Mumbai Property Registrations Jump to 10-year High in July
Mumbai BMC region recorded a 10-year high in property registrations at 9,037 units in July 2021, said a report by real estate consultancy Knight Frank. This marked a sequential growth of 15 per cent over June 2021 and up 239 per cent on annual basis in comparison to 2,662 units in July 2020. The registrations for July 2021 were also 57 per cent higher compared to the same month in pre-pandemic period of July 2019. In December 2020, Maharashtra government, had granted a four-month-long leeway to homebuyers for registering a property after the payment of stamp duty in order to prevent crowding of registration offices. This ensured that homebuyers who had purchased residences and paid stamp duty on or before March 31, 2021, have maximum window of 4 months till July 31, 2021 from the respective date of payment of stamp duty for registering their apartment. Before this leeway was permitted, for over 95 per cent of registrations in the recent years, the difference between date of payment of stamp duty and date of registration was less than 10 days and for less than 2 per cent of the registrations, the difference was over 30 days," Knight Frank noted in its report. A closer look at the property registrations data showed that 53 per cent of registrations in July 2021 were from new residential sales concluded in the month, recording a sharp improvement compared to 42 per cent in June 2021, 29 per cent during May 2021 and 7 per cent during April 2021. At 4,824 units, the number of new apartments sold during July 2021 were 45 per cent higher compared to 3,300 units sold in June 2021, 207 per cent higher compared to 1,554 units sold in May 2021 and 573 per cent higher compared to 710 units sold during April 2021. While registrations in July 2021 are at a decadal high (for the month of July), it is important to note that 53 per cent of registrations, or 4,824 units, were new sales, which is around 84 per cent of July 2019 average, implying that we are yet to cross sales of pre-Covid levels," the report pointed out.
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