Though the resulting cash-crunch on developers has increased the potential hazard of delayed possession and stalled projects, the ongoing slowdown in housing sales across India has served a number of beneficial purposes too.
In the first place, prices across most markets have rationalized. Secondly, buyers’ bargaining power has increased manifold. Thirdly, developers have been prevailed upon to come up with newer, more attractive options to lure buyers. One of the most attractive new concepts to have hit the housing market of late is cost-effective plug-and-play homes.
Such homes are ready-to-move-in in the truest sense because they are instantly ‘livable’.
At a unit level, they are fully furnished and provided with every trapping of modern comfort, including ‘smart home‘ automation security and conveniences, fans and air conditioning, heaters installed in bathrooms, and all contemporary kitchen features and appliances.
At a project level, they provide regular housekeeping for all units, in-house fitness centres, food courts with delivery service, and community halls with regularly scheduled activities for residents. Also, they are sized for affordability and convenience and located in the best-connected areas of the city.
The arrival of this new concept has been a blessing for working couples and individuals, and even retired people who want their homes to support a vibrant, enjoyable and connected lifestyle and negating the time, effort and expense involved in setting up and running a functional household. Delivered in highly customized new projects, these homes are in fact the ultimate home seeker’s solution.
Already available in Pune’s IT-centric location Bhugaon, such housing options are garnering a lot of interest from developers who simply tie up with the facilitating agencies to provide these comforts and build their projects according to set specifications. For home buyers, it is nothing less than a dream come true.