After three post-pandemic years of an upcycle, it was a mixed bag for the realty sector in 2025, with sales volumes in the residential real estate moderating across top cities, and commercial real estate and institutional investments emerging as standout performers. Residential: Volumes soften, value holds firm.
On the evidence so far, however, these steps have not improved the scale of transactions in the real estate market. Most buyers continue to hold back in the hope of further drops in prices, while developers find that financial succour gives them the staying power to withhold price cuts. The result may, therefore, prove to be the opposite of what was intended, by delaying the price adjustment that is essential if demand and supply are to balance once again.
As the global economy limps into 2009, barometers for the real estate industry are bleak.
This year there are high expectations for lowering home loan interest rates, over the next 12 months and increased interest rate subsidy for loans up to Rs 50 lakh.
Film folk turned up in large numbers to celebrate Producer and real estate developer Anand Pandit's 62nd birthday in Mumbai over the weekend.
Run and do not look back when you see these real estate code words
Institutional investments in real estate may fall 20 per cent to $4 billion during this calendar year because of a higher inflow of funds in 2020, according to property consultant JLL India. During the January-September period, the institutional investment rose to $2,977 million from $1,534 million in the year-ago period. "Unless some large portfolio deals are not inked at the end of the year, annual investments are expected to be in the $3.8-4 billion range in 2021," JLL said in a statement. Institutional investments managed to cross the $5 billion mark in 2020 due to large portfolio deals worth $3.2 billion during the last quarter of the year.
India's biggest listed developer, DLF, and Dubai's Nakheel have announced a joint venture with plans to invest more than $10bn to build two townships on 40,000 acres.
The move to delink the FDI provisions from investments by foreign institutional investors in real estate under the portfolio investment scheme was expected to lead to greater stock market play in real estate scrips. Government sources said the clarification was not mentioned in the minutes of the Cabinet meeting sent to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion recently. As a consequence, a press note could not be issued.
If the government tries to bring in real estate under GST now, it will be a typical case of biting more than what one can chew, says Sukumar Mukhopadhyay.
The real estate sector has underperformed the Sensex in the past 2 years.
India is ranked as the fifth most attractive destination for future real estate investments, according to a latest report of FCCI and Ernst and Young.
Mukesh Ambani has big plans for his real estate biz and is currently in the process of recruiting large number of professionals for it.
These are some of the most expensive real estate markets in the world.
A sustained two-digit average rate of return on capital accrued by developers is indicative of India's "build" momentum
At a time when capital allocations to real estate are growing globally, investors are expecting transparency standards in real estate to be at par with other asset classes, says Anuj Puri.
Ten cities investors will target in 2009.
India, the world's fourth largest economy with 1.2 billion people, has steadily emerged as one of the most preferred destinations for global business.
Money invested in real estate, for income and capital growth, provides stable and predictable returns similar to bonds offering a regular return on investment, if the property is rented, as well as capital appreciation.
Indian equities on Dalal Street saw volatility as global market trends and fresh tariff concerns linked to Donald Trump impacted investor sentiment. Track Sensex, Nifty50 movement and key market drivers for Feb 24, 2026.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty experienced a significant decline, primarily driven by a selloff in IT stocks due to concerns about AI disruption and renewed worries over global trade.
In a chat with readers on June 24, Tushar Bungley of 100floors.com said that real estate prices are unlikely to fall further.
Banks may be claiming that they are pruning their real estate exposure but data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) paints a completely different picture.
Making a presentation on Indian Real Estate Sector: Slumdog or Millionaire at an event hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, Sameer Nayar, managing director and head of real estate (Asia Pacific), Credit Suisse, said that land use laws in India are the most antiquated.
India's services sector experienced a slight moderation in growth during February, according to the HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index, with new order growth slowing and inflation picking up.
Between 2004-05 and 2007-08, FDI in services leapfrogged to $6.61 billion from $444 million, an official statement said. The real estate sector which was thrown open in 2004-05 saw the FDI picking up slowly in the initial two years, but grew substantially in 2007-08 to $2.17 billion.
Information technology giant, IBM has enlarged its business scope in China's booming IT market by officially entering the local real estate segment for the first time in the company's history, a report said on Monday.
Over $4 billion belonging to various global realty funds is ready to enter the Indian real estate sector on the back of $1 billion which has already come in, according to Bobby Parikh, managing partner, BMR & Associates.
Paving the way for domestic asset management companies (AMCs) to invest directly in real estate, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) today unveiled the much-awaited guidelines for real estate mutual funds (REMFs), which mandated that at least 35 per cent of the corpus of a scheme be invested directly in real estate assets.
The prospects of returns on investment in residential properties and office rentals is brighter than that in stock markets due to low risk factor, a real estate expert said.
Like mutual funds, real estate funds (or Real Estate Investment Trusts - REITs as they are commonly referred to in the US) are founded by a group of real estate professionals
According to multiple sources close to the development, Mercedes-Benz is already in talks with multiple developers in Gurugram for a luxury branded residence project.
'Except for extremely conservative investors, others can consider allocating 10 to 20 per cent of their portfolio to small caps.'
The government on Monday said it aims to slow down flow of foreign debt into the real estate sector through its recent curbs on external commercial borrowings (ECBs).
If you don't want to lose business to China or Vietnam, rents have to stay in check.
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