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Consumer Connect Booming Market, Real Estate Boom, Property Boom, Indian Real Estate News, Property Market News

Is the housing market really booming?

I meet a number of stakeholders across the built environment of Indian real estate. One common narrative that has gained ground within the built environment over the years is that “this is the best time to buy a house.” Mind you! This narrative was being pushed through the throat even before Covid. Even though the real estate market in general and the housing market in particular has been going through a turbulent phase, the narrative has never changed its course.

Headlines China Real Estate, China Property Market, China Property Crisis, Mortgage Ban, Mortgage Boycott, Housing EMI

Does China’s ‘Mortgage Boycott’ have any lessons for India?

Buy a house with mortgage and then get so frustrated with the delays that you just stop paying the EMIs. This sounds funny, illegal and outrageous, but has already started trending in the world’s largest property market of China. The global property markets in general and susceptible markets like India in particular are watching the developments in the neighbourhood with a hope & prayer that such unpleasant events should not confront them. A Track2Realty analysis.

Commercial Demand Drivers of Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Property Market, Retail Spaces, Office Spaces, Commercial Property Investments

Emerging demand drivers of commercial real estate

Real estate in general and its future growth in particular is defined by its demand drivers. It is relatively easier to forecast the demand drivers in the residential sector. Reason being that the economic activities indicate the migration of the workforce and hence inherent need for housing. However, to forecast the emerging economic activity, both sector wise and region wise, is more often than not guesstimate, finds Track2Realty.

Consumer Connect Independence Day, India at 75, Freedom From FSI, FSI, FAR, FSI & Density Norms, FSI Free Cities

Will freedom from FSI lead to affordable housing for all?

Freedom is a luxury and it means different things to different set of people. The stakeholders within the built environment of the Indian real estate too have their own set of definition when it comes to what defines their freedom. While for a home buyer, freedom is to have a rent-free house of one’s own at an affordable price, for the developers the quest has been freedom from multiple bottlenecks – single window clearance, industry status, easy funding and, most importantly, FSI free developments. Track2Realty investigates whether ‘Freedom From FSI’ would be boon or bane. 

Policy Indian Flag, Indian Independence, Independence Day, Freedom At 75, India's Urban Policies, India's Housing Policies, Indian Urbanisation

India’s tryst with urban housing since independence

India’s urban housing today could at best be described as a soda bottle syndrome where the constant rural push to the select few urban centers could explode at any given point of time. It is not that the policy makers are unaware with the growing population and its dependence over the metro cities. As a matter of fact, when the country’s first planned city, Chandigarh, came into existence as a horizontal city that could cater as the capital of both the Punjab and Haryana State, it seemed to be independent India’s first tryst with organized urban planning in general and its housing solution in particular.

Consumer Connect Real Estate Price Escalation, Real Estate Price Hike, Input Cost Hike, Real Estate Caramelisation, Cement Caramelisation, Steel Caramelisation, Raw Material Caramelisation, CREDAI, NAREDCO

Sustaining public posturing on construction halt a tricky affair

Just when the real estate industry bodies had firmed up their public posturing to halt construction with allegation of cartelisation by the cement & steel producers, there was uneasiness at the developers’ end. Many of them had their back of the envelope calculation as to whether the construction strike would actually help or hurt the business. Track2Realty tries to get into the depth of the issue.

Policy Union Budget 2022-23, Budget & Real Estate, Budget & Property Market, Budget & Housing, Budget & Home Buyers, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Budget 2022-23: Unanswered questions for real estate

The Union Budget 2022-23 lacked any fresh ideas as far as the real estate in general and the housing market in particular is concerned. Most of the announcements are more or less the extension of the old schemes and roadmaps. The euphoria of the industry stakeholders ahead of the budget turned into a deafening silence in the next few hours of budget speech.

Advocacy Union Budget 2022-23, Budget & Real Estate, Budget & Property Market, Budget & Home Buyers, Budget Wish List, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Budget 2022 lacked fresh ideas; “U Turn” by realty players

Tracking the sentiment is not that easy in the business of Indian real estate. There is no ideal predictive model that could assess the sentiments of both the developers as well as the buyers. The leading voices of the sector has never been very consistent with their budget wish list and the post budget customary note. The most important stakeholders, the home buyers, are more often than not completely ignored when it comes to sentiment assessment post the Union Budget.

Policy Union Budget 2022, Budget and Real Estate, Real Estate Budget Wish List, Home Buyers' Budget Wish List, Budget and Housing

Can Budget 2022-23 address home buyers’ job insecurity issues?

The industry data of faster recovery and record home sales conceal more than it intends to reveal. The rosy outlook fails to address the fact that this is a K-shaped recovery where a handful of large developers with sound financials have grown at the cost of the large universe of the developers. More importantly, the sales registration data doesn’t differentiate between primary market sale and distress sale in the secondary market.

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