January 2020 - Esspee Group

Strategies to Beat Real Estate Slowdown

January 24, 2020
Esspee Group
Real Estate

The real estate slowdown is underway, blowing away many small and medium scale players like a bowling ball rolling over nine pins. The situation, seemingly, appears grim. With unsold inventory pilling up and even with massive money pumped in advertising, nothing seems to work. Yet, a silver lining can always be found in examples we shall describe here, but before we do, it is important to understand that changes in consumer preferences, macro-economic realities and market liquidity means small and medium scale businesses of today have to come up with solutions which are grounded in reality. The top nine real…

How Office Real Estate is Defying Economic Slowdown

With the Indian economy clocking at around 4% GDP growth and the recent downgrading of India’s ranking by IMF, investor confidence appears to be at an all time low in the present moment. Consequently, it implies that the real estate may also show such signs. However observers were startled to find that this economic sector is defying all odds, especially commercial real estate. What they found was that a large number of companies, including SMEs, are pre-leasing commercial property to future-proof their financial portfolios and to hedge against future rental escalations. Different surveys point to this growth in various reports.…