Affordable Homes Sales Sees Spike In NCR
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Affordable housing projects continue to be the dominant segment in the NCR market as 87% of the new launches were concentrated in the less than Rs 45-lakh price bracket during the October to December 2020 quarter, according to Real Insight Q4 2020, a quarterly analysi
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Jan 15, 2021 4:11 AM
Affordable housing projects continue to be the dominant segment in the NCR market as 87% of the new launches were concentrated in the less than Rs 45-lakh price bracket during the October to December 2020 quarter, according to Real Insight Q4 2020, a quarterly analysis of India’s eight prime residential markets by real estate brokerage firm PropTiger.com. The fact that launches in the NCR market in Q4 have seen an improvement not just over Q3 numbers but also over Q4 2019 figures, is definitely a promising sign. Gurgaon real estate market’s performance in the last quarter has stood out in this region, showcasing a 37% growth QoQ and a contribution of 57% to the overall sales during the last quarter. Despite the lower-than-normal sales traffic in the real estate sector, the affordable segment has emerged as the hot cake for the wannabe homebuyers. Post-Unlock, the segment witnessed improvement in the number of visits to the site, and the properties sold immediately first because of the pent-up demand and realization of people to own their home. The boost in sales got further boost when home loan interest rates came down to around 7 per cent. According to the report, as against 940 units in Q3, a total of 5,120 units were launched in the NCR during the Q4. This is also much higher than the 2,501 fresh launches seen in Q4 2019. However, the NCR contributed to only 9% of the overall fresh supply nationally, during the December quarter. The RBI was of the view that the Indian economy will register positive growth in the October-to-December festive quarter after six months of contraction if the economic upturn generated after lockdown sustained till the end of the year. This has proven to be true, with a good amount of buyer’s interest being driven towards affordable housing. Affordable is also gaining interest from investors, especially in the newly developing peripheral region of New Gurugram. The report also says that the new supply across various segments in the region has primarily been concentrated in Gurgaon’s Sector 95, Sector 89, Sector 37D and Sector 79. The remaining new launches were spread across Sector 19 in Noida, Indirapuram in Ghaziabad and Sector 85 in Faridabad.
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