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Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt. Ltd.

Independent Non-brokerageReal Estate Research Company

Housing Charter 2018

The

CNBC Aawaz and Liases Foras

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CONTENTS

01 MARKET TRENDS

02 WHY IS THE RECOVERY SO SLOW?

03 URGENT NEED TO FIX INEFFICIENCIES

04 EFFORTS TAKEN SO FAR

05 WHAT ELSE COULD BE DONE?

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2017 has been the year of reforms for the real estate industry. Since the

introduction of Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) Act and Goods and

Services Tax (GST) the real estate business has never been as usual. The

policies have forced developers to readjust their business models from a

finance and marketing perspective. Through these teething troubles the

market slowed down - but it has not tumbled. It is, in fact, beginning to show

signs of recovery. However the recovery is slow and needs match up to

urgent need for affordable housing in the country.

Productive land and rational taxation systems are crucial to increase the

supply of housing. But market inefficiencies, speculative accumulation, and

lack of transparency in land deals have inflated the cost of urban land in the

recent years. On the taxation front GST has tried to resolve the inefficiencies

of double taxation, but there remain inconsistencies and confusions about

its application.

The 2018 CNBC Charter notes the trends in the market and deliberates on

further measures that can help stimulate the supply of affordable housing.

PREFACE

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MARKET TRENDS Data from Liases Foras’s quarterly surveys indicate that the market is slowly recovering. In Tier 1 cities, sales

have increased and prices have stagnated or marginally decreased. It is the cautious end users rather than

the exuberant investors that are driving the recovery process. Increase in income levels and availability of

funds from PMAY has helped some consumers bridge the affordability gap, this might be responsible for the

increase in sales. Developers who have targeted the priority sector have managed to sell more homes.

Improvement in Tier 1 Sales

Financial year comparisons between the last two years show a marginal improvement in sales. Overall,

sales in the country have grown at 8%. Tier 1 cities are fueling this growth. Metropolitan regions of Mumbai

and Delhi have emerged as top performers. Sales in these cities have increased by 25% and 19%

respectively. Tier 2 and 3 cities however, have shown a decline in sales

Table 1: All India Sales FY 17-18

Annual Sales Unsold

FY 17 FY 18 % Growth FY 17 FY 18 % Growth

All India 295,345 320,078 8% 1,123,128 1,129,499 1%

Tier 1 234,129 265,564 13% 953,856 929,415 -3%

Tier 2&3 61,216 54,514 -11% 1,69,272 2,00,084 18%

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Figure 1: Quarterly Sales (units)

Source: Liases Foras

Tier 2 13,695 14,152 13,529 12,476 14,039 14,470

Tier 1 50,398 60,807 64,841 64,756 66,866 69,101

All India Months_x000d_Inventory 53 45 43 43 41 41

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Priority Sector Leads Sales:

Financial Year comparisons for Tier 1 cities show that sales have grown at 25% in the priority segment. The

luxury segment has also shown a growth of 16%. This growth is largely driven by discounts and new

launches.

Figure 3: Sales by Segment for Tier 1 cities

Source: Liases Foras

FY 17 55,417 71,049 68,554 25,552 13,557

Fy 18 69,342 74,585 76,736 29,603 15,298

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merely dropped by 3%.

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Figure 4: Sales by Segment for Tier 2 cities

Source: Liases Foras

FY 17 19,971 20,637 15,900 3,684 1,024

Fy 18 19,356 17,705 13,569 2,984 900

This is not a surprising trend. As per the report of the technical group on urban housing shortage (2012)

there is a need for 18.78 million homes in urban India and 95% of the demand is from the EWS and LIG

segment. Given the volume of demand among the low-income groups, developers who have targeted the

priority sector are selling homes faster and in larger volumes.

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Rationalization in Size and Price

In order to sell at affordable rates, the developers have begun rationalizing sizes. The composite weighted

average size of newly launched units in the 8 Tier 1 cities, show a decline from 1254 sqft to 1084 sqft. This

trend is accompanied by a decline in price as well. This has led to a cumulative decline in the ticket size of

the unit of up to 20%.

