Housing sales up 12% YoY in Jan-Sept across 8 cities: Report

The adoption of earn a living from home coverage has additionally led to an increase in housing demand.

 

Housing sales across 8 cities have elevated by 12 per cent to 1,38,051 models throughout the January-September interval of the present calendar year from 1,23,725 models in the corresponding interval of 2020, as per a latest report by PropTiger.com.

The report ‘Real Insight residential Q3 2021’ states that new launches have additionally greater than doubled to 1,40,087 models throughout the January-September 2021 from 68,097 models in the year-ago interval. Fresh provide has already crossed the annual figures for 2020 that noticed complete new launches at 1,22,426 models across eight cities.

“Driven by pent-up demand and festive sales as well as gradual recovery in the Indian economy, improved job market and low interest rates, housing sales are likely to rise by 15-20 per cent above the 2020 level during the current calendar year despite the strong second wave of the COVID pandemic. Property sales picked up from July onwards as the infection rates waned,” mentioned Rajan Sood, Business Head, PropTiger.com.

However, “despite the revival in the residential real estate market, housing sales might still fall short of the 2019 numbers. A lot is dependent on the sales numbers in the ongoing quarter. As per market estimates, housing sales could rise by a high double-digit percentage during the October-December period of this year from 58,914 units in the same quarter last year,” he added.

In the 2020 calendar year, sales plunged 47 per cent to 1,82,639 models from 347,586 models in the earlier year, primarily due to strict nationwide lockdowns to manage the lethal coronavirus throughout April-June final year.

“The likely growth in housing sales augurs well for the Indian real estate market and the overall Indian economy. The contribution of real estate in employment generation as well as the country’s GDP is immense. So, the recovery in the housing market is the need of the hour,” mentioned Sood.

“We are seeing heightened property search activity on Housing.com which points towards a positive turnaround for the residential real estate market for 2021. Reflecting the optimism in the sector, Housing.com’s IRIS index, which is a leading indicator to assess the upcoming residential demand in the country, closed at an all-time high in September this year,” mentioned Ankita Sood, Director and Head of Research, PropTiger.com, Housing.com & Makaan.com.

She mentioned, “In case of Bengaluru, the online high-intent homebuyer activity in the city is already 90% closer to the historical peak of March 2021. Most of these property searches are concentrated in prominent commercial and residential locales such as Krishnarajapura, Whitefield, Varthur and Electronic City. The build-up of search queries suggests improving consumer sentiment in this end-user driven residential market, signaling a positive outlook for the year.”

The demand drivers over the past one year have been — low rates of interest on residence loans, steady housing costs in the previous few years, reductions & particular provides from builders to hurry up liquidation of their shares and stamp obligation discount by varied state governments together with Karnataka whereby the state has lowered the stamp obligation on property priced between Rs 35 lakh and Rs 45 lakh to three% from the sooner 5%.

The adoption of earn a living from home coverage has additionally led to an increase in housing demand. The perception in residence possession has gained momentum, even amongst younger millennials who earlier had been reluctant to purchase properties, preferring the flexibleness provided by shared residing.

After the outbreak of the pandemic, the consolidation of housing demand in direction of huge, listed and reputed builders has gained momentum. This is getting mirrored in their quarterly sales bookings numbers.

Nevertheless, India’s residential market would nonetheless take a while to achieve the pre-Covid ranges of round 3.5 lakh models of annual sales.

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Research by PropTiger.com exhibits that demand for plots has improved across all main cities. Independent flooring too are in demand in some cities like Delhi-NCR. The demand is essentially pushed by end-users in inexpensive and mid-income segments, however luxurious properties are additionally not lagging behind.

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