Real estate in Mumbai to go through a price correction!

Talk of a correction in pricing of property in Mumbai has been doing the rounds constantly nowadays. Given the fact that the supply-demand gap has increased and there are more homes than the people of Mumbai require, several properties around the cities are lying empty and unoccupied. Developers have realized the need to pull down the prices to have these homes sold as soon as possible.

Today, some of the least expensive homes are priced at nearly Rs. 10,000 per sq ft, in the heart of the city. Prices drop as one moves towards the outskirts and further north of Mumbai. A 2BHK home in Mumbai costs approximately Rs. 1.5 crore, making such property accessible only to people earning more than Rs. 35 lakh a year! Abhishek Kiran Gupta, Real Estate Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, says, “This trend is unsustainable and prices in Mumbai will have to correct and remain subdued over the next 2-3 years. This will allow improvement in affordability as income levels catch up with residential prices. Most of the new launches during Jan-Mar 2013 have been at a discount to average market prices.”

Also, developers have come up with better ways to attract new customers and are constantly offering discounts on property prices in Mumbai. Builders have begun offering discounts through 20:80 schemes, stamp duty waivers, floor rise waivers and other such crowd-pullers. Pankaj Kapoor, MD at real estate firm Liases Foras adds, “Prices and land values have to go through a correction in Mumbai. Ready-to-move-in property is cheaper than those under construction. If you look at the secondary market, price correction has already taken place as resale apartments are being offered at least 15-20 per cent below the market price.”
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Property in Mumbai to be subjected to a price correction soon!

For those picking their pockets to buy real estate in Mumbai, here’s news that’ll give you a little respite. Property rates in Mumbai have stopped rising and a price correction could indeed be just around the corner! As per reports, prices dropped 2-5% in the October-December period from the previous quarter, giving prospective home buyers in Mumbai an opportunity to purchase their dream home without blowing up their bank accounts!

Anshuman Magazine, the chairman and managing director for South Asia of the property consultancy CBRE, says, “Pressure is building up. We are likely to see a correction soon if the sentiment remains the same.” A decrease in property sales is termed as one of the reasons for a decrease in price. Reports by CBRE also state that a few real estate launches in Mumbai have started off at lower prices, causing competition to significantly lower price tags to keep up with the pressure. Also, price correction has indeed occurred in some areas of Mumbai while the rest have remained torpid.

There have been indications of sales of property in Mumbai decreasing due to high interest rates and an impending economic slowdown. Anuj Puri, the chairman of the property advisor Jones Lang La-Salle India said, “Developers with large projects in Mumbai are offering lower prices. These prices, which went as discounts earlier, were always available for investors and are now being offered to retail customers too.”

And it isn’t just property advisors who are heralding a correction in prices of property in Mumbai. Prominent bankers have mentioned the same too, confirming a drop in real estate prices in the near future. This perhaps is one of the best times to invest wisely in real-estate and buy property in Mumbai, before the prices begin soaring through roof-tops yet again!

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