Sunday, October 14, 2007

High Growth in Rental Property Market in India

Rental market soaring high and posing to be the most dynamic sector in Indian business scenario. Real Estate seemed to be the best investment opportunity with a growth rate that was even higher than the growth rate of our economy. But then started the realty blues, correction in prices, fear of the real estate being unreal and a bubble being on the verge of a burst. And now there is a new wave with which real estate may surge once again, The Rental Property Market.

At present the country's commercial and residential real estate rental market has a price tag of approx $50 billion, and is expected to grow 25% on a yearly basis. There are numerous factors that contribute to this incredible situation in rental property market. Major factors that are responsible for bringing about this change include growth in information technology/information technology-enabled services industry like BPOs as they are renting large commercial spaces in order to expand their business process in India. Apart from this, emergence of India as an important investment hub in the world market, growth in foreign direct investments and simultaneous growth in the purchasing power of the Indian middle class plays a pivotal role.

With our industrial sector growing super fast, youth being more career conscious and BPOs churning uncountable employment opportunities we find brilliant talents from all over the country migrating to big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. People coming to these places in large numbers have created troubles for required accommodation in these big cities and this is time when renting property comes into the scene. In order to overcome this acute scarcity for good accommodation in the big cities and surrounding areas which can meet the requirements of the population coming to the cities for employment, people began renting their properties and soon realized that it is an amazing source for income as well. Also for young people despite of the handsome salaries and attractive prerequisites they earn owing a property is not a matter of fun and hence the option with which they are left with is to go for rented accommodation. Moreover with people aspiring rich lifestyle and an accommodation that matches their taste further drives the prices of rental property up the wall and makes it a lucrative business opportunity.

At this point it can be very conveniently said that rental property market has great potential and can turn out to be a reliable source of income generation.

The advantages of investing in rental property market can be summarized as below:

  • Demand for accommodation is ever increasing and people are willing to pay huge amounts for an accommodation that matches their taste and meets all the mentioned specifications.
  • In case immediate selling of any property is not possible, renting the accommodation is a good business and the returns are amazingly high.
  • Only apartments in multistoried buildings are not in demand but people seeking independent houses for rent are also many. As a result investment in building independent houses for renting purpose is also a money-spinning business with high rate of return.

This new trend is creating a wave in the RE industry in India.

1 comment:

Realty Rider said...

Hey Karan nice to see your comments on the leasing part of the rising indian real estate market...mine observation differs a bit from yours ....instead of the boom in indian real estate market i have seen many people unhappy with the performance of the Real Estate market...a lot many people after doing a careful study of the market parked their money into the market which is not at all appreciating.....so many loops are dere....i would appreciate if you can talk about some of them in your next post....along with the list of donts and things which one should be cautious of before investing....