The months before the festive season are generally lull for the property market. Indians are mentally wired to buy the high valuables on the auspicious dates during the festivals. However, this seems to be changing in the property market this time around, as economic rationale indicates preference over religious beliefs. The vast majority of the home buyers anticipate price appreciation during the festive season.
The report of an impending housing recession in the US housing market is a worrying factor for a section of analysts in India. As per the reports coming out of the US market, the pricing remains firm but the sales have slowed down. As per a report by the NAR (National Association of Realtors), the home sales have slowed down for six consecutive months in July. Track2Realty reports.
This is not a one-off stray incident of cheating in the housing market in this part of the world. Srikanth had a similar experience with the Gurugram-based developer when he wished to sell out his much-delayed under-construction property due to medical emergency in the family. The developer refused to transfer the property in the name of the new buyer. He instead offered him to buy back the said property at three years old price when Srikanth had booked the apartment. The choice for this harassed home buyer was to either forget about the appreciation or else get into a costly and lengthy litigation.
Provident Housing has garnered massive interest for its latest project, Provident Ecopolitan located in Aerospace Park in North Bengaluru. An overwhelming number of Expressions of Interest (EoIs) have been recorded ahead of the project launch on August 19, 2023. Ecopolitan has a total of 956 apartments in 1, 2 and 3 BHK configurations ranging from 625 sq. ft. to 1,427 sq. ft. with more than 60% lung spaces.
Prestige Group has emerged as the new Brand Leader of Indian real estate. The brand had continuously been closer to the Leadership and among the Top 3 National Brands. Brigade Group makes a giant leap and jumps from Number 5 to now the 2nd Best Brand of the business. DLF is continuously scaling up and now rests as 3rd Best Brand at the National level. Godrej Properties is losing its sheen as a Valuable Brand and slips down to Number 5 from Number 2 this fiscal year. Puravankara is also proving to be the Dark Horse of the National Brand Leadership and emerges from Number 7 to now at Number 5.
Shankar Mishra is a masonry worker at a construction site in Bengaluru. During the peak of the Covid-19, he was one among the thousands of workers who had no other option but to reverse migrate facing all odds. He thought at that point of time that his career as a mason worker was over. However, he had the surprise of his lifetime when the developer’s construction manager called him back and even offered to send a flight ticket for the same. Track2Realty traces the labour condition post the pandemic.
Puravankara Limited (BSE: 532891) has achieved the highest ever annual and quarterly sales of any financial year since inception by clocking INR 1,007 crore in sale value in Q4 and a total of INR 3,107 crore for FY23, the company announced today, April 12, in its operational update.
With the Maharashtra Government indicating to introduce Blockchain in property transactions, this new technology is in the spotlight. There are more questions in the public domain than answers as subject matter experts are few. In an exclusive interview with Ravi Sinha, Tushar Shrivastava, Co-founder & CTO, PropertyPistol.com decodes how Blockchain is the future of real estate transactions.
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.
On Puravankara’s future plans he said, “We will continue to work towards expanding our market share,and we are excited to announce that in Q3FY23 the group has achieved increased revenue from projects by 77%, increased collection from operations by 87% from construction and delivery against the similar quarter in the previous year. This is supported by increased sales and new launches of over 4.11 msft in 9MFY23 with the last quarter of the current financial year adding another 2.17 msft. Our per Sq. Ft. of debt on under construction area has reduced by 49% from INR 2,524 to INR 1,291 over the last four years.