The real estate market of India is becoming a hot selling property and is attracting the attention of investors as they are getting huge profits and high returns on their investments. The real estate in India may still be a fragmented industry with high transaction costs and an absence of complete transparency, but it is whetting the appetites of domestic and overseas investors.
Seeing this current trend one can say that India is going in a right direction and soon more and more people will be coming forward to go for investment property in India. India is a country that offers a suitable environment providing maximum benefits to the investors. People are more attracted towards India for the real estate investment due to the fact that India is one of the largest democratic countries in the world with good governing system equally supported by strong and transparent legal system. It also provides legal protection for intellectual property rights.
Nowadays, apart from real estate investment property in India no other business is lucrative and revenue generating. Investment in properties includes hotels, resorts, hospitals, educational institutions and housing and commercial premises. The government has reduced the minimum mandatory area to allow FDI in real estate sector from 100 acres to 25 acres. Nowadays more numbers of investment property are available in the real estate market with investment securities. Real estate investment comprises more return on investment and that is the reason why most of the people negotiate the real estate investing contract very quickly. The real estate sector in India is attracting huge investments. Private equity players are considering big investments, banks are giving loans to builders, and financial institutions are floating real estate funds.
The real estate sector in India is attracting huge investments. Private equity players are considering big investments, banks are giving loans to builders, and financial institutions are floating real estate funds. With 100 per cent FDI in real estate now being allowed, overseas developers are also closely looking at the market. International investors like the US-based Warburg Pincus, Blackstone Group, Broadstreet, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund (MSREF), Columbia Endowment Fund, JP Morgan Partners and Amaranth Advisors have been found to show interest.
Indian institutions, such as HDFC, ICICI Venture and Kotak Mahindra are launching funds to invest in real estate. Most of these funds have been meeting investment bankers, banks and housing finance companies in India to get a feel of the market. The developers are looking to tie up with Indian companies, while the private equity funds seek to test the market with small investments in big projects.
