I am looking for a place in and around south chennai. I am not looking at new flats but spacious 3BHK resale flats.
Inorder to expedite my house hunting process I have no choice but to contact the local agents. In the last 2 weeks I believe I have done enough to gauge the real estate market and hence thought of posting this for further review and suggestions..
- For 2 BHK apartments the market is still going strong. In this range prices for resale flats are up, for anything around 13XX sqft it is even upto 95 lakhs. Thus this is seller's market.
- Price/sqft for new flats is between 8 to 11K whereas for resale it is from 5 to 8K
- For 3BHK resale flats with list price beyond 1C: the flats are not that many and if there are, they are kept vacant even for 6 to 8 months awaiting a good deal. Thus this is buyer's market.
- Also the rental market has a similar behaviour. Flats beyond 50K per month are plenty but not taken up for a long time.
Assuming the fact that flats depreciate in the long run, is it advisable to buy flats beyond 5 or 10 years old??.
My worry is if these old flats depreciate much faster than the corressponding appreciation in their land costs, we might end up loosing a lot.
Please share your opinions, and thoughts on the above..
I saw a flat for 1.2C, which is kept vacant for a very long time. Looks like they might come down to 1C but I feel it should be around 90Lakhs or even less than that. The agents have advised not to go for that price as there are other 2BHK units (lesser by 250 - 300 sqft than 3Bhk) going for the same price..
Thank you
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