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.
High property prices coupled with continued increase in home loan interest rates over the last six months and inflationary pressures will keep transaction activities restrained.
First generation of commercial realty saw sales model and then the Indian developers learnt the global pattern of lease model.
Mumbai’s residential home sales dropped to a three-year low in the quarter ended December as record home prices and higher interest rates crimped demand, according to Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.
The demand for holiday homes in India is as wired into the country’s overall economic performance as every other segment of residential real estate.
Fitch Ratings’ outlook for 2012 for the Indian real estate sector is negative due to weak overall demand and higher construction costs, which are likely to continue to squeeze margins.
With the market set to bottom by out by the second quarter of 2012, we will see the beginning of a recovery in the city’s residential real estate fortunes by the second half of the year.
The ever-increasing housing needs in urban centers have caused home prices to shoot up to extremely unaffordable levels.
Amidst the turbulence of many of the world’s largest economies, particularly in western markets such as the US and European economies, the broader macro economic outlook in Asia is encouraging.
As the second home phenomenon gains currency in the industrially-developed Mumbai-Pune- Nashik belt, real estate firm Eiffel Group has earmarked Rs 300 crore over the next three years to launch more projects in the region, referred to as the state’s ‘golden triangle’.