Ravi Sinha: I welcome all the panelists in this roundtable discussion. We are organizing the brain storming session for our inaugural yearly Handbook Focus 2012. This is the second of the series after the 1st discussion in Mumbai on “Funding Gap in Real Estate.”
The Finance Ministry is building safeguards to ensure realty companies do not misuse the external commercial borrowing (ECB) window announced in the Budget by diverting the money.
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.
John Macomber, Senior Lecturer in real estate, Harvard Business School, says, “I am wary of market timing by residential investors. If you need a home and can afford it, buy a home and hold it.”
The anticipated demand is likely to exert an upward pressure on property prices especially in markets like NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore where the demand-supply gap is high.
In the wake of the real estate community under the industry body CREDAI, asking for only self-regulation and no government regulator, the Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath has bluntly refused to heed to any such fancy thoughts.
The long-pending legislation – Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill – that aims to infuse “accountability and transparency” in the realty sector, backed by stringent norms, is out in the public domain.
The much awaited and largely discussed Real Estate (Regulation & Redevelopment) Bill, pending since 2009, is finally been ready and the Government plans to introduce it in the winter session of Parliament after getting Cabinet approval.
Valuation of immovable properties owned under general power of attorney (GPA) might fall by about 20 percent as the Supreme Court has declared the sale of properties through this deed illegal, industry experts said Friday.