Real Estate market of Mumbai

Now some of the buyers are finally returning to the real estate market of Mumbai, as real estate developers are offering 5 to 10 per cent discount and other offers as well such as; foreign trips, free parking space, free car, free AC and more. Now in Mumbai’s real estate market due to reduced size of apartments and falling interest rates now it’s easy to sale the residential property and now currently home sales in Mumbai is 28 percent more in comparison of last four quarters, as per the reports of JLL India.

According to the Ramesh Nair, COO of JLL India, This is the balance of factors as; interest rates are dropping and real estate developers are offering huge discount, freebies with attractive schemes, sizes of apartments are dropping to make the apartments more affordable, buyers are thinking that market is all time low and it have bottomed out and all these factors lead towards the overall marginal improvement in the confidence of customers”. However; as per the trend it’s clear that in few launches people prefer to buy residential units whereas; in broad market there is no progress. Local property markets are not convinced with the latest numbers and statement that real estate market continues to be sluggish and these numbers may or may not be reflect an improvement in end-user sentiments.

According to Yashwant Dalal, President, Estate Agents Association of India, “In present, resale segment is seeing thin volume and even in primary market new launches, financial institutions are underwriting inventories. The more he added that we have the last year numbers and this year its much more than the last year”. As per the JLL India report, “Real estate developers in Mumbai have managed to sell more than 16,990 units in new projects in primary market in the duration of last four quarters, which ended on the September 30. And in previous four quarters the sales of residential units were 13,290 apartments. In slow market it is the sign of improvement and it has released the pressure on real estate developers. Due to weak price and more supply than demand in the market, real estate builders are shying away from the launching of new projects. However; the new launches in the first six month of 2015, was declined by 26 per cent from a year ago. As per the local brokers, real estate builders would prefer to hold the supply as well as construction than reduce prices and incur losses.
According to real estate market expert JLL India is not expecting rise in the price of houses for next two to three years as still builders are focusing on the inventory cleaning. In past few months we have seen some price correction which happen in last quarter, but capital values have not gone up. According to local brokers, real estate developers would prefer to hold the supply and the construction in different projects to bring down the price and incur losses. However; real estate developers are maintaining affordability of apartments just by reducing the size of residential units with the average reduced size of roughly 6 per cent annually.

Performance in Stock Market:

There are many real estate developers which are listed in stock market such as; DB Realty, Oberoi Realty, Hubtown, Mahindra Lifespace Developers and Godrej Properties and they are operating in Mumbai. The hottest property markets in the country have declined by the rate of 214 per cent in the past one month. According to real estate analysts, the second half of the financial year will be better for the organized players as they are ready with new launches to erase the debut. As per the statement of Samar Sarda, Lead Analyst in Real estate Segment at the Kotak Institutional Equities, “The overall real estate market will continues to shrink and most organized developers will get the more growth and gain in terms of market share.

Sahara chief Subrata Roy

It is reported that Sahara group has sold a plot near Delhi-Gurgaon border, which is worth of Rs 1,211crore and M3M India has brought it, which is Gurgaon based real-estate developer. It is considered as the one more step to raise the funds for bailing out Subrata Roy, a chairman of Sahara India, as Supreme Court allowed Sahara India to sell four properties located in Pune, Chauma, Jodhpur and Vasai. In the response of an e-mail Sahara India said, “We have presented all the relevant records in front of the honorable Supreme Court. Since it is the matter of sub-judice, we cannot comment any further on your query”.

M3M announced the sale on Thursday, but Pankaj Bansal, Director at M3M India, stated that it was not a distress sale by Sahara India. According to Pankaj Bansal, “M3M plans to build a mixed-use project on the land to build the internationally-branded residences and serviced apartments with retail and entertainment zones.

Sahara India, has been trying to sell the 185 acres, nearby IGI Airport (Indira Gandhi International Airport), from last one year. As per close officials, it had initially put a price of Rs 1,700 crore for the plot, but the deal with M3M has been closed at Rs 6.5 crore an acre. Brokers and market experts stated that, ongoing rate for an acre of land in this area is between Rs 9 crore and Rs 10 crore. In this project M3M will be able to construct on approximately 12 million sq ft. About deal M3M informed that court was about to sale, which then gave permission to close the deal, while explaining about payment arrangements, Pankaj Bansal, Director at M3M India said, “Our company has six post-dated cheques and Sahara India will get the entire money in form of installments in next six months.