Interview with Prashant Solomon, Managing Director, Chintels India Ltd

NCR poses potential despite challenges Prashant Solomon, Managing Director, Chintels India Ltd, Hon. Treasurer, CREDAI NCR & Convenor CREDAI National (Media and PR Committee) expressed his views on National capital Region (NCR) development, new policies & regulations and his company’s growth strategy. The real-estate is the most sensitive of sectors to any new policies announced by the government for industries or individuals. Goods & Services Tax (GST) has given the much needed thrust and benefit to the manufacturing segment though some clarities are still needed in terms of real-estate.  Additionally, reduction in home loan interest rates will give a boost to end-user home buying thereby propelling the realty markets across India. Affordable housing getting infrastructure status has been the most positive development which may pull the real-estate sector out of its worst slump. It will also give developers easier access to institutional funding, leading to consolidation in the sector. There should also be provision for allocated affordable real-estate zones with tax rebates for builders investing in such projects. In my opinion, REITs should expand in to the residential sector as well so that developers can get the much needed funding for projects. RERA is definitely a step in the right direction of bringing transparency in the realty sector. But, the large number of compliances & information now required from the developers has slowed down the real-estate business. In Haryana lack of RERA website has created problems for developers in getting RERA registration and without that they are unable to sell their projects. The other obstacles facing the sector are expensive funding that is also hard to get and lack of infrastructure development. Also, most of the developers are still using traditional methods of construction and management. We need to adopt modern systems and approach towards buildings and development Ease of doing business, single window clearances and faster approvals are the much pending demands of the real-estate stake holders. Read full interview here: http://realtyplusmag.com/ncr-poses-potential-despite-challenges/