throat the hospitality vertical of Indian real estate has done well with hotels across the budget segment witnessing upward movement. Track2Realty exp0lores the emerging trends and also addresses the game changers that has influenced in the past and promises to do so in the year ahead.
Hyderabad continues to be a favoured destination for investments due to its unique infrastructure, and real estate prospects are promising despite the Telangana agitation.
During the year 2011 when almost all other matured property market witnessed dip in transaction and price correction was on everyone’s lip, Bangalore registered both healthy transaction as well as upward price movement.
Mumbai continues to be the costliest property market in India but the sales graph show this value has started taking its toll on the volume. Property registration in India’s biggest real estate market continued its slide and in September recorded a 29-month low at 4,137, down 22 per cent year-on-year.
When the Reserve bank of India was announcing the CRR rate cut by 50 base points, the house wife Sugnadha Dubey, glued to TV news channels, couldn’t resist the temptation to call up her husband to know whether the EMI burden on this middle class home owner is going to ease out from next month. With no background of the world of financial jargon, her husband could only assure her with a wishful thinking.
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Gujarat organised a seven-day technical tour for its members in mid-January. The 60-member delegation, that included developers from Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Rajkot, Surat, Palanpur, Navsari, Unjha, Bharuch and other centres, visited Israel, Jordan and Oman.
The Godrej Properties’ Board of Directors has announced Pirojsha Godrej’s appointment as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Godrej Properties Limited (GPL) with effect from April 1st, 2012.
Indian developers will borrow about $1 billion from private equity funds this fiscal year at rates higher than banks, which are cutting loans to builders, Knight Frank assessment suggests.
Cumulative take-up across India‟s seven largest cities increased by a modest 8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2011.
The combined net debt of India’s 11 listed developers rose 15 percent in the 12 months through June to 385 billion rupees, according to Mumbai-based Edelweiss Securities Ltd.