‘Commercial realty market in a sweet spot’
The commercial real estate market has had a good year with demand outstripping supply. As of now, it is expected that the trend will continue into 2019 and prices will remain firm in select markets, says Rajat Gupta, Managing Director — Advisory & Transaction Services, India, CBRE. Gupta, recently in Kolkata to attend a CII seminar, spoke to BusinessLine on the outlook for 2019, expected price movement and the impact of GST on commercial real estate. Excepts: How has the year 2018 played out for commercial real estate? This year (2018) has been a good year for commercial real estate. The seven large cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and NCR — are expected to report around 42 million square feet of absorption; which is expected to be an all-time high. The incremental supply this year will hit a high of 30 million square feet. So demand outstrips supply. This is also a reason why most preferred office micro-markets in the country have ...