Rental Property in India- Investment Opportunity

The Property sector is now the fastest growing industry in the liberated economy in India. The industry has already drawn huge investment both inland and overseas but still there is ample opportunity to invest in the prime properties in the different cities and urban areas of our country. In fact it is only the beginning of the revolution.

The recent boom in the manufacturing and the service industries as well as in Information Technology (IT) and IT enabled service industries, is generating large number of new employments in all levels particularly in the specialized skilled levels.

Also these industries have the potential of generation of more employment for skilled and educated people in near and far future.

The salaries and perquisites offered by these industries to the eligible employees are comparable to the best of the industries worldwide and some times even better than that in other developed countries.

As a result of all these factors, the new educated young working generation is now earning lot of money and is ready to spend for their needs.

As such it is needless to mention that the young and educated people will rush towards the big cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata etc. which have now become the hub for the new generation of industrial revolution in the country generating millions of employment for professionals.

Unfortunately there is an acute scarcity for good accommodation in the big cities and surrounding areas which can meet the requirements of the aliens coming to the cities for employment.

In such a situation demand for good housing has sky rocketed due to inadequacy and property builders are taking these opportunities to build sky scrappers and investing lot of money towards property development in the big cities.

However, owning a good accommodation in good locality in the city is not a child's play. Considerable fortunes are to be spent for owning it which may not be possible for a young person whatever his or her income is.

In these cases, renting an accommodation is the only solution. As such, demand for residential rental property is increasing everyday in all the cities and urban areas.

Also putting a house for rent by owner has become a source of income for the property investor or owner of the property.

The persons whose income is eventually more than average may not like to stay in a rented accommodation in multistoried buildings. He will prefer rent independent house for living with family.

All the above is pointing to the great potential in investment in property business.

The advantages of investing in properties may be summarized as below:

- Demand for accommodation is ever increasing and people are ready to pay hefty amount towards accommodation.
- Out right sale of the accommodation to the purchaser by the builder is a profitable business and return on investment is higher compared to other industries.
- If immediate selling is not possible, renting the accommodation is a good business and the return towards the rent is far more than the normal interest bankers charge for the loan towards development of the property.
- Not only apartments in multistoried buildings, demand for independent houses for rent is also high. As such investment in building independent houses for renting purpose is also a profitable business with high rate of return.