Real estate
in India is the second largest employing sector including construction and
facilities management. Real estate investment in India is primarily a long term
investment providing low liquidity to an investor. Investors can look at
renting out their property to bring consistency in revenues.
Indian
real estate has huge potential in almost every sector especially commercial,
residential, retail, industrial, hospitality, healthcare etc. However, the
major developments in this sector in India are mainly the townships,
residential units, shopping malls, offices, retail stores and commercial
complexes.
In today's tough market, the Internet is playing a
huge role in the buying and selling of and is an almost limitless source of
information. However, it does not replace the experience and knowledge of an
experienced professional.
Real estate has traditionally been an avenue for
considerable investment per se and investment opportunity for High Net-worth
Individuals, Financial institutions as well as individuals looking at viable
alternatives for investing money among stocks, bullion, property and other
avenues.
Money
invested in property for its income and capital growth provides stable and
predictable income returns, similar to that of bonds offering both a regular
return on investment, if property is rented as well as possibility of capital
appreciation. The available investment opportunities can broadly be categorized
into residential, commercial office space and retail sectors.
Although serious supply-demand imbalances have
continued to plague markets into the 2000s in many areas, the mobility of
capital in current sophisticated financial markets is encouraging to
developers. The loss of tax-shelter markets drained a significant amount of
capital from and, in the short run, had a devastating effect on segments of the
industry. However, most experts agree that many of those driven from
development and the finance business were unprepared and ill-suited as
investors.
Overall, Real Estate is expected to offer a good investment alternative to stocks and bonds over the coming years. This attractiveness of Real Estate Investment would be further enhanced on account of favourable inflation and low interest rate regime.