India Real Estate real picture
Real Estate loans in India : Is this real Bubble? I’ve been waiting for some official confirmation of the bursting of the real estate bubble in India. Although bursting of the bubble (or even the existence of it) is still just hearsay, it is widely accepted that Indian real estate market is stuttering (to put it the best way I can). This article in the New York Times puts the depreciation in New Delhi and surrounding areas at 20%. I thought this is a good time to do a followup on my first post on Indian real estate. In the midst of the bursting housing bubble in US, UK, Spain, Ireland ..etc., sub-prime has become a common word (it also was nominated as the word of the year). There are several articles, blog entries and web sites detailing the life cycle of a mortgage loan in these countries, especially in the US, talking about how these loans are converted to Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and packaged as Credit Default Obligations (CDO) and sold to hedge funds, central banks, privat...