2012: Year of cautious optimism for real estate-V
High property prices coupled with continued increase in home loan interest rates over the last six months and inflationary pressures will keep transaction activities restrained.
High property prices coupled with continued increase in home loan interest rates over the last six months and inflationary pressures will keep transaction activities restrained.
First generation of commercial realty saw sales model and then the Indian developers learnt the global pattern of lease model.
As far as IPOs are concerned, out of the 132 IPOs lined up, the largest number -15 -are from the real estate sector.
The real estate sector has welcomed the CRR rate cut by the RBI and said it will help revive demand in the housing segment.
Analysts are worried and do not see a rosy picture ahead in 2012. According to them real estate companies planning IPOs in 2012 may experience a lack of enthusiasm on the part of investors.
In 2011 six big ticket real estate IPOs was expected to raise over $2.9 billion or Rs.13,000 crore. Emaar MGF, which could not raise money in the capital market in consecutive attempts even when market conditions were conducive.
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.
Rising cost and falling transactions are taking their toll on the property market in both the Delhi-NCR and Mumbai.
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.