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Anuj Puri, Chairman – JLLR (JLL Residential) Did demonetization erase black money in real estate? Just a couple of months ago, demonetization appeared to have taken all the remaining steam of our Indian real estate’s sails. Sales in the significantly cash-driven resale homes market nosedived and prices in this segment declined by as …
The real estate sector in India has been lucrative for savvy investors over the last decade, but it has not been without accompanying uncertainties. The introduction of REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) will open up a platform that will allow all kinds of investors – even those with smaller budgets – to make safe and …
Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India As a landmark year for the country – and the real estate industry – draws to a close, it’s time to analyze what happened in 2016 and what to expect in 2017. For the real estate industry, 2016 saw the biggest changes in decades, especially on the …
Tracing The Boom… The structural adjustment programme of the early 1990s initiated the liberalization of the Indian economy. The roots of the high appreciation rates on India’s property market witnessed during the boom period lie in the reduction of interest rates that were instituted from year 2001 by Government’s continued policy of liberalization of …
Anuj Puri – Chairman & Country Head, JLL India Tech is disrupting the transaction life cycles of real estate asset classes in India, and could soon start transforming real estate requirements too First, computers arrived, then the Internet; both revolutionised the world. Even today, IT continues to democratise the world as also catalyse the introduction …
Real estate is a major driver of the Indian economy, but when we consider the larger business environment in the country, it is still only part of the greater whole. When economic crisis hits, real estate is affected along with all other industries. In such troubled times, the policy-makers with whom the power to create …
Indian real estate sector has always been known for its infamous deeds primarily because of the unorganised process that it follows which is still persisting. But at the same time, it is able to contribute gigantically towards India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment opportunities. With the absence of a regulatory body, single window clearance …
Ashwinder Raj Singh, CEO – Residential Services, JLL India Over the past few decades, the urge to ensure a better standard of living for themselves and their families back home has led countless Indians to migrate to countries offering attractive work-pay equations. This income-generating objective is the highest common factor – and though NRIs’ …
Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group Foreign investors into Indian real estate are looking at two primary aspects – an investment-friendly policy environment and project opportunities by established, credible developers. They are taking the long-term view and not looking at immediate gains, but at sustainable and assured returns on investment. In particular, the policies …
Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India The year 2014 has been quite fruitful for the real estate sector in terms of business sentiment, although the real effect of many of the policies and amendments announced in 2014 will take effect only in 2015. Starting from Union Budget FY2014-15, where affordable housing was …