Realty demand up in third quarter | zameensantosh's Blog

New Delhi: So is the demand for homes getting real again? It seems to be a mixed bag so far, report Neha Dewan & Anand Rawani. While developers are aggressively talking about a spurt in demand, industry experts and buyers attribute this ‘revival’ to the strong nexus between developers and intermediates. SundayET spoke to a cross section of developers, bankers, buyers and realty brokers to assess the ground situation. In fact, the demand in the residential segment for  Q3 of this calendar year remained marginally higher. However, leading developers said the growth has been optimistic and some even claimed a 30% rise in demand in these three months. The figures, no doubt, look impressive. But there is a catch. Industry experts and buyers say that this business is mainly the result of a strong developer-intermediary network.

Residential real estate prices are going up. In the last three months, prices of affordable apartments have appreciated by around 10% across the country.

"With improvement in the sentiment in the economy, transactions in the affordable range of residential real estate have gone up. This has made developers to increase prices by 5% to 10% in the last three months," said Anshuman Magazine, MD of real estate consultancy firm CB Richard Ellis, South Asia.