Key Points
BENGALURU: Average home prices in India are set to rise 7% this year and next, driven by purchases of luxury properties, according to analysts polled by Reuters who said the supply of affordable homes would continue to lag demand...
Barely dented by the Reserve Bank of India's 2-1/2 percentage points of interest rate rises from May 2022 to February 2023, the housing market has powered along with Asia's No. 3 economy, the fastest growing amongst major peers...
Home prices rose 4.3% in 2023, the fastest since 2018, according to Reuters calculations based on the RBI's House Price Index...
Poll medians from a Feb. 16- March 1 survey of 13 property market experts showed average home prices in India were forecast to rise 7.0% this year and next, little changed from 6.8% and 7.5% predicted in November...
In answer to a question on the gap between demand for affordable homes and the supply of them over the coming 2-3 years, five said it would remain the same, four said widen and two said narrow...
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