The residential sector looks forward to further support beyond the mainstay demands of industry status, easy availability of finance, and GST rates reduction. In the upcoming Union Budget 2022-23, some significant moves would help spur up residential demand include:
NCR saw housing sales increase by 73% - from 23,210 units in 2020 to 40,050 units in 2021. With this performance, NCR comes second only to MMR in terms of sales during the whole of 2021.
Of the four quarters, Q4 2021 was by far the best, with housing sales in the top 7 cities attaining a new high of approx. 90,860 units in Q4 2021. This was the highest quarterly sales performance since 2015."
Reviewing the overall performance of the Indian residential real estate market in 2021 shows a definite upswing. Between Jan - Sep 2021, 1.63 lakh units of new residential supply were added across the top 7 Indian cities - 27% higher than 2020 full year supply - and 1.45 lakh units were sold - 5% higher than in the whole of 2020.
Chennai's residential market not only remained resilient post-COVID-19 but recorded a significant recovery from the second half of 2020 onwards. The mid and premium housing segments saw substantial demand and supply growth in pandemic times, reveals the FICCI-ANAROCK report 'Tamil Nadu - Growth Engine of India.'
The quality of the site office can lead to better per-unit revenue for the developer. Even in new markets, the combination of a developer's brand and an excellent site/sales office can deliver adequate sales numbers even without show flats.
Land-starved MMR saw 11 land deals involving 768 acres of area – a 64% share of the total 1,205 acres of planned residential development across the top cities. NCR came a distant second with 4 separate deals
In the approx. 4.5 years since RERA was fully notified, 71,307 projects have been registered under it across the country as of November 2021. Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Karnataka lead in project registrations to date with 31,664, 9,272, and 4,497 projects registered respectively.
