Indian Property

Mumbai, 21 January 2016: International property consulting firm JLL India has partnered with RICS to publish its latest real estate research report on Capital Market trends in the Indian Real Estate sector. The report 'Peering into 2016: Taking Pulse of Investor Preferences' tunes in to the voice of the investor community to gauge the investment patterns and key investment themes in the Indian real estate for 2016. According to Ramesh Nair, COO & International Director, JLL India: "Private Equity capital has been instrumental in propelling the real estate boom in India, but it is a sector where banking finance has had its own restrictions to cope with. After a relatively muted CY 2013 and CY 2014, PE investors increased their bets into the Indian real estate sector significantly in CY 2015. This report examines the motivations and expectations of PE funds who are now actively ramping up their exposure into this sector." JLL carried out a survey of ...

By Ashwinder Raj Singh, CEO – Residential Services, JLL India The most frequently-occurring type of disagreement in Indian real estate is land dispute. Cases range from of illicit land grabbing and illegal land sales to instances of purchase of land where no actual purchase has taken place – to name just a few. The real estate market has historically been plagued by such issues, and the current government’s initiative of facilitating e-registration to streamline the registration of immovable properties is an extremely progressive move which has been universally welcomed for its transparency and ease of use. E-registration has simplified the process for providing evidence of titles and facilitating transactions, and will go a long way in preventing the unlawful disposal of land. This online registration system effectively put paid to the various underlying problems and loopholes in the traditional land registration process, based on the Land Registration Act of 1925, which typical...

By Anuj Puri, Chairman and Country Head at JLL India JLL Research’s latest report ‘Is Indian Real Estate Heading Towards A Tectonic Shift?’ examines the transitions that India’s real estate has undergone over the past decade. Among the major trends is how developers have been decreasing apartment sizes to suit affordability of buyers. Builders are exploring innovative ways to make residential housing across major cities more appealing to potential buyers at a time when it is increasingly becoming difficult to sell expensive apartments. Around the country, builders are emulating the famous sachet marketing strategy adopted by FMCG companies in the late 1990s. Unable to sell expensive homes in a sluggish market, builders across India are making smaller apartments without lowering the price per square feet and compromising on the quality of product. In the last five years, average apartment sizes falling across all major cities of India. The following chart shows the varying degree...

By  Ramesh Nair, COO - Business & International Director, JLL India Yes, it is possible to negotiate with residential property developers. As home sales continue to look sluggish in many parts of the country, developers are becoming more open to a bit of creativity on their stated terms. How can you, as a buyer, put your best foot forward at the negotiation table? Above everything else, the Scout's Motto holds true - Be Prepared. You should be conversant with comparable sales in the project’s vicinity, and know how long it has been on the market. It is important to establish what the launch rates were, how they have moved since then and what the current demand for flats like yours is in the stated locality. You should also find out by word of mouth how much the developer is willing to negotiate. Typically, developers make decisions on pricing based on how a particular project is performing, as well as on how they are faring in general. If you are in...

By Ashwinder Raj Singh, CEO – Residential Services, JLL India If you have some surplus funds and are looking to invest in a property purely for generating rental income , your chance for better yield requires you to educate yourself about the right opportunities and avoiding the wrong one properties. You should also know how the different rental markets (read ‘cities’) are performing across the country, and how you can make your potential rental income grow faster than the market trends. But first, you need to understand how the rental property business works in the first place. A central concept here is rental yield. Rental Yield What is rental yield of a property? In simple terms, rental yield is the ratio of annual rent of a property to the total cost of the property . For example, if your annual rental income is Rs. 1,20,000/- and the value of your house is Rs. 50 lakh, the rental yield will be 1,20,000/50,00,000, or 2.4%. Rental yields vary across the globe, but an a...