Koyambedu bus terminus is getting too congested… more buses than what can be parked and general traffic congestion is causing a lot of traffic woes. CMDA’s announcement of a new and larger bus terminus at Vandalur is great news. A bit late, but better late than never. It sticks to our tradition of waiting till a problem happens and then solving it. Just as how we build flyovers at traffic junctions way after they become highly congested. In any case, this is a much needed progress.
This project should also see Vandalur properties appreciate a bit as infrastructure projects are main drivers for property appreciation in India.
This week, Live Mint (a WSJ partner in India) had an article detailing the nuances with selling property inherited by NRIs.
For the complete article, see link at the end of this post. In short, here’s what needs to be done…
Rest is the regular sales process of hiring an agent and finding buyers.
Read the entire article at Mint How NRIs can sell inherited property in India?
Just when everyone is predicting that property price in Chennai would plateau due to the global economic slowdown, Chennai ignores predictions and shows increase in price.
Apartment prices in almost every part of chennai is going up. Here are some of the comps…
Adyar
June 2012: Rs. 12.5k per Square foot (SF)
Jan 2013: 15k per SF
Sholinganallur
June 2012: 4.8k per SF
Jan 2013: 5.3k per SF
Medavakkam
June 2012: 4.3k per SF
Jan 2013: 4.7k per SF
We do see a slowdown is sales volume for the past year or so, but the price only keeps going up.
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While property prices keep going up in OMR, rental of certain type of homes is not catching up because of huge supply.
6 to 8 months ago, apartment prices in Sholinganallur was around 4000 to 4200 per SF, today it is hovering around 5000 per SF. Similarly, another of our favorite location, Medavakkam, has seen prices go up from 3600 per SF to 4500 per SF in the last one year.
Plenty of builders are creating a huge supply of homes in OMR, which puts pressure on rental rates. 2BHKs are able to hold their rent quite well because of their demand since most renters are usually young and have smaller families, so they prefer a 2BHK. But 3BHKs are having to drop their rent significantly to get renters. In many complex, the rental difference between 2 and 3BHKs is just 1k. This situation will change, but only when the supply/demand situation reverses.
National Housing Bank, a unit of Reserve Bank of India, which tracks housing prices in major cities has cited that there was a 2.8% increase in housing prices in the 1st quarter of 2012 (Jan to Mar) compared to the previous quarter (Oct – Dec 2011)
http://nhb.org.in/Events/Events.php#residexmay2012
Chennai also ranks no. 1 in price appreciation since 2007, the date when National Housing Bank started tracking housing prices in major cities.
The finance minister threw a wrench in the works for real estate by
1. Increasing service tax by 2%
Due to this increase, the corresponding increase in home price is expected to be around 0.5%
2. Introducing TDS of 1% on transfer of immovable property
TDS hits you when the value of property that is transacted goes beyond a threshold of 50 lakhs in urban areas and 20 lakhs in rural.
Guess who the builders are going to transfer the increased cost to…