Let’s Take a Tour Around Major Policy Changes that Indian Realty Market Encountered Post Independence

Industrial development doesn’t get built in a day. From the inception to visible growth of industry bank on governmental intervene and individual business policies. An existing policy develops with extract of the previous one with some additional dressing. Indian economical policies are decided on the viewpoint of market conditions, geographical circumstances, socio-economic changes in population and other major and minor principles of a particular time period.

Real estate sector is globally one of the major revenue generating sectors when it comes to the contribution to the economy. Alike the other countries Indian real estate is not that on the button. Yet, it contributes 3-5% in national GDP; hence, the sector is largely blamed for lack of accountability.  Here we will talk about few major policy changes and its impact on Indian realty post independence.
India is about to complete 7 decades of its independence and it’s worthwhile to recall those policies that have had a resilient impact in Indian real estate.



1. Chandigarh and Gandhinagar were the first and second capital cities that came into picture in 1952 and 1960 respectively. Planning of the new cities had been started to be materialized.

2. The Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, first integrated the practice of development plans and town planning. The planning commission then stretched it further towards district development and issued its first guidelines for district planning in 1969.

3. To tone down increasing land prices in urban areas and to provide low income housing, The Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act was enacted in 1976, which totally failed to serve its purpose and ended up worsening the availability of land for social infrastructure and social housing apart from states like Kerala and West Bengal.

4. Housing and Urban Development Company was the first real estate correlated government institution developed in 1970. Thereafter City and Industrial Development Corporation in 1971, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority in 1975, National Housing Bank in 1988, and the Housing Development Finance Corporation in 1994 were set up one by one to shape up and boost the real estate industry.

5. In 1991, when Indian market was on the way to recover its rising fiscal deficits, some monopolizing reformation occurred, which seeded the modernization of economy. Creating job opportunities, setting up big market for the consumers, access to multiple products and services- these were some revolutionary influx which paved the way for big MNCs arrival in Indian market. World-class office spaces started sprouting with this development.


6. The phase of 1994-99 was the imprint of India’s first property cycle as the market. NRI and Foreign capitals started delving into Indian realty which hiked the property prices up. The market took south post 1995 due to fundamental disorganization. The misfortune continued with the approach of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-98. Foreign capital just got vanished from the market overnight.

7. In 1992, the concept of commercialization of airspace above transit routes was introduced at Vashi station. Sanpada, Juinagar, Nerul and CBD Belapur – on the same railway line followed the track of Vashi. Seawoods-Darave, the latest transformation in 2017 railway station was a huge hit.

8. India got its recognition in the global software business. The inception of Y2K turned out to be fruitful for Indian realty business. IT sectors and foreign companies started setting up offices in cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru during this period which advanced residential and commercial requirement.

9. Foreign Direct Investment was allowed to invest in real estate in 2005, which led to complete transformation in business practises and product offering in real estate.

10. India’s first retail mall had been introduced in Chennai-‘Spencer Plaza’ in the early 2000.

11. With the governmental sanction of reconstruction and remodelling brownfield and Greenfield
airports through public-private partnership, the idea of airport cities and airport precinct real estate was came in fact.

12. The crash of Lehman Brothers in 2008, followed by sub-prime crisis led investors questioning the security of investment in asset classes. Global financial slowdown had a big blow in commercial real estate market and more or less the residential market too. But Indian residential market recovered within no time.

13. Implementation of RERA- the Real Estate Regulation (and Development) Act in Mat 1, 2017 has been considered as a major reformation of the real estate sector. With an objective of securing the buyers rights RERA will be the watchdog of entire real estate transactions of the country. RERA will empower homebuyers with more confident in terms of real estate investments. Small-scale developers will be non-existent as continuation of business under RERA purview will be a bit too much for them.

14. ‘Housing for all by 2022’- an ambitious project of central government is another scoop aiming to boost Indian real estate sale. Providing home for lower and medium income group at moderate price and prohibition of illegal land acquisition are backing this scheme. India is set to provide 20 million homes by 2022 to the economically weaker section of the country.

15. The Real Estate Investment Trusts will allow the investors of every budget chipping in prime commercial real estate market. REIT was first introduced in 2014.  It will open a new sky for the development of modern commercial spaces as well as rising rentals across their micro markets.

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