Real estate companies reeling under the bad debt and falling sales graph are expected to record yet another bearish quarterly results with most of the listed companies’ shares already in the red. Listed real estate companies represented by the Realty Index on BSE have witnessed a fall of 1.7 per cent over the past one month.
Land is scarce and the only way in urbanisation is to go up where more FSI/FAR would mean increasing the supply and bringing the price down, goes an old philosophy of the Indian developers. In reality, nearly all the high rises across the Indian cities are high-end luxury projects and seem to fulfil the aspirational needs of the Richie Rich.
Pranay Vakil: The problem is when having sanctioned the loan, there is no fear of revoking it. You can change your mind because these funds are kind of committed. When engage Shapoorji Pallonji or L&T to execute a project, you enter into a contract and you say that this is how we are going to make payments. Suddenly, if you are to switch off the tap, it is going to cause a lot of embarrassment to the developer.
Greater emphasis needs to be awarded to project delivery in light of the human, physical and monetary resources that are lost as a consequence of such delays. Even in the most robust economy, the challenges involved in construction and delivery of projects are enormous. There are common worries focused on timeliness, costs, performance and delivery. Stakeholders involved across the development process are often insufficiently coordinated to deliver a finished product within budget and on time.
Realty major DLF may not extend sponsorship to the Indian Premier League (IPL) after its first five-year deal expires this year. According to DLF sources, they have conveyed this to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The private equity firm ASK Property Investment Advisors has bought 49% stake in Godrej Properties’ Chembur project.
Atul Modak: Why did bankers’ lobby not block the mutual funds then?
Pranay Vakil: Because the mutual funds lobby is larger than the bankers’ lobby. They could not do anything about it. The companies into mutual funds are so large, they might just foray into banking.
The emergence of the secondary and tertiary cities led to an aggressive increase in hotel development and provided avenues for expansion of hotel brands, which were previously dependent on new opportunities in just the five main cities.
Sunil Dahiya: I have a copy of the circular which PNB got from the RBI and probably the managers are interpreting that in their own way. Now the circular that has been shared by the HO with the managers says that they will not take any exposure in housing loans, not even non-fund based.
All areas of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai witnessed an appreciation in rental values when we compare rentals of a 3BHK residential apartment in Q1-12( Jan- Feb- Mar 2011) over Q1-11(Jan-Feb-Mar 2010), says a study by realty portal 99 acres.com. Mumbai as such has always been in the forefront when it comes to rental values of properties. It has in the recent years witnessed a record rise in rental values which is at par with some of the highest real estate rental rates in the world.