India Real Estate Report Q3 2010

India Real Estate Report Q3 2010 ; Of all the countries whose real estate sectors are reviewed , few are experiencing economic conditions quite as promising for real estate companies as India. We forecast that overall GDP growth will accelerate from 7.0% to 7.8% over the coming year. The increase will be driven by domestic demand. Lending by India's banks is increasing again. Massive investment in infrastructure will, or at least should, facilitate urban development. After a poor monsoon and harvest in 2009, the fortunes of India's rural sector should also improve this year.
Nevertheless, India's developers still face difficulties. Across the five cities where we interviewed incountry sources - Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore - rentals slumped in 2009. In some cases this was because of the perceived risk of a recession in India (or, in the case of Bangalore, a real recession in the export markets served by businesses in that city). In other cases, contradictory government policies posed additional problems.