The official line of bullshit from Real Estate developers is that slowdown is only in residential segment; commercial properties are still in demand. I said cheese off!
Now hear it from the Future Group CEO Kishor Biyani –
“We are about to conclude two deals where we do not have to pay rentals for three years” – No rentals for 3 years? Huh? Hear more. He only expects surplus space to be larger in 2009. Why shouldn’t he?
The man who started off India’s retail revolution can’t be wrong. I don’t want him to be. Real estate in a third world, infrastructure starved, poverty ridden country like India shouldn’t be costing so much. Look at wafer thin retail margins. Can they be housed in expensive real estate? I can understand if India’s IT vendors that once enjoyed a margin of 35% did that. Now dollar has tanked and their margins have also been hit. Uncertainty looms everywhere. Why should real estate be any different?
The land prices/rentals have to sink, otherwise the structures they erect over the land will. You like that?
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