According to students here at ISB, the rent to price ratio in Hyderabad is between 2 and 3 percent. Mortgage rates are 12 percent; mortgage interest is tax deductible here, and the marginal tax rate for most buyers is 33 percent, so the after-tax cost of capital is 8 percent. Add to that maintenance costs and a risk premium on housing equity, and the housing market needs to appreciate something like ten percent a year to be sustainable. But of course this will not happen forever.
One surprise--in the formal market for housing in India, homebuyers can get mortgages with LTVs of up to 90 percent.
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