Real estate sector gets GST booster dose

AHMEDABAD: On Sunday, Gujarat’s real property sector got the much-needed spice up with the GST Council slashing tax rates on under-construction housing properties to 5% from present 12%, whilst GST fee was once diminished from 8% to at least one% for inexpensive housing. For the final two and half months, particularly since December final yr, the choice of real property projects making use of for Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority (GRERA) clearance was once witnessing a slowdown.

A complete of 180 real property projects — residential, business, combined and plotted development — had been approved via GRERA throughout Gujarat between December final yr and primary week of February this yr. Of those, 86 projects had been residential projects including 29 projects that had been inexpensive housing.


These numbers are low bearing in mind that since May 2017, a total of Rs 1.46 lakh crore price of real property projects involving the 5.04 lakh belongings devices — housing, business, plotted development – had been approved via Gujarat RERA place of business.


Jitu Shah, an actual property developer, mentioned, “The GST minimize will spice up the call for for inexpensive housing via no less than 20%. The call for for housing had long gone down in the previous couple of months.” He added, “People who had been maintaining on to their investment plans will now observe.”


In Ahmedabad, 71,749 inexpensive housing are being constructed and of these, the 2BHK section will see 35,826 devices with carpet spaces between 50 sq. metres and 66 sq. metres (538 squarefeet to 710 squarefeet), and 7,237 devices with carpet spaces starting from 66 sq. metres to 80 sq. metres (710 squarefeet to 861 squarefeet) are under construction. The choice of devices smaller than those, with carpet spaces of up to 50 sq. metres — is 24,198, which are under construction in Ahmedabad right now.


In Vadodara, since May 2017, a total of 326 inexpensive housing projects had been approved which contains 26 projects being advanced via executive agencies. In Surat, 215 inexpensive projects had been approved of which 24 projects had been constructed via executive agencies.


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