Foreign investors
Foreign investors continue to elude Indian retail real estate sector despite it being one of the fastest growing markets in the past few years. Industry analysts blame the government’s policy regarding foreign direct investment into real estate, and particularly retail real estate, for discouraging overseas investors investing in India. Anuj Puri, chairman and country head [...] Continue Reading »
Foreign investors are funding Indian real estate market after the release of Press note 2 in 2005 which opened up construction and development for Foreign direct investment (FDI). Many investors who had invested at that time, largely in residential sector, are now heading towards maturity and are withdrawing their prime investments. According to a report [...] Continue Reading »
External commercial borrowing (ECB) is encouraged in the budget 2012 for the affordable housing projects. However according to analysts the foreign investors will not be interested to invest in the affordable housing projects due to the low profit margin. Also the cost of Indian rupees is volatile, it will be difficult for individual builders to [...] Continue Reading »
