Tag: Real estate banking and government initiatives to protect investments

Rules governing non-banking financial companies (NBFC) in India’s real estate sector

By Anita Tomer & Priya Chetty on December 26, 2017 No Comments

Traditionally, India has had a bank dominated financial sector. Even so, there have always been Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) to provide finance to mainly unorganized markets. NBFC have continued to complement banks in providing infrastructure finance.

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Challenges faced by the Indian real estate sector

By Anita Tomer & Priya Chetty on August 17, 2017 1 Comment

The Indian real estate sector has come a long way since the 1990s’ by becoming one of the fastest growing markets in the world. It is not only successfully attracting domestic real estate investment but foreign investments too.

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Impact of Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA) on India’s real estate sector

By Priya Chetty on August 16, 2017 No Comments

The Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA) 2016 is a revolutionary Act in the history of the Indian real estate sector.  It was introduced first in the year 2013, but due to objections raised in the parliament, it came into effect only in May 2016.

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Impact of macroeconomic factors on the growth of the real estate sector in India

By Anita Tomer & Priya Chetty on July 31, 2017 1 Comment

In India, the construction business in the real estate sector is the second largest in terms of employment generation. It is next only to the agriculture sector. As an economic activity construction provides employment to approximately 33 million people in India (Nithyamanohari & Ambika, 2014).

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Factors affecting real estate supply in India

By Anita Tomer & Priya Chetty on July 19, 2017 1 Comment

Real estate supply refers to a schedule that describes the quantity of commercial space or number of housing units supplied at varying prices. The rising economic performance in India has increased affordability and living standards in the country, particularly the upper and middle class.

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Reasons behind the slowdown in real estate sector in India

By Indra Giri & Priya Chetty on January 23, 2017 1 Comment

The real estate sector is one of the most dynamic and globally recognized sectors today, owing to a number of factors like population spurt and increased purchasing power of consumers. India is one of the biggest real estate market. It comprises of four subsectors namely housing, retail, hospitality and commercial. Growth of these sectors is highly dependent on the growth of the corporate environment and the demand for office space and residential projects (IBEF, 2016).

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Real estate market in Mumbai and Pune

By Indra Giri & Priya Chetty on January 19, 2017 1 Comment

In the past five years, there has been an undeniable slump in India’s real estate. This was due to reasons such as after-effects of the recession, inflation, inventory pile-up, etc. However the same has not been majorly felt in India’s two metropolitan cities, Mumbai and Pune.

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