Record Investment Made Into India's Property Sector

India is currently suffering from a deficit of betweendevelopment will be released Autumn 2005 and
80 – 100 million housing units and the country'sfeature a variety of Mediterranean styled homes for
government have realised that foreign directfreehold purchase.
investment into the property sector is key to solvingThe initial one billion dollar investment may well be
this strategic issue and to further boosting therecord FDI for the real estate sector in India but it
country's growing economy over the longer term.heralds merely the start of Royal Indian Raj
Having identified this fundamental fact, theInternational Corporation's commitment. Royal Garden
government have issued brand new legislation toMarina City and Financial Harbor are the next two
liberalise the laws of FDI with regard to the propertyprojects on line to be developed in Mumbai which is
sector in India and immediately the Indian real estateIndia's financial capital. Over sixteen billion dollars of
market has embraced a record amount of overseasinvestment will be raised to develop the projects
investment which has been committed by US basedwhich will cover over five thousand acres of prime
investors to new housing projects in the cities ofreal estate in Mumbai.
Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi.Royal Garden City in New Delhi and Royal Garden
The housing market in India is already oversubscribedCity in Kolkata will follow with project start dates
– demand exceeds supply as stated –targeted to commence on schedule in the Summer
and the divide is growing by up to 34% a year.of 2006, and in total the company have committed
There is therefore room for substantial growth andto the Indian real estate market for the next ten
impressive profits and returns and these facts haveyears during which time they will aim to create
been identified by Nevada based Royal Indian Raj10,000 new direct jobs and 40,000 new indirect jobs
International Corporation who have teamed up within India.
the New York based investment banking companyThis overseas investment commitment is understood
Greenwich Group International to jointly announce ato have been built off the back of the overall
one billion US dollar initial investment into India'sstrengthening of the Indian economy, the rise in
property sector.personal wealth levels being enjoyed by many Indian
The initial project being undertaken by thecitizens and the associated rise in consumer spending,
conglomerate is Royal Garden Villas, a seventeentogether with the improvements being made in local
acre residential development on the outskirts oflending facilities and of course the growing demand
Bangalore and just 25km away from the brand newfor housing units that cannot be met by local
Bangalore International Airport. The first phase of villaconstructors in the short to medium term.