Around 75 per cent wealthy people will look to buy luxury properties, worth more than Rs 5 crore, over the next two years in big cities as well as holiday destinations, according to a survey. India Sotheby's International Realty, one of the leading brokerage firms in luxury real estate space, has conducted a survey of over 200 HNIs (High Net worth Individuals) and ultra-HNIs to gauge the mood of the luxury real estate buyers across India's top 8 cities/regions -- Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, and Goa. "An overwhelming 76 per cent respondents said they would look to buy real estate in the coming two years," according to the report 'Luxury Housing Outlook-2022'. This signals a very strong turnaround in sentiments for real estate amongst the wealthy in India, it added. Out of the 76 per cent wanting to buy real estate, 89 per cent would prefer luxury homes (city apartments, city bungalows and holiday homes), while the rest 11 per cent prefer premium
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