Investing In Urban Residential Real Estate In India
May 20, 2012 22 Comments
The travails of the Western world might put a question mark on the expression “as safe as houses”. but in India, urban real estate continues to make sense as an investment option.
Here are the reasons:-
First:In the US, the average members in a household are 2.6. In India, there is an estimated shortage of 21 million housing units and unless there is a dramatic increase in supply, the shortage is not likely to come down because there is a sizeable young population adding to the demand .Also Indians will continue to migrate to cities and 50% of the country will be urbanized by 2044.As families often resort to step-migration many TierII towns will do as well as the major cities as investment destinations.
Second:The high rates of inflation and wage rises are bound to make houses more expensive to build in future.So residential real estate investments are bound to hold their value and possibly continue to give good capital gains. Read more of this post
Sooner or later everyone in India has to come to terms with the price of houses.Perhaps the person might be thinking of buying a house outright or on EMI for use by himself/herself or family.Perhaps it is a second home for convenience.Maybe the person is planning on buying a house as an investment or even trying to fund a retirement by a reverse mortgage.
First, remember Benjamin Graham’s mantra “The essence of portfolio management is the management of RISKS, not the management of RETURNS. Well-managed portfolios start with this precept.”
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