Real Estate Investments: How are retail investors benefiting from small and medium REITs? livemint.com
Indian regulators are pro-actively driving a dynamic and multifaceted transformation within the real estate sector. A wave of progressive regulatory reforms including implementation of the RERA Act (2016) for enhancing developer responsibility, GST for streamlining taxation, REIT regulations (2014) for paving a new asset class have all helped in fostering accessibility, transparency and stability for discerning investors.
The introduction of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) regulations in 2014 and the subsequent listing of the first REIT in India in 2019 unlocked a new avenue for retail investors to benefit from institutional real estate investing