Lutyens Delhi bungalow

According to reports, Assam Company, which is located at Kolkata is contemplating to sell a bungalow in Delhi which is situated at Bhagwan Das Road and comes under the Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone of central Delhi.

About Assam Company:

Assam Company is basically from the business of tea plantation and oil & gas and it is expecting Rs 1,100 from the sale of property.  According to real estate experts, it could be the best and biggest real estate deal in recent years.

Property Details:

Property is strategically located near the India Gate¸ Supreme Court and other high-street shops which are in the Connaught Place. However; property is spread over an area of 13,723 square metres or 3.4 acres or 13,723 square metres. According to sources, the property will be sold through auction and all the potential buyers have to submit their bids.

This time it is JLL Indian, property consultant who is handling the transaction of Assam Company. According to property expert, “The expectation of Assam Company is very high and in this subdued market, conditions are not so positive. However; the company could get Rs 700-800 crore from the sale”. The more he added that property markets are dull and demand for large properties are too weak, but still it depends on the auction and the response of the buyers.

Some big property transactions in Mumbai:

Last year, it was billionaire Cyrus Poonawala, who bought Lincoln House from the US Consultate in Mumbai and the cost of deal was about Rs. 750 crore with the tag of largest property deal. However; there were hurdle from defense ministry as they were asking the local collector to register the property only after getting approval. According to reports, the company could repay the high value loan from ICIC Bank with the help of property sale. But the staffs of the property are not aware about any sale. Last year, it was the Subhash Chandra, promoter of Essel group who bought a bungalow in same area after paying Rs 304 crore from realty firm Anant Raj Group.

Some big property transactions in Delhi:

We all know that in past two to three years, Delhi has witness many great deals in Lutyens’ Delhi. As last year, V C Burman, Chairman Emeritus of Dabur Group bought a bungalow in the tony Golf Links area and the cost of deal was about Rs 160 crore.

Apart from that earlier, Rajiv Rattan, Co-Founder of Indiabulls Group, bought a bungalow of 2,920-sq yard on Amrita Shergill Marg in Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone at an amount of Rs 220 crore.

In 2015, the Delhi based real estate builder Kabul Chawla of BPTP sold a bungalow of 575 sq yard in Golf Links for Rs 65 crore.

Property prices in Mumbai

According to few reports, property prices will remain high in certain market conditions, but they will not increase any more. The value of under construction property which is unsold in real estate inventory in Mumbai can be anything as its R 53,400 crore for a clutch of listed firms and it presents that consumer confidence isn’t exactly soaring. What can be worse with an additional R36,800 crore of launches in the area of 20.4 million sq ft, which is more than half of south central part of the city and it can put the prices of real estate industry under pressure.

According to Niranjan Hiranandani, co-founder of Hiranandani Developers, in real estate market pricing strategy is now crucial since only relatively affordable projects are able to find takers whereas; high end properties in the central and southern parts of the city aren’t seeing any specific interest. Ghulam Zia Executive Director of  Knight Frank India, stated that first-time home buyers continued to sit on the fence however in recent budget there are no incentives for home buyers the market will get revitalized only once the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) begins to cut interest rates.

Analysis of Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE):

According to analysis of Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE) the numbers are clearly indicating that says land buying has dropped and prices are not going so up as only there are four or five developers have the capacity to buy land worth more than $200 million. The analysis showed that Oberoi Realty, Peninsula Land, Sunteck Realty, Godrej Properties, HDIL, DB Realty and Indiabulls real estate are among those property developers who are sitting on high inventories and major part of those inventories belongs from Lower Parel, Worli, south and central pockets of Mumbai and Prabhadevi.

Ambar Maheshwari, CEO of Indiabulls Group also believes that there is a glut at the premium and high ends of the real estate market. The more he added that a recovery is unlikely in areas like Lower Parel and Prabhadevi unless developers build smaller apartments that result in some kind of rationalization in prices. In present Oberoi Realty is targeting on the sales of unsold inventory and they are expecting to sale it in next 12 months, but KIE expects the company will only be able to sell R8,500 crore worth of residences in the next 30 months. As per the data issued by the Director General of Mumbai, in the first 11 months of 2014, property registrations fell 2.4 per cent.

As per few reports developers are planning to offer discount after definitive interest from buyers and channel checks suggest that large number of units are being sold in the 20:80 schemes which will be without a bank debt burden to and trip abroad for designing apartments however discounts are becoming more evident as real estate developers are also offering absolute discounts to investors and as well as end buyers now. These measures are clearly failing to impress and attract new buyers. In certain real estate market, in certain markets developers are selling 20-30 units in a month while in others they could be selling in 2 to 6 a month. Amit Bhagat, who is CEO & MD, ASK Property, stated that the demand was tepid in the luxury space so any developer who was leveraged might be under pressure.