Yet this is no fast burn – earlier this month wealth management group Merrill Lynch predicted a 700 percent increase in the Indian property market by 2015. While a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs suggests India could overtake Britain as the world’s fifth largest economy within a decade, and by mid-century, may even surpass the US to become the world’s second biggest economy after China.
India is already achieving GDP of US $1.50 trillion. And bolstered by strong domestic demand, economic growth, corporate strength and huge spending on infrastructure, India’s property market is expected to be relatively unaffected by the global credit crisis.
This strong economic growth is partly a reflection of India’s unique demographics;
It is this huge mass of ambitious young Indians who are rejecting the traditions of living at home in favour of their own property. And with the number of people earning more than $5,000 a year set to double to around 20 million in the next two years, demand for small apartments is expected to mushroom.
Investment property specialists David Stanley Redfern Ltd have already sold all small apartments in their Mountain View development in Rudrapur. Similar apartments in Orchard View are set to move quickly as investors seek to benefit from an area hoping to attract just some of the 2.5 million students that graduate from Indian universities each year.
Designated a Special Economic Zone by the government, the massive industrial estate on the outskirts of Rudrapur is home to global corporations and an ever increasing number of factories. When the 450th one is completed in December 2008, around 50,000 people will be employed directly and a further 250,000 indirectly. Those moving to Rudrapur will need rental accommodation, and Ocean View’s affordable apartments have been built to provide just that.
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