Over 75% real estate projects non-starters: Assocham

NEW DELHI: Over 75 per cent of 3,540 live real estate projects with outstanding investments of more than Rs 14 lakh crore remained non-starters as of 2014-15, an Assocham study said.

“Over 75 per cent of total 3,540 live projects with total outstanding investments worth over Rs 14 lakh crore attracted by the real estate sector across India remained non-starters as of financial year 2014-15,” said an Assocham study.

As per the study, while over 2,300 projects in the realty sector remained non-starters, over 1,000 on-going projects have registered significant delays in completion.

With 964 projects, domestic private sector accounted for 95 per cent share in projects facing delays, followed by public sector (49 projects) and foreign private companies (six projects), it said.

“On an average, real estate projects in India are facing a delay of 33 months in completion,” Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said while releasing the report.
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