{"id":2311,"date":"2017-02-10T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:00:15","slug":"indian-budget-benefit-property-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/10\/indian-budget-benefit-property-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian budget to benefit property industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India\u2019s property sector is set to benefit from the country\u2019s recent federal budget, which was presented on February 1st.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The budget has increased confidence in the sector, which had dropped since India\u2019s demonetisation move in November, when the Indian government banned 1,000- and 500-rupee banknotes in a bid to tackle the country\u2019s problem with black money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DSbzplVFz2\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/03\/property-boom-dubai\/\">Property boom in Dubai<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Property boom in Dubai&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/03\/property-boom-dubai\/embed\/#?secret=1ATD9Ik8Du#?secret=DSbzplVFz2\" data-secret=\"DSbzplVFz2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shishir Baijal, the chairman and managing director of Knight Frank India, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This has been one of the path-breaking budgets with far-reaching changes especially for the real estate sector. This has come at a time when the beleaguered sector has been looking at measures to boost the sentiments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to moves to help enhance the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/06\/lack-affordable-homes-stay\/\" target>affordable housing sector<\/a> (including granting it infrastructure status to improve access to cheaper financing), there were a few other announcements made during the budget that are expected to have a positive effect on the property industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Increased focus on infrastructure \u2013 especially construction of new roads, improvement of existing roads and coastal connectivity \u2013 will go a long way to benefit the real estate sector,&#8221; continued Baijal.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Jaitley, India\u2019s finance minister, has also announced the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board, a bureaucratic agency that was complicating the process for foreign direct investment (FDI). It is anticipated that this move will also benefit the real estate sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xBVvAeZgL1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/23\/prices-set-rise-singapore\/\">Prices set to rise in Singapore<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prices set to rise in Singapore&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/23\/prices-set-rise-singapore\/embed\/#?secret=rOzmphsXE9#?secret=xBVvAeZgL1\" data-secret=\"xBVvAeZgL1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While a clear policy outline is yet to be revealed, this is another positive step to liberalise FDI policy framework and ease regulatory hurdles in attracting investments,&#8221; commented Anshuman Magazine, the chairman of CBRE for India and South-east Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian property stocks are already increasing as a result of the positive budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s property sector is set to benefit from the country\u2019s recent federal budget, which was presented on February 1st. 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