Land acquisition has become a very contentious issue these days. There are some states where land acquisition has evoked public protest and at some places these are politically motivated as well.
The Indian real estate sector is poised for robust growth in FY25, driven by the country’s strong economic performance and rising demand across residential, commercial, and industrial segments. The IMF has revised India’s GDP forecast to 7% from 6.8% for FY25. Increased urbanization, infrastructure development, and favourable government policies are boosting homebuyers confidence. The residential sector is witnessing a continued surge in demand. Overall inventory overhang has reduced from 3.7 years (2017) to 1.3 years (Q1 CY 2024). Puravankara is expected to experience sustained growth, in line with the sector, supported by a conducive economic environment and evolving consumer preferences.
Greater Noida West, or Noida Extension in popular parlance, is a case study in how a high potential property market suffers from years of systematic plight. Reason is more political apathy than administrative callousness, and the home buyers in this part of the world are waiting for basic services like Underpass, Metro Rail, Foot Over Bridge among others for around a decade now. A micro market with around a million (10 lakh) vote bank, taken together voters of high-rise apartments & adjoining villages, is part of Gautam Buddha Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. Ravi Sinha finds that the citizens in this part of the world have no one but themselves to blame for having allowed elected representatives to treat them as taken for granted voters.
On Puravankara’s future plans he said, “We will continue to work towards expanding our market share,and we are excited to announce that in Q3FY23 the group has achieved increased revenue from projects by 77%, increased collection from operations by 87% from construction and delivery against the similar quarter in the previous year. This is supported by increased sales and new launches of over 4.11 msft in 9MFY23 with the last quarter of the current financial year adding another 2.17 msft. Our per Sq. Ft. of debt on under construction area has reduced by 49% from INR 2,524 to INR 1,291 over the last four years.
Puravankara stock has been pretty under-valued, claims Abhishek Kapoor, CEO of the company. According to him, it is the perception battle that Puravankara has to weather as the intrinsic value of the stock and the performance of the company is at par with the top real estate companies of the country. In an exclusive interview with Ravi Sinha, Puravankara CEO explains why and how the brand would change the perception in the next few years. Excerpt of the interview:
It was not the magic wand it was hoped to be. However, over the past two years, the Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) has brought more sanity – and the return of consumer power – than seemed possible in such a short time. The real estate sector is still struggling with it and the Act is very much work-in-progress in many states, but RERA nevertheless hangs like a sword of Damocles over a previously unregulated industry. Eventual compliance across the board seems inevitable.
While consolidation has been an ongoing phenomenon for some time, recent mergers, acquisitions and joint developments are underscoring this trend like never before. The Indian residential sector saw a series of disruptions in the last two to three years, with revolutionary reforms like DeMo, RERA and GST remarkably altering the way real estate business is conducted. A natural by-product of this upheaval was consolidation, with fly-by-night developers completely vanishing and small players merging with big ones.
Excuses galore within the sector and there is a big question mark over the execution and delivery capability of the developers. The execution failures have given a lending credence to the criticism that the developers just can not deliver on time. Delivery has emerged as a major issue even though the developers continue to blame it on external factors.
Many developers do not make themselves available to customers, making it necessary for them to deal with marketing personnel who are trained to be evasive and non-committal.
The private developers can at the best maintain some components of social infrastructure like schools & hospitals, but not the key components like police station or post office in the vicinity.