Anglo-Indian’s perspective on the Indian real estate market
Where does ‘Team Anglo Indian’ consider opportunities for Indian real estate right now?
Where does ‘Team Anglo Indian’ consider opportunities for Indian real estate right now?
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.
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.
Once hailed as the new experience in the destination shopping of super luxury, Parsvnath Developers is reportedly selling its 1.2-acre plot in the heart of Delhi, near Connaught Place, hoping to raise Rs.700-800 crore for paring its debt.
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.
Amidst the turbulence of many of the world’s largest economies, particularly in western markets such as the US and European economies, the broader macro economic outlook in Asia is encouraging.
Global financial uncertainty, shrinking demand, liquidity crunch, repo hike and demand-supply mismatch…all is not well with the commercial real estate in India.
East India, which has been for some time on the radar of national and international retailers, has, of late, seen some hyper activity in planning and developing quality retail space by real estate developers.