The over-heated Mumbai property market is taking its toll on the property transactions and sales in Mumbai property is the lowest of the six major cities across the country. According to reports, over the last one year leading to December 2011, residential sales in Mumbai have dropped by 28 per cent.
Over the last one year, capital values rose by more than 30-35% in Gurgaon’s residential sector. Developers are now going slow on execution of real estate projects, resulting in a drop in supply of residential apartments in most prime markets. Emerging residential areas are still not able to meet the huge housing demand.
In contrast to what was been witnessed in many of the more volatile cities over the last couple of years, Chennai’s residential property market saw steady growth in terms of pricing, demand and supply. Chennai’s residential property market is predominantly end user driven, and this fact did a lot to sustain consistent absorption throughout 2011.
During the year 2011 when almost all other matured property market witnessed dip in transaction and price correction was on everyone’s lip, Bangalore registered both healthy transaction as well as upward price movement.
Mumbai continues to be the costliest property market in India but the sales graph show this value has started taking its toll on the volume. Property registration in India’s biggest real estate market continued its slide and in September recorded a 29-month low at 4,137, down 22 per cent year-on-year.
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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.”
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.