Track2Realty Exclusive: Property analysts across the country refer Coimbatore as a market where the effects of slowdown is least visible. At a time when the other property markets across the country are reeling under slackening demand among other major worries, Coimbatore is proving to be a market where the property transactions are happening at a decent pace.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Prayag Damodar returned to the home town Ahmedabad after having spent 14 long years in the Gulf region where the only option of living has been high rises and skyscrapers. He had developed the liking for such vertical living so much that he had a feeling of missing that sky high living back home as the prevailing housing culture has been standalone residential units when he left the city.
Track2Realty: A high-rise is a tall or multi-storied building equipped with elevators, but various bodies have defined the term ‘high-rise differently. For instance, the International Conference on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings pessimistically defined a high-rise as a structure where height can seriously impact evacuation, while the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary merely refers to high-rises as buildings having many stories.
Track2Realty: Earlier in October, the US National Association of Realtors published a report which stated that buyers from India purchased residential properties in the US estimated at $5.8 billion in value during the one-year period ending March 2014.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The critics of Mumbai property market for long blamed it for getting saturated with no new avenue of growth. The peninsular city no doubt has a limitation as far as expanding its boundaries are concerned, yet Mumbai is increasingly challenging its geographical limitations. The expansion of the city, not just vertically but horizontally of late, is enough to silence the critics.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Cities come into existence either by design or by default and the first movers (either the local urban bodies or the private developers) give it a definite outlook & shape in terms of urban planning and overall outlook of the given city. This has been the pattern of urbanisation and rise and growth of the cities across the world with Indian being no exception.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While the real estate market in the metro cities have been flirting around with the NRIs to woo them with big-ticket investments, the discerning expat Indians had some other ideas. The destination to those desirable ideas was definitely not leading them to metro cities. So, at a time when the spate of luxury and super luxury launches were put on offer, the match makers of pricey dollars preferred to court the humble markets where the modest rupee was well grounded not to flaunt with pomp and show.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield in their latest research on the residential markets of India have reported a drop in total residential units launched in 3Q 2014 (July – Sept.) of approximately 21% as compared to same time last year.
Track2Realty: Poddar Developers has launched their new project ‘Poddar Aspire’. ‘Poddar Aspire’ is located in Teesgaon, Haji Malang Road, Kalyan East, 2km away from Kalyan railway station and well-connected to the metro junction mall, schools and hospital.
Track2Realty: It is going to be quite a hard sell for the real estate developers this festive season as a huge increase of 30% quarter–on–quarter in 2014-15 in new launches in the residential segment met with inventory further going up by 6.7% in the same period, according to an ASSOCHAM recent paper.