Demonetization has had a considerable impact on real estate sector. However, larger, organized players who conduct their business transparently like Marathon Group were less impacted.

ACC registered robust revenue growth across categories and geographies, with an increased focus on premium products and a targeted approach to customers and markets, delivering strong top-line growth.

MMR seems to be currently re-orienting to the prevailing market conditions. The days of pre-launches and soft launches have faded away and the developers are now approaching the market with their new avatar of financial discipline, accountability and transparency.

Budget 2018-19 focus on infrastructure and the Smart Cities initiative is a positive move for the real estate sector and Pune in specific. The Smart Cities Mission is an ambition to develop 100 cities across India that would also harness the Information Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities.

Each of us crave for a sweet and lovely home but not all can afford it. The real estate prices have skyrocketed and have gone pass over the common man’s capacity to own a dream home.

The primary issue concerning policy reforms like RERA & GST was the lack of clarity on how they would impact the country’s real estate sector and the buyers/investors thereof. This has had a profound bearing on the stakeholders, as property markets are largely sentiment-driven.

With implementation of RERA, REIT and GST last year, the real estate sector continues to be in the limelight this year. Now, the builders are looking forward to the upcoming budget, where they are expecting certain announcements to provide impetus to the sector.

India’s real estate industry can hope for an impressive turnaround in 2018 as the October-December 2017 quarter witnessed an average price increase of 3.1% in 46% of the 750 localities across 14 major cities, reports Magicbricks PropIndex, the flagship quarterly report of India’s No.1 property site.

The Government has really done well in identifing certain sectors which need thrust and rapid growth. The RERA bill and housing for all schemes, the concretization of National Highways NH, development of ports, SEZ and improvising State Highways and its links to NH great intiatives and we see a huge demand for cement in the coming years.