Is 2012 right time to buy-I
1st of the series Track2Realty Exclusive The never ending debate…
1st of the series Track2Realty Exclusive The never ending debate…
Bangalore-based real estate firm Brigade Enterprises is looking to raise around Rs.150 crore through private equity route by offloading a part of its stake in one of the commercial projects in the city, sources in the PE industry said.
One of the main features of the real estate ecosystem is transparency. However, on the contrary, the market is considered as an information-inefficient market, where seller tends to provide less information to the buyer.
John Macomber, Senior Lecturer in real estate, Harvard Business School, says, “I am wary of market timing by residential investors. If you need a home and can afford it, buy a home and hold it.”
In view of the adverse publicity and shaken customer confidence arising out of significant delays in delivery of projects across the states, there is a strong acceptance of this matter by top management of the developers and investors alike.
Year 2011 was a challenging year for the Indian real estate sector. It was a year which brought to the mainstream need for policy level changes.
It may be momentary down because of rising interest rate, macro economic hue, affordability issues borne out of demand-supply mismatch and overall market sentiments, but forecast for the residential real estate is definitely robust.
When we launched Track2Realty as India’s 1st e newspaper in January 2011, there were many questions before us—Is there a room for another news venture for the sector?
The year 2011 can best be described as a lackluster year for Indian real estate sector. There were several headwinds that prevented the sector from delivering to its full potential.
Through the course of 2010, the realty sector evened out into a level playing field, with enough traction in the market to hold investor interest, with several on-going projects being delivered and others being launched.