In a double whammy for real estate developers, banks are likely to raise lending rates to builders by up to one percentage point while consumer interest fades with home loans becoming more expensive.
Mukherjee, however, did not roll back the hike in excise and customs duty on petrol and diesel.
Faced with falling residential demand, home buyers are being wooed with cars, fitouts, parking discounts. People familiar with the property market say this initiative, being led mainly by property marketing companies and a few investors or speculators, is unhealthy. They are doing this as they have put their money into properties at overheated locations and are now desperate to exit.
The asset also has emotional value and therefore families should perform meticulous research before buying the same. The following is a set of must-dos before buying a house.
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'You may opt for a longer minimum guaranteed tenure of 12-18 months. This will ensure that in a rising rental scenario, the landlord doesn't serve you a notice and ask you to vacate the property.'
Housing sales mostly declined during the first and the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic but prices did not fall in most of the cities but rather increased in some cities, according to the Economic Survey 2021-22. The pre-Budget document also highlighted that the housing demand recovered after both the waves on the back of pent up demand, low interest rates on home loans and reduction in stamp duty by some states. The survey has analysed the National Housing Bank's data on change in housing transactions in Q1FY21 (first COVID-19 wave) and Q1FY22 (second COVID-19 wave) over the pre-pandemic levels of Q1FY20. It also looked into change in housing prices index during this period.
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For prospective buyers, the advice is simple. Go ahead and buy because there is no indication of where the interest rate will be in the next six months.
You must remember to choose the right home loan if you do not want to face the hassles in the process.
The affordable housing segment may be seeing an uptick which is a good sign of consumption momentum. This is the biggest-ticket purchase for middle income and lower income families. The current activity is at least partly driven by a pause in interest rate hikes.
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'Industry observers are certain the next attempt will succeed even if they have to browbeat someone into buying as the government has put its might behind it,' predicts Anjuli Bhargava.
The four-day property exhibition, which concluded on Sunday, saw prospective home buyers returning 'disappointed'as they found the property prices 'unaffordable' and discounts 'meaningless'.The sales were down more than 60 per cent at the 13th Real Estate and Housing Finance exhibition, which was organised by the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry.
The devil is in the detail for the real estate sector. Though the Budget gave sops to home buyers in the form of tax savings and interest rate subvention, it quietly brought back service tax on lease rentals in the Finance Bill.
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DLF, Unitech, HDIL & Puravankara line up 60 million square feet of new launches. This is more than double the sales bookings in the past financial year.
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Tata Housing's efforts at helping less privileged sections of society are commendable, but after a point it won't be able to do much for the simple reason that there aren't going to be enough lenders to give loans to these prospective home buyers.
People are not just splurging on clothes, mobiles and household goods through the online route, they are also looking at cars and even houses.
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Usually buyers get bogged down by details. How wonderful it will be if someone can assure us with finances and all we have to focus on is to find a nice home.
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A day after the Budget, the industry estimates the sale of affordable homes could increase up to 20 per cent this year due to an additional exemption granted to first-time buyers.
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With developers opting for a cost escalation clause, buyers could find sudden rises in an under-construction property.
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To cater to home loan borrowers, housing finance companies and banks offer a variety of repayment options to suit an individual's need.
Among the Sensex firms, HCL Technologies, Tata Motors, Hindustan Unilever, NTPC, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance and Mahindra & Mahindra were the major gainers. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and Asian Paints were the laggards.
"The stability is because of the good supply. The home buyers have greater choice too," said D Timmana Goud, head retail assets-south, Axis Bank.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the residential property market during the April-June period last year but sales have improved in affordable homes segment since July onwards, reflecting economic recovery in the real estate sector, according to the Economic Survey. The National Housing Bank's (NHB) Housing Price Indices (HPIs) are a broad measure of movement of residential property prices observed within a geographic boundary. The NHB-RESIDEX captures two housing price indices -- HPI@ Assessment Prices and HPI@ Market Prices - Under Construction Properties based on the data available for 50 cities with quarterly updation.
According to Knight Frank, in the second half of 2015, launches will be down 52 per cent (from 37,643 in the second half of 2014) to 18,000, while absorption will improve 24 per cent.