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Figure 5: Decrease in Unit Size and Price of New Launches in India

Source: Liases Foras

Depending upon geography, prices in the country have marginally decreased or remained steady over the

past 5 years. The graph below shows an exuberant spike in housing prices between 2009-14 for all Tier 1

cities; especially MMR where prices escalated two fold. After this initial spike, the prices have marginally

decreased or stabilized. In the meanwhile incomes have grown, thus bridging the affordability gap for some

buyers.

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Figure 6: Price Trend in Tier 1 Cities

Source: Liases Foras

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Closing Affordability Gap

The graph below measures the housing price index against Liases Foras’s affordability index for service

sector employees in MMR. As is evident, stagnancy in the prices, increase in incomes and reduction in

interest rates has led to a decrease in the affordability gap. The affordability gap was at its maximum in

March 2014 (340 bases points). Since then it has gradually decreased. The gap between the two indices has

reduced to a level of 95 bases points as of March 2018. Availability of additional funds under PMAYs Credit

Linked Subsidy Scheme has further helped consumers bridge this gap. Developers are also enabling

consumers by offering them subvention schemes and freebies on maintenance and parking for the first few

years. For all these reasons, housing is potentially within the reach of the service class in the Mumbai

Metropolitan Region.

Figure 7: Affordability Gap for Service Sector in MMR

Source: Liases Foras

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WHY IS THE RECOVERY SO SLOW?In the past 7 years, unsold stock in the country has grown more than three times. Having a high supply of

units in the market need not be bad from a consumer point of view as it keeps prices in check. But in order to

prevent stagnation increase in sales needs to accompany the increase in housing stock.

Figure 8: Increase in Unsold Stock In Tier 1 Cities

Source: Liases Foras

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Inefficiencies in economic geography could explain why developers are left with large inventory of unsold

homes in spite of the high demand for housing in the country.

Market exuberance between 2005-2014 led to increase in urban land prices. During this period of 12 years

land prices have grown 9 times for tier 1 cities. Developers who wished to build homes at affordable prices,

moved further away from city centers in search of cheaper land. The diagram given below shows the

distance at which the maximum supply of homes less than 30 lakhs is available.

In Mumbai, there is a negligible supply of homes less than 30 lakh for the first 40 km of the city radius. For

Delhi NCR and Chennai this distance shrinks to 20 km. Bengaluru performs better as the distance further

shrinks to 10 km. (see graph below)

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Figure 9: Total Supply of homes under 30 lakh till March 2018 by distance

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While the city has expanded due to price, infrastructure hasn't kept

up. Neighbourhoods emerging in the peri urban areas often lack the

necessary physical and social infrastructure for daily needs and fast

and efficient transit connectivity to workspaces in the city. This

mismatch between job and housing locations pushes people who

buy peri urban homes to spend more time commuting. The value

proposition of ill equipped affordable housing in the peri urban areas

may simply not be worth the work travel time they impose on their residents. This makes peri urban housing

less desirable for the urban working population and could be the cause of slow sales despite the high demand

in the priority and affordable housing segment.

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While the city has expanded

due to price, infrastructure

hasn't kept up.

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URGENT NEED TO FIX INEFFICIENCIESThere is an urgent need to fix the affordable housing deficit. The Census tells us that, India is a young country,

riding on its demographic dividend. Approximately 35% of the urban population fell within the working age

group of 25 to 45 in 2016. But the window for this working age population to buy formal homes is limited.

Middle class working couples between the age of 25-45 have traditionally been the preferred target customers

for developers as this demographic begins to have the surplus income for downpayment and is eligible for

loans. Over the years the mortgage market has expanded to include the lower income groups as well. However,

in the past decade, the expansion in housing finance has been accompanied by an escalation in housing costs.

Consumers are holding off on buying homes as they are unaffordable or far away from their place of work. This

has led to an increase in the average age of the housing mortgage seeker. As per analysis done by Liases Foras,

the age of a mortgage seeker has risen from 31 in 2005 to 41 by 2016. Only 54% of target customers can seek

loans and the mortgage market is shrinking. As banks begin to factor

in mortality risks, interest rates on loans increase for older age

customers adding to the cost of housing.

