Dallas, TX -- (SBWire) -- 10/09/2010 -- Of all the countries whose real estate sectors are reviewed by BMI, few are experiencing economic conditions quite as promising for real estate companies as India. Thanks in part to a favourable monsoon, economic growth is accelerating. Lending by banks is increasing. Investment in infrastructure will, or at least should, facilitate urban development.

We interviewed in-country sources at the beginning of 2010 and again in the middle of the year. In early 2010 – in spite of widespread optimism about the prospects for 2011-2012 – it was clear that India’s developers faced difficulties. Across the five cities where we interviewed in-country sources – Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore – rentals slumped in 2009. In some cases this was because of the perceived risk of a recession in India (or, in the case of Bangalore, a real recession in the export markets served by businesses in that city). In other cases, contradictory government policies posed additional problems.

Further, it was clear that, for the office and retail sub-sectors especially, there was a massive over-supply of new commercial property. Our sources suggested that this problem may be less serious in new suburbs of Hyderabad and the National Capital Region, where new residential ‘colonies’ are attracting commercial developments.

A major finding from our interviews in mid-2010 is that the process of adjustment has already begun. Rents have continued to soften through the first half of this year. A slight increase in yields – across most of the sub-sectors – suggests that capital values have slipped by a little more than rents. However, there is no evidence of distress selling by market participants.

We had previously expected that yields would start rising gradually from 2012. Given that the process of adjustment – in response to the over-supply of commercial property – is well under way, we now look for general stability in yields over the coming years. Rents and capital values should, in general, move in tandem.

Key Features Of This Report

This is the latest edition of a new series of industry reports published by BMI that seeks to identify the key dynamics of the real estate sectors of 44 countries around the world, some of which are developed and some of which are, in every sense, emerging markets. The questions that we seek to answer for each country remain as follows: What are the main issues for actors in and around real estate development in the country concerned, over both the long and the short term? What are the main constraints that they face? What are the key insights to be gleaned by comparing the real estate sector of a country with its regional peers?

In Q3 we introduced a very substantial improvement to our reports. We incorporated data and qualitative observations provided to us by commercial real estate agents operating in the countries we survey. As a result we have gained a much clearer picture of the balance between demand and supply in each of three main sub-sectors – office, retail and industrial. We have also introduced a new approach to the forecasting of rental yields, which is discussed in the methodology section of this report.

In Q4, we have incorporated a lot of new data in relation to rents and yields in 2010. We gained this data through a new round of interviews with our in-country sources in mid-2010. In some cases, the latest information from our sources has caused us to make significant revisions to our forecasts for 2011-2014. We asked our sources to indicate what growth in rents is likely for 2011. We explain their answers in the Forecast Scenarios.

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