Housing sales are expected to remain strong during this current quarter and there will not be any major impact on demand from the fresh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to industry experts. Real estate developers and consultants said there was a minor impact in the first two weeks and sales enquiries are strong.
Budget 2022 is an opportunity for the government to ease the burden on a demographic that has been most affected by the double whammy of decreasing interest rates, increasing retail inflation and medical expenses inflation over the past couple of years – retirees and senior citizens.
Sixty seven per cent of high net worth individuals (HNIs) are planning to buy a luxury property in the next two years in order to upgrade their lifestyle, revealed a survey conducted by India Sotheby’s International Realty.
Residential real estate has staged a dramatic bounce-back across the top seven property markets in India, despite the devastating second wave of Covid-19 that reversed consumer sentiment across sectors, hitting the economy.
According to the Knight Frank report titled ‘Real Estate Outlook 2022’, India’s realty sector is showing signs of healthy growth in 2022. With the steady performance and quick revival, the real estate sector regained the buyer’s and investor’s trust and further picked up the growth momentum.
Goa has now firmly established itself as a year-round staycation destination, bumping up the average rentals for a well-located property to 4% per annum. Limited supply of quality homes has meant one of the fastest price escalations for Goa real estate, during the pandemic.
Perhaps the most important high point of 2021 for the Indian residential real estate market was that the real estate business did not come to a standstill despite the second wave of the pandemic, and shown resilience to come back from the lows of the uncertainty.
Lured by peace and private jetties, the wealthy are swooping in for villas in Assagao, Siolim, Nachinola and other parts of the state. Over the last two years, Goa’s languid charms have burst upon India’s high net worth individuals (HNIs), who are now swooping in for luxury homes.
Close to four years after the Goa Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act was formulated and notified, the Goa RERA has finally framed norms to return the registration fee paid by an agent or builder.
HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh Friday said the housing and real estate sector is “heading into the best of times” with a lot of “optimism in the air”. “In over 50 years of my work life, I have not seen housing affordability better than where it is today in India. I have not seen such easy liquidity conditions and interest rates at such record low levels,” Parekh said