Amalgamation of diverse workstyles, will enhance productivity & output

27 Nov 2021 CW Team

The year 2020 presented challenges no one could have anticipated. The national lockdown brought all economic activities to a standstill. We saw some recovery in the latter part of 2020 and early 2021. But then came the devastating second wave in March 2021. With all our learnings from 2020, we were able to prevent a further slowdown in 2021. However, it took all the time till July 2021 to see an improvement in the real-estate sector.

Recovery in the market has already begun and the year 2022 will set the stage for growth Confidence in the market is being led by fast rate of vaccination, growth in economic activity and fall in COVID cases. India has given 1 billion vaccine doses. Next, economic activity is in full gear with GDP growth pegged at 9.5 per cent for 2021-22. Things are looking bright for the economy and this will percolate down to the Indian real-estate sector too.

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