According to the report titled Real Insight Residential – Annual Round-up 2021, home sales in India’s eight prime housing markets increased 13% in 2021, when compared to the overall sales in 2020. The figures include the sales numbers for all the four quarters in both calendar years.
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Demand for completed residential properties is rising compared to that for under-construction flats, as the share of ready-to-move-in homes in the total housing sales in 2020 rose to 21 per cent from 18 per cent in the previous year, according to News Corp-backed realty brokerage firm PropTiger.
A total of 1,82,640 units were sold in the 2020 calendar year, of which 21 per cent were in the RTMI (ready-to-move-in) category and 79 per cent were under-construction, PropTiger said quoting its Real Insight report for 2020.
In 2019, a total of 3,47,590 units were sold of which 18 per cent were RTMI, it said in a statement.
PropTiger research found that the share of RTMI in the total sales has been on the rise since 2016.
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