According to the latest RICS India Commercial Property Survey, sentiment in the Indian real estate market has been adversely affected in the second quarter, as the economic picture in the country continues to remain bleak with the declining value of the rupee and growth forecasts being revised lower, along with a deteriorating global climate.
The real estate sector is ready to have its own regulator. Sector is actually craving for a regulator as we have come to understand that a single window will give us a way forward to growth and customer satisfaction. At this moment we are living in a regime of 40 NOC’s to a project and still no permission to function. It has no meaning and it does not give us the freedom to grow.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, July 24, asked the Centre and the DDA to resolve the dispute of alleged extra flats built by real estate major Emaar MFG in the Commonwealth Games village, coming in way of allocation of accommodation to buyers.
Most regions in the top metros have seen prices soar by double digit percentages in the last three years with areas in Mumbai and Delhi-NCR witnessing maximum price gains. In Delhi, Dwarka and Gurgaon regions saw 64% and 50% price rise in 2012 when compared to 2010. In Mumbai, Mira Road, Thane and Navi Mumbai saw prices increase within the range of 48% and 51% during the same time period. These are the findings of 99 acres.com study on the trends in realty prices of key metros.
Pointing out that real estate development can revive the sagging economy, developers’ apex body CREDAI has called for launching a mission to make India Housing Surplus from the current status of a housing deficit nation by 2020.
In the past, Ahmedabad – the largest city of Gujarat – was largely thought of as a trading hub with localized market drivers. Today, we can confidently state that nothing could be more further from the truth. Jones Lang LaSalle India made a well-researched move when it launched operations in Ahmedabad in 2009. The decision to enter the city was based on its unmatched promise as a potential real estate investment destination, which factored in the city’s healthy local demand, as well as its outstanding industrial story.
Cushman & Wakefield has opened its new office in Ahmedabad…
India today needs global products and large scale regions to be developed which has to have inherent quality of having a good financial ecosystem, legal ecosystem, administrative ecosystem and the ecology of real estate has to function under the regulatory environment. But the regulatory environment should not be restrictive and instead focused to give impetus to the industry.
Real Estate in India is touching great heights and you will find many Property Consultant and Brokers sitting to finalize a deal with the buyers. Once in a lifetime everyone wants to experience – buying a residential or a commercial property and it is a requisite to be extra cautious while buying a property in India.
Till the ‘90s and even early years of the last decade, commercial real estate was being built as just another asset class to be leased out to entrepreneurs who would start or expand business as and when required. Most office buildings were largely built in the central business districts of various cities, functioning primarily as the central node where most of the commercial activity of the city took place.