If affordable housing market misses the demographic window there

is a risk, that in the future, India will have to provide for a large

population of retired senior citizens that are living in rental homes or

worse in slums or homeless conditions. Thus, there is an urgent need

for the economy to provide for jobs as well as affordable housing for

its working age population. The construction industry can play a key

role in providing for both these needs.

In order to provide homes at favorable locations and at affordable

rates, the government needs to take efforts to make land and finance

cheaper and more productive.

Figure 10: Age and Population Graph (2016)

Source: Census 2011 – extrapolated for 2016

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EFFORTS TAKEN SO FARGovernment policies like PMAY, RERA and GST have tried to address some of the hurdles mentioned in the

section above.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY): The government is working towards a daunting task of providing

affordable housing for all by 2022. As per estimates, there is a need for 18 million homes in urban India and

another 43.6 million homes in the rural areas. Although work has begun on approximately 20% of

requirement of homes in both the urban and rural category; only 2% homes in urban areas and 8.3 %

homes in rural areas have been completed.

Figure 11: PMAY Progress Report April 2018

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Housing for All (HFA)

PMAY Urban Progress

(Including RAY & CLSS)

No of

Household units

% of Urban

housing shortage

PMAY Gramin

Progress

No of Household

units

% of Rural housing

shortage

Urban Housing

Shortage 1,80,00,000

Rural Housing

Shortage 4,36,00,000

Houses involved 44,35,663 25% Total Target 94,69,918 22%

Houses grounded

forconstruction 19,30,844 11%

Total

Beneficiaries

Registered

97,26,560 22%

Houses Completed 4,00,074 2%Total House

Sanctioned 78,61,513 18%

Houses Occupied 3,55,741 2%Total House

Completed 36,34,865 8%

Source: http://ruraldiksha.nic.in/RuralDashboard/PMAYG_NEW.aspx & http://mohua.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/All_India_PMAY(U)(1).pdf

Real Estate Regulatory Act: RERA’s consumer protection policies have played an important role in reshaping

the industry from being investor driven to being end user driven. The policy protects consumers from

undisciplined builders by ensuring that projects are sold only after building permissions are attained and all

necessary disclosures pertaining to project launch, possession, amenities and facilities are provided.

Builders are expected to put 70% of the money collected from buyers into an escrow account to ensure that

consumer money for one project is not diverted into other projects. RERA has not been uniformly

implemented in all States. But there is a push from the center to see the implementation through without

dilutions.

Goods and Services Tax: The GST bill has tried to simplify the taxation process and prevent double taxation

that took place under the VAT system. GST on property is now 18%, the effective rate is 12%, thanks to

abatement provided on land value. Before GST, the rate was 10-15%. However reports[ See: Impact of GST

on residential markets, JLL, 2018] suggest that contractors and developers are still adjusting to the system

and compliance in the entire production chain is shoddy. It also points out that there remain some design

problems with respect to land. Only 1/3 of the contract value is deductible as land value for GST purposes.

However there are cities where land values are as much as 50-60% of the entire project cost. Once these

problems are resolved we might begin to see some benefits to the consumers.

Further government efforts to bring in the Benami property law can help check land corruptions. A multi

pronged approach that includes incentives through taxation, finance and planning along with punitive

measures for those who are speculating can help curb price escalations

1See: Impact of GST on residential markets, JLL, 2018

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WHAT ELSE COULD BE DONE? While taxation, consumer protection, and transparency are important issues being addressed by the

government; little has been done to address the issue of land and finance costs.

Given below is a the cost structure for housing development in Mumbai. It shows that the cost of land has

increased 9 times since 2005. Finance cost has increased close to 7 times. The percentage of developer

profit has shrunk. This is the primary reason why despite rising inventory prices are stagnant in the city.

Similar patterns can be seen in cities across the country.

In our previous charter on land, we have elaborated on the problem of land speculation and suggested

punitive taxation measures like the vacant land tax to curb the speculative bubbles that lock land expensive

and decrease its mobility for housing. In this charter we would like to explore the various incentive

measures that can decrease the cost of land and finance and make housing more affordable.

