Track2Realty: With BJP controlling the Centre and the two biggest real estate markets in India – Mumbai and Gurgaon – the government has to focus on 3 I’s – Infrastructure, Interest reduction and Income generation. With the BJP’s remarkable show in Maharashtra, the state will give a new lease of life to its infrastructure projects across all sectors.
Track2Realty: The month of October saw the government easing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms to boost India’s construction sector. The announcement is expected to widen the sector’s investor-base by allowing FDI in smaller projects of 20,000 sq. m. instead of 50,000 sq. m. from firms with capitalization of US$5 million instead of US$10 million.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield in their latest research on the residential markets of India have reported a drop in total residential units launched in 3Q 2014 (July – Sept.) of approximately 21% as compared to same time last year.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The home buyers’ have often been complaining about the lack of choice in the property market. It is not only the demand and supply gap that has been cribbed about, rather in the available segment also the available options have been few and far between.
Track2Realty: In a land-locked city like Pune, the importance of water is inescapable. Even at a national and global level, climactic changes as well as other factors are causing water levels to decrease.
Track2Realty Exclusive: To say that the home buyers are coming back to the Mumbai market during the festival season would be stating the obvious. The sentiments driven real estate purchase is already visible with the reported marginal price appreciation of residential real estate across the city. The reports of price appreciation do not just reflect the price trend of the city property market; it does indicate a much larger picture where the recovery of economy and sentiments are all driving the market simultaneously.
Track2Realty: A few years back, Hyderabad was offering the likes of Bangalore stiff competition for attracting office space investments. Today, the formation of a new state, a new government and a stabilized political environment are yet to instill the confidence that is needed to revive Hyderabad’s real estate fortunes.
Track2Realty: The Oxford of the East title is commonly used in context with Pune because of the number of reputed schools, colleges and management institutions in the city. Apart from the real estate spaces required for the many educational institutions seeking to make an entry or to expand in Pune, this fact has also served to drive demand for residential real estate.
Track2Realty: Neemrana is one of the fastest growing industrial centres in North India. This area is advantageously located on NH-8 in proximity to other industrial sub-markets such as Bhiwadi, Bawal, Khushkhera and Tapukhera. Situated in Rajasthan and part of Delhi NCR, Neemrana has attracted a lot of heavy industrial investments from Japanese manufacturing firms such as Nippon, Daikin, Nissan, NYK Logistics and Mitsui Chemicals.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Noida real estate market seems to be marching ahead of the ‘built to suffice’ format and the discerning buyers in this part of the world are increasingly leading the developers to customise the projects and even the individual apartments as per their needs and fancy. What has been the prerogative of only the handful of the buyers in the luxury segment is today a reality across the residential segments of Noida market.