Small Flats Are Back In Mumbai as Sales Dry Up:

With realty sales drying up due to increasing prices, developers are now developing small homes priced to be within reach of middle-income homebuyers, especially the young. For instance, Netz Realty is coming up with studio apartments at Andheri and Mahim, with 300 to 450 sq ft furnished flats priced in the range of Rs 30-Rs 40 lakh. Ms Renuka Khekade, a spokesperson for Netz Realty said their target audience are young home buyers. She also said the trend of studio apartments is picking up in various metros, driven primarily by pent-up demand for affordable mid-range housing.

While Ankur Enterprises is offering 475-sq-ft one-bedroom-hall-kitchen flats in the Rs 30 lakh range at Nahur near Mulund, two other developers, Samarth Krupa and Aditya Builders have put on the market compact houses in the Rs 25-Rs 30 lakh range in Tilak Nagar at Chembur. Besides this trend, many developers who've acquired land at low prices to put up projects under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority scheme, or by way of redevelopment of old buildings, are also selling apartments at lesser prices to mop up volume. 

As per realty experts, given how desirable housing in the city is well out of reach of most buyers, the low-budget home is the closest they can get to a sure bet.

Housing Sector Gets More Funds Than Commercial Space

The residential segment is getting more fund flows than in the retail and commercial space. This signifies a half-baked recovery for the industry than a complete turnaround. "As a matter of strategy, bankers are not bullish on the commercial segment of the real estate industry due to higher supply in the segment. Today, it is perceived as a high risk exposure due to the slow pick up for leased out property," Mr H S Upendra Kamath, executive director, Canara Bank said. Canara Bank, which has a little less than Rs 2,500 crore exposure to the commercial real estate sector, has funded most of the projects in the residential space, he said. He also revealed that as demand was sound in the residential space with a good advance flow in the housing loan segment, banks were more willing to lend to this vertical.. 

MHADA Lists some buildings in Mumbai's (Bombay) Infamous

Red Light District, Kamathipura, 

as Dangerous!!!!

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has termed twenty-four buildings in Mumbai's island city, including landmark structures such as Esplanade Mansion and the Botawala chawls, as extremely dangerous. MHADA has asked residents of these structures to leave the ramshackle buildings and move to MHADA transit accommodation at locations across the city. The list contains buildings in areas including Bora Bazar, Memonwada, Nizam Street, Kamathipura, Madanpura and Reay Road.
SO SOME OF THE MUMBAI'S SEX WORKERS AND THEIR CLIENTS OPTING FOR MALE SEXUAL PLEASURE COULD BE IN TROUBLE......