Home buyers refuse to bite the bait despite developers offering a host of sops at the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industrys four-day property exhibition that began on Thursday.
Superficial discounts like stamp duty waivers, free car parks, no charge for floor rise and special offers on the equated monthly installments that is to be paid on home loans seem to be failing to change the buyers sentiments as they expect a crash in prices soon. Even as hundreds of enquiries poured in at the exhibition on Dussehra, it failed to translate into actual bookings.
Vinayak Prabhu, who stays in a hired accommodation in Kalina and has been looking to buy a house closer to his workplace at Tata Motors in Thane, feels that prices have stabilised over the last six month.
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