Mumbai real estate
According to ranking prepared by real estate data firm Qubrex, Noida has replaced Mumbai as the second-best realty destination of India this year. Gurgaon-Manesar retained the top slot. The rankings are based on parameters like – supply and demand, likely price appreciation in three years, emerging connectivity, potential growth in economic activity, nationally reputed builders, [...] Continue Reading »
As revealed by sources, in Mumbai‘s real estate market, cash transactions are still prevalent during transactions. The system of demanding an illegal cash payment still exists in many pockets of the city, especially Bandra, Khar and Juhu belts in the western suburbs. In the 1970s, builders used to take 80 per cent in cash and [...] Continue Reading »
At a time when the real estate sector is going through a lean phase and the inventory level of Mumbai is going up propelled by a dip in sales, the traditional upmarket residential enclaves of south Mumbai – are skyrocketing. The city’s plush Nepean Sea Road area sold for a boggling Rs 1.20 lakh a [...] Continue Reading »
According to real estate research firm Liasis Foras, the period between Q4 2010-11 and Q4 2011-12 was characterised by low volumes and high prices. In the period, the demand for real estate in six major markets of India – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune and Bangalore – fell by around 40 per cent on an [...] Continue Reading »
A recent survey was carried out by real estate research firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) on affordable housing in seven cities – Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. The survey shows that Mumbai tops six other cities in the country for the number of upcoming affordable housing projects. Around 15 projects are [...] Continue Reading »
Many real estate projects in Mumbai‘s western suburbs have been halted in recent times due to the sluggish demand and new Development Control Rules (DCR). Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently came up with a list of delayed projects in Mumbai and the western suburbs accounted for 202 of the 326 stalled projects in the city. [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai has witnessed new launches of around 3,600 units in the recent April-June quarter which is more than twice the number of 1,700 housing units launched in January-March, said Abhishek Kiran Gupta and Gagan Agrawal of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The Mumbai real estate is lagging behind for past one year owing to which [...] Continue Reading »
In present economic scenario, the real estate in India is struggling to get its pace. But Mumbai real estate has once again recorded the most expensive apartment deal in the country. A 28th-floor flat in Tahnee Heights, a residential skyscraper on Nepean Sea Road in south Mumbai, has sold at Rs 1.20 lakh a square [...] Continue Reading »
Buying a house in India will be a tough call for the first time home buyers as they have to contend with rapidly rising prices. Property prices have increased by 12% over the past year in India. India’s rapid increase in property prices may be a good news for developers. However for buyers it has [...] Continue Reading »
The residential property market in Mumbai has shown a negative growth of – 9.1 percent by the year ended in March 2012. According to a realty analyst firm, the performance of the sales market in Mumbai real estate has suffered by the global crisis. Though the cost of properties in Mumbai [...] Continue Reading »
