Real Estate Investment REITs to Boost Retail Investments Beyond Metros

Commercial real estate, and commercial retail properties in particular, are expected to garner support through real estate investment trusts or REITs. Pankaj Renjhen, Managing Director – Retail Services, JLL India, explores the scope of investments in retail asset through REITs in small towns and cities, beyond commercial projects in the…

Affordable Housing in India Gains Pace

Affordable housing, or low-cost homes, is gradually gaining pace in India. Anuj Puri, Chairman, ANAROCK Property Consultants real estate brokerage company, takes a look at the Indian real estate market in terms of low-cost affordable homes. The massive gap of affordable housing has drawn the Government of India’s focused attention…

Why Indian Home Buyers Continue to ‘Wait and Watch’?

In this article, Ashwinder Raj Singh explores the Indian residential property market and finds out why Indian home buyers continue to wait for property prices to fall and delay their decision to buy their homes. We keep hearing of the ‘wait-and-watch’ or ‘fence-sitting’ syndrome on the residential property market, which…

Why Buying Ready-to-Move House Makes Sense in a Rocky Property Market?

Should you buy an under-construction property in India? Is it better to purchase a ready property where you get immediate possession and control your house from the very first day? Ready Properties Have Limited Market Risk Real estate in India is going through a very turbulent phase over the past…

Rental Reforms Redefine the Indian Real Estate Sector

by Anuj Puri, Chairman – Anarock Property Consultants Several breakthrough reforms with pertinence to the Indian real estate sector saw the light of the day over the last one year. Be it demonetization – the Government’s ‘surgical strike’ against black money – the revolutionary RERA or the unified tax regime…