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Economic Survey 2018: Home sales at 5-year low, FDI needed for revival

Sales during the first half declined by over 38 per cent when compared with the same period a year earlier, while unit launches fell by over 56 per cent during the same period 
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Union budget 2018: India’s real estate sector hit rock bottom, falling to a five-year low in 2017-17, and a change in market sentiment to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) would be required for a revival of the beleaguered sector, the Economic Survey 2017-18 notes.
While residential real estate market saw sales of only 58,000 units in the first half of 2017, new home sales fell to a five-year low of about 101,850 units during this period. Sales during the first half declined by over 38 per cent when compared with the same period a year earlier, while unit launches fell by over 56 per cent during the same period, the Survey said.
According to the Survey, the share of real estate sector, including ownership of dwellings, accounted for 7.7 per cent in India’s overall gross value added in 2015-16. “The growth of this sector decelerated in the last three years from 7.5 per cent in 2013-14 to 6.6 per cent in 2014-15 and further to 4.4 per cent in 2015-16. This was mainly due to the growth of ownership of dwelling segment, having a share of 6.8 per cent in overall GVA, decelerating from 7.1 per cent in 2013-14 to 3.2 per cent in 2015-16. The growth of the construction sector, which includes buildings, dams, roads, bridges, etc, has decelerated to 1.7 per cent in 2016-17 from 5.0 per cent in 2015-16,” the Survey added.
Residential launches across top 14 cities of India during the first half of 2017 fell to the lowest in the past five years.
Admitting that the enforcement of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA), as well as the Goods and Service Tax (GST) – both of which were brought in last year – have had an effect on the residential market, the Survey said that it was just for a short period as these reforms helped in bringing down the unsold inventory levels from 888,373 units in April 2016 to about 807,903 units in October 2017....

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