Apartment Funding (AF) is a fund-raising structure where the involved investors acquire real estate units at deeply discounted prices.

With the implementation of RERA, the residential real estate industry is witnessing significant changes on the ground. The Act strictly prohibits builders from advertising their under-construction projects while allowing the freedom to attract buyers for projects that have occupation certificates (OC ready). With the new rules, buyers are naturally showing increasing interest in such properties, which are essentially ready to move in.

The Indian real-estate market is going through exciting times: Sales have started picking up and the rental market is growing at a healthy rate too. A survey in 2009 pointed out that almost 35 per cent of urban families were living in rental homes; another survey in 2011 indicated that a massive 24.7 million families lived on rent.

A recent ICRA report on ‘Trends in Housing Credit’ reveals that the total housing credit growth has slowed to 16 per cent in 2016-17 from 19 per cent in 2015-16, with the overall housing credit standing at Rs 14.4 lakh crore as on March 31, 2017 ( Rs 12.4 lakh crore as on March 31, 2016).

By now, it has become quite clear that as a generation, millennials have a very different take on homeownership than their parents and grandparents did. This trend has been studied extensively in the West, but it has made itself quite obvious in India too. How do millennials view home purchase differently in general, and in India in particular?

Affordable housing schemes for the middle and lower income groups are finally on a serious growth curve in 2017, with huge demand in both segments now also being met with increasing supply. It may seem strange that massive demand and massive unsold residential inventory can coexist, but this is in fact the result of pricing mismatch.

As the government rolled out the Goods & Services Tax (GST) on July 1, 2017, it is set to bring about fundamental shifts in taxation across sectors, including real estate and infrastructure.

The favourable policy announced by the current government of owing affordable houses has got an upward shift over the past three years. The motto of announcing the policies such as Housing for all by 2022, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna (PMAY) is to give push to affordable houses so that people can buy their dream home at affordable pricing.

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