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Even as global economic slowdown and uncertainty in financial markets have battered the real estate industry countrywide, properties in Kolkata and Chennai bucked the trend with steady demand in affordable and mid-segment housing.
The impact of slowdown is already being felt on the real estate market with residential segment witnessing sluggish demand across all the major cities.
Mumbai’s residential home sales recovered from a 30-month low in the third quarter as new projects boosted supply, according to Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.
Mumbai real estate is debating over a possible price correction as sale registrations for September recorded a 29-month low at 4,137, down 22 per cent year-on-year.
The festival of Diwali has a direct bearing on the property market, and irrespective of the overall macro economic scenario the property transactions around this time of the year have been the maximum.
The latest interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is bound to push up the price of housing loans as well as the residential apartments.
In a further blow to the dampened Diwali spirit of the realty sector, the RBI raised interest rates on today but said it was likely to hold off on further increases as it expects high inflation to ease beginning in December.
Realty major DLF has begun selling homes in south Bangalore for prices starting at Rs.28 lakh compared to the Rs.70 lakh-plus starting price for most of its flats, echoing a trend it has stayed away from for years.
It has been quite some time that Mamata Banerjee took over the rein of West Bengal after 34 long years of Left Front rule.