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.
In India, investor interest is also seeing a slowdown on account of the lower absorption of new developments and the disparity between investment returns and capital values.
Market report has it that commercial realty is continuously going into red. A Report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests Indian commercial property market has lost momentum in Q3 with the capital values turning negative for the first time since 2009.
With benefits under STPI scheme gone and deadline to fully avail SEZ benefits set for March 2014, demand for SEZ space is expected to witness some momentum in 2012.
Global financial uncertainty, shrinking demand, liquidity crunch, repo hike and demand-supply mismatch…all is not well with the commercial real estate in India.
As the real estate sector in the country stands at a critical juncture, the performance of this sector will be largely governed by the following drivers.
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.”
Economic growth and real estate performance are two significantly intertwined characteristics. It is widely accepted fact that demand for real estate space is drawn and influenced from economic environment.
The anticipated demand is likely to exert an upward pressure on property prices especially in markets like NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore where the demand-supply gap is high.
Will 2011 carry forward gloom in the realty market? That is the question on everybody’s lips today and the sector seems to be only praying that the worst has been left behind in 2011.