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Even today, a majority of Indians still find it hard to fulfill the desire to own a home. Surprisingly, this is a decade when luxury items like LED TVs and smartphones are becoming affordable and housing is getting more and more expensive. Many people in India still live in below average standard homes. This does …
Over the past decade, the construction industry has been hit hard by economic slowdowns and extreme market fluctuations. Construction and infrastructure play a significant role in a country’s economy, but rigid contractual policies and very high construction costs (among other factors) have been constricting the growth of this sector in India. Needless to say, growth …
When we talk of affordable housing in India, we are not talking merely about cheap homes. If that were the only parameter to define, affordable housing, then houses in villages or in utterly remote outskirts with no back links to the main cities would qualify as ‘affordable’. Needless to say, homes in such locations tend …
There are good reasons why Chakan in Pune’s PCMC region has evolved into the thriving hub it is today. To begin with, this area enjoys superlative locational advantages, being in the middle of Maharashtra’s Golden Triangle and well-connected to Pune, Nasik and Mumbai. The growth of the IT, manufacturing, automobile and services industries in this …
At a rough estimate, India’s overall housing shortage as of today stands at about 22 million homes. Within this, the shortage of affordable housing – homes with price tags in the range of Rs. 10-20 lakh – accounts for a very sizable share. The supply of homes which people with less-than-spectacular financial resources but who …