Period 2005 2007 2009 2012 2015 20172005 -2017

(Change Multiple)

Price in PSF 2,700 6,700 5,100 10,300 11,600 11,820 4.38

Developers Profit (in INR) 464 1,644 428 1,416 552 727 1.57

Finance Cost (in INR) 720 1,786 1,860 3,842 5,024 4,839 6.72

Land Cost @ Salaeable Area (in INR) 300 1,500 1,000 2,300 2,800 2,800 9.33

Approval Cost (in INR) 216 670 612 1,442 1,624 1,655 7.66

Construction Cost (in INR) 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,300 1,600 1,800 1.80

Construction and Sales Time (Years) 3 4 4 5 6 6 2.00

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Reduction in Land Price

As explained in the section above, price of land is pushing affordable housing to the outskirts of cities, but

due to inefficient transit to places of work and lack of social infrastructure, peri urban areas are not attractive

to all consumers as housing locations.

Provision of infrastructure and amenities in the peri urban areas can help increase the supply of suitable

land for affordable housing. The Central government has taken cognizance of the need for better

infrastructure and planning for our expanding cities. Starting with JNNURM & RAY to AMRUT & PMAY, there

has been a consistent effort by the Central government to allocate money for development of cities and

urban regions. However, there remain bottlenecks in comprehensive planning and governance that produce

disconnected undesirable development patterns.

Cities would benefit from planning at the regional level. Further, to ensure that decisions regarding land are

supported with efficient transportation, State governments could consider setting up of land and

transportation authorities that work in tandem. This can help ensure that when land is opened up through

highways, additional social, physical and transit infrastructure for affordable housing is planned along with it.

Providing higher FARs where infrastructure is available can help increase supply of housing in favorable

locations within a city. However, it’s important that the FAR should be provided at rational costs and

subjected to time bound delivery of project for which the additional FAR is given. Master Plans that monetize

additional FAR through an expensive premium, in turn risk making the housing supply from it expensive.

Making FAR time bound is important to prevent speculation on the increase.

Both measures, if planned strategically, can help increase the supply of housing in favorable locations and

bring down the cost of its development.

Improve Planning and Infrastructure:

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Reduce Other Costs

l Improve Planning and Infrastructure

l Increase FAR in strategic locations

l Allow private sector banks to finance

land for affordable housing

l Bring Taxation measures to curb

speculation

l Decrease GST on real estate

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Reduction in Other Costs

The RERA act ensures that developers adhere to a strict committed timelines. But in order to remain on the

right side of law most developers are committing to inflated timelines in their contracts. Affordable housing

production is time sensitive and must be produced and sold quickly to avoid speculation or cost over run. In

order to further incentivize the process, governments could lower taxation for projects produced within a

lower time frame.

Lower taxation for housing delivered on time:

As explained in the section above, housing prices have stagnated in the country. Sales are seeing an

improvement. The risk of price correction is minimal. Given that the market has endured shocks like

demonetization without a drop in price, our outlook is that the prices for the next two years will remain

stagnant. At this point the government can revise the loan to value for housing from 75% to 90% of the

contract value. This can help younger buyers buy homes quicker.

Increase Loan To Value for purchase of housing

Auto DCR systems have been implemented in many parts of the country, however, the approval process

has not undergone a dramatic change in time frame. Approval process is still long and tardy. In order to

expedite production and lower the cost of production, the cost of approvals and related timelines must be

reduced.

Expedite Approvals

Currently banks are not allowed to finance land purchase for real estate. Developers looking for loans for

land are approaching non banking finance corporations (NBFC). These loans are expensive and the cost is

passed to the end users. Governments could consider the option to allow Private banks to give loans to

developers looking to buy land for time bound production of affordable housing. This would help bring

down the cost of finance.

Allow private sector banks to finance land for affordable housing:

We would like to reiterate the need for taxation measures that prevent speculation on of land and in turn

make land more productive. Vacant land that is not being used for primary activities (like agriculture or fish

drying) or any other job creating functions should be subjected to a vacant land tax. Similarly inventory and

vacant house tax can help prevent speculation on built housing in turn reducing cost of rental and capital

values.

Bring Taxation measures to curb land speculation and accumulation of inventory and

vacant stock

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