Organized retail real estate 2011-2012 – An industry viewpoint
Judging by feedback obtained from a cross-section of Indian retail players, it emerges that most retailers perceived 2011 to be a flat year.
Judging by feedback obtained from a cross-section of Indian retail players, it emerges that most retailers perceived 2011 to be a flat year.
Once a happy hunting ground, real estate sector has suddenly woken up to the reality that raising money through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) is getting harder with investors being lot more discerning today.
Fitch Ratings’ outlook for 2012 for the Indian real estate sector is negative due to weak overall demand and higher construction costs, which are likely to continue to squeeze margins.
Shobhit Agarwal, Jt. Managing Director – Capital Markets, Jones Lang LaSalle India, believes market may be sluggish at the moment, but eventually India stands as a destination for investment.
The Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) has claimed that the three-day India Realty Show 2012 organised at Dubai over the last week-end has evoked an enthusiastic response from among serious property buyers.
With the market set to bottom by out by the second quarter of 2012, we will see the beginning of a recovery in the city’s residential real estate fortunes by the second half of the year.
The much anticipated opening up of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail has renewed interest of several large international retailers in Indian retail market.
In all markets around the globe, challenging market conditions – whilst painful at the time – do have a beneficial long-term impact on the market in that they sort out the ‘wheat from the chaff’.
Regulation is required for any industry to function properly and the real estate industry is no exception. The market is being manipulated by the big and influential real estate lobby causing large inequities in resource and product allocation.
The Indian real estate sector has grown rapidly over the last few years, with its stakeholder profile evolving from locally-focused, privately-owned enterprises to increasingly corporatized, professional organizations funded with public capital and having multiple market and product strategies.