Pune real estate market to go the Dubai way? What say you?

India isn't another Dubai, and thus our property market will escape the kind of collapse that has impacted the Gulf nation.

This is what Mr. Keki Mistry believes. Coming straight from the chief of HDFC, India's largest housing finance company, these words carry a lot of weight.

As Mr. Mistry says, "Dubai was very different from India. In India, the property market is largely end-user based; in Dubai, the property market is largely investor based."

While we are in agreement with Mr. Mistry about his views on the nature of the Indian realty market, we believe certain pockets in the country like Mumbai and Pune do give a sense of a building bubble. And they seem like strong contenders for being the 'next Dubai'!

We believe homes are still out of reach of average buyers in these cities.

And if greedy real estate companies, instead of getting punished for their misdemeanors, continue to get rescued by banks, they will not change their stripes in a hurry and will continue to bid up home prices.

So, while the Indian realty market might not crash like the one in Dubai, realty buyers' dreams of owning their own homes will continue to crash if property prices continue to surge.

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