Track2Realty: Indian real estate market witnessed a significant change in the last decade mainly backed by opening up of FDI in the sector and shift in preference to high-rises over traditional low-rise structures, according to a report.
Track2Realty Exclusive: It may sound like a paradox but the rental market of Gujarat city is showing bias in two directions when it comes to the property acquisition on rent. While the housing market is showing rental bias in the negative direction, the same property index is going northwards in the commercial vertical of property.
Track2Realty: Over the past couple of months, no other Indian state has been talked about as much in the Indian media as Gujarat. Be it about Narendra Modi, former Chief Minister of Gujarat who is now Prime Minister of the nation or the growth model of the state.
Track2Realty: The residential real estate market across leading cities of the country is unlikely to see any traction before the upcoming festive season, when demand is expected to improve. While buyers have held off purchase decisions in anticipation of lowering interest rates, developers have been waiting for the festive season before launching special schemes and discounts to boost housing sales.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The NRI enquiries are unlikely to materialise as sales because Indian real estate has lost its credibility. Moreover, given that general elections are around the corner, real estate is in doldrums as all the black money that has been pumped into realty, is slowly being drained out to fund elections.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Coimbatore property market in many ways is an ideal investment paradise both for residential as well as commercial purposes. Its strategic location is also a traction point that attracts not only people in the South India but across the country. There are only a few property markets in India which has a fine balance between the residential and commercial developments, without one segment over-supplying and in the process over-shadowing the other.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The imprint in the minds of collective consciousness is about affordable market when it comes to Noida; the reality is increasingly getting different from perception. It is no more about affordable housing that defines Noida, nor is it about small industrial clusters; the multinationals and other big ticket corporate houses are increasingly rewriting the market dynamics of Noida.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Real estate development along highways and expressways is an established reality of India’s urban growth, yet a few have been trend setters. These are the territories which have been investment magnet much before being fully developed. National Highway 24, popularly known as NH 24 that connects the national capital Delhi to Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow running 438 kilo meter in length is one such highway which is being seen as the new growth corridor of north India in general and Delhi-NCR in particular.
Track2Realty: Buyers remained cautious but searched well for aspirational homes. Developers remained restrained but projects reached completion stages as all segments of the market prepared for a growth phase in Indian property market, aligned to the political optimism in India.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Elections, real estate and black money have a symbiotic relation. Track2Realty tries to understand this unique and complex relation of the sector and the politicians where cash is king, yet they deny and dismiss it. The colour of currency may be projected as white in public posturing, the cycle of cash transaction with black money starts from entry level itself. Lack of transparency is what keeps the cycle moving.