Mumbai continues to be the costliest property market in India but the sales graph show this value has started taking its toll on the volume. Property registration in India’s biggest real estate market continued its slide and in September recorded a 29-month low at 4,137, down 22 per cent year-on-year.
In an effort to enhance professionalism in the industry, RICS has launched its Red Book of Valuation Standards and Global real estate agency and brokerage standards at the recently concluded real estate conference in Mumbai.
Come budget and the real estate sector, like any other industry, comes out with its own wish list. Unfortunately, while other organised industry get a patient hearing through their industry bodies, the Finance minister seem to be hardly entertaining the sector representatives till recently.
India is the ninth largest construction market in the world according to a Global Construction 2020 report by Oxford Economics. Growing at an estimated cumulative annual growth rate of 8.9%, it is expected to become the third largest market by 2020 and is globally acknowledged as an extremely lucrative business opportunity.
Phoenix has recently also sold 80 per cent of office properties in its mixed-use Market City projects in Kurla in Mumbai and Pune, respectively. It plans to launch another 300,000 sq ft of office properties in Mumbai in the next six-nine months.
In the country’s commercial capital, Mumbai, over a dozen large developers and double their number of smaller ones are selling office properties as well, according to Ashok Kumar, Principal and Managing Director of Cresa Partners, a corporate realty services firm.
First generation of commercial realty saw sales model and then the Indian developers learnt the global pattern of lease model.
Mumbai’s residential home sales dropped to a three-year low in the quarter ended December as record home prices and higher interest rates crimped demand, according to Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.
As far as IPOs are concerned, out of the 132 IPOs lined up, the largest number -15 -are from the real estate sector.
IIFL Venture Capital Fund, the private equity arm of the India Infoline group, is reportedly raising Rs.500 crore for investing in real estate.