After a sharp recovery in the first one-and-a-half months of the calendar year — the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Realty Index gained over 50 per cent, real estate stocks seem to have lost steam.
In the environment of cut-throat competition which exists in the Indian real estate market today, developers without a forward-looking marketing plan for their projects often lose out.
Property consultants and real estate developers have demanded industry status to the realty sector in the forthcoming Budget.
Come budget and the real estate sector, like any other industry, comes out with its own wish list. Unfortunately, while other organised industry get a patient hearing through their industry bodies, the Finance minister seem to be hardly entertaining the sector representatives till recently.
RBI’s latest notification says that stamp duty, registration and other charges should be excluded while calculating the value of a property. This is expected to have a short-term impact and is unlikely to turn out to be a show stopper.
India is the ninth largest construction market in the world according to a Global Construction 2020 report by Oxford Economics. Growing at an estimated cumulative annual growth rate of 8.9%, it is expected to become the third largest market by 2020 and is globally acknowledged as an extremely lucrative business opportunity.
Phoenix has recently also sold 80 per cent of office properties in its mixed-use Market City projects in Kurla in Mumbai and Pune, respectively. It plans to launch another 300,000 sq ft of office properties in Mumbai in the next six-nine months.
In the country’s commercial capital, Mumbai, over a dozen large developers and double their number of smaller ones are selling office properties as well, according to Ashok Kumar, Principal and Managing Director of Cresa Partners, a corporate realty services firm.
First generation of commercial realty saw sales model and then the Indian developers learnt the global pattern of lease model.
As far as IPOs are concerned, out of the 132 IPOs lined up, the largest number -15 -are from the real estate sector.