Growth in housing prices moderated to 3.6% in Q4FY19: RBI

02 Jul 2019 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank has released the quarterly house price index (HPI) (base: 2010-11=100) for Q4 of last financial year (Q4FY19), based on transaction data received from housing registration authorities in ten major cities (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow and Mumbai). It showed that on a year-on-year basis, the growth in all-India HPI continued to moderate and stood at 3.6 per cent in Q4FY19 as against 5.1 per cent in the previous quarter and 6.7 per cent a year ago.

Barring Jaipur and Kanpur, all the cities recorded an increase in HPI on an annual basis. The annual growth or contraction in HPI ranged from 19.5 per cent (in Kochi) to (-)11.4 per cent (in Jaipur).

Besides, on a year-on-year basis, the all-India HPI had recorded a growth of 5.7% in Q2FY19 as against 5.3% in the previous quarter and 7.4% a year ago. Except Kanpur, all other cities recorded a rise in housing prices on an annual basis. The annual growth/contraction in HPI ranged from 20.8% (in Kochi) to (-) 3.0% (in Kanpur), indicating large divergences in city-wise housing price movements. City-wise, large variance was observed, with Chennai recording the highest rise 6.2% and Kanpur recording the maximum contraction (-) 5.6%.

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