By Shishir Baijal, Chairman & Managing Director, Knight Frank India “In light of the present economic distress in the country, we welcome the move to bring down REPO rate by 35 bps however, we would have really expected to see a more substantial cut is the need of the hour for its effective transmission to […]
By Shishir Baijal – Chairman & Managing Director, Knight Frank India The Indian economy is going through testing times. What was initially being perceived as a sector-specific degrowth has now panned out to be an overall economic slowdown.The automobile and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industries are in a slump, job markets are strained with […]
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter Whether you are planning to leave your property or discover a house on rent, there is excellent news for you. The lately formulated Model Tenancy Bill, 2019, suggested several measures that could cover some of the grounds for disputes between tenants and landlords. The current legislation is skewed, providing one party […]
Residential sales grew by 4% in H1 2019; Launches rise by 21%, nationallyResidential sales grew by 4% in H1 2019; Launches rise by 21%, national office space supply and transaction volume at an all-time high; Co-working spaces account for 15% of volume in H1 2019. Knight Frank India today launched the 11th edition of its […]
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter The property market doesn’t look like picking lost portions and the land still looks brittle. The Knight Frank India report shows that housing units sold (in Mumbai) have increased by 4% in the H1 2019 to 33,731 from 32,412 in the H1 2018 period, for the period January – June 2019, in eight […]
The Central Bank and government have taken meaningful measures to alleviate the stress in the real estate sector by executing three successive repo rate cuts and rationalising the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. Now is the time to look further and focus on more specific issues. Following are a series of expectations from the […]
By Abhay Harish Shah, Realty Quarter For the third time this year, the real estate sector has welcomed RBI’s decision to lower interest rates by 25 basis points. It is expected to lead to a decrease in home loan EMIs and increase affordability for homebuyers. The main challenge, however, is for RBI to ensure that the […]
India’s pandemic-crushed in and around Bengaluru and Hyderabad commercial property renting market that is being sprouted up by deals also major cities such as Mumbai and NCR see changes going back to normal. Negotiation with builders is done by Apple for a 350,000 sqft office space in Bengaluru which will work its global markets, and […]
The real estate industry has urged the government to lower the interest rate on home loans to 7% and to raise the deduction of income tax on interest paid on housing loans to Rs 5 lakh to help revive demand after home sales rose by just 1% in 2019. The industry body National Real Estate […]
The real estate developers expressed disappointment at the decision of the Reserve Bank of India to maintain the status quo on policy rates in its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy review of the financial year. The Reserve Bank of India since February has reduced interest rates by cumulatively 135 basis points in five consecutive reductions in […]
