Based in Tallahassee, Florida, Benchmark has a hands-on management dynamic which continues to lead the Southeast in asset management and enhancement. We understand that you are trusting us with a major investment you have made and our advanced systems allow us to efficiently manage our entire portfolio while still leaving time for individual attention and care as a normal process. We have implemented state of the art systems for marketing, leasing, inspecting, maintaining and reporting on your property. He hoped for a stable interest rate regime.Your property matters to our team. Investors Clinic founder Honeyy Katiyal said that hike in interest rates will hurt the real estate sector the most. 'Affordability remains high and buying momentum is expected to remain largely intact,' Das added. Samantak Das, chief economist, and head of research and REIS, India, JLL, said, 'The rise in policy rate is expected to act more as a sentiment disruptor for the home buyers, given that mortgage rates are likely to inch up'. Goyal hoped inflation to cool down by the year-end, enabling the central bank to revert to a lower interest rate regime. India Sotheby's International Realty CEO Amit Goyal said he doesn't see any major impact on the demand side in the housing market, which continues to remain strong. 'Rising interest rate along with elevated property construction cost and product price pressures could adversely impact the real estate buyer's sentiment,' Baijal felt. Knight Frank India CMD Shishir Baijal said home loans are set to get costlier. He advised homebuyers to take advantage of the prevailing home loan rates, with housing prices expected to rise.Дhruv Agarwala, CEO of and said: 'The twin rate hikes by the apex bank would ultimately result in home loan interest rates going up, thereby impacting buyer sentiment'.ДЄlso Read | RBI hikes repo rate by 50 bps to 4.90%, raises inflation forecast to 6.7%

Any future hikes will reflect markedly on housing sales,' he added.Д¬olliers India CEO Ramesh Nair is expecting banks to gradually pass on this rise in repo rate in the form of higher home loan rates in the coming months. Puri said the hike in repo rate was inevitable. Genuine demand comes from an underlying aspiration for homeownership,' he observed. '.So, there is no investor mindset seeking the lowest possible entry point. He noted that the housing market is still largely end-user driven. 'Nevertheless, the current hike will reflect in residential sales volumes in the months to come, more so in the affordable and mid-segments,' Puri pointed out. Interest rates will remain lower than during the global financial crisis of 2008 when they went as high as 12 per cent and above, he said. Read | Markets fall, bond yields rise after RBI hikes rate Property consultancy firms Anarock, Knight Frank India, JLL India, Colliers India, India Sotheby's International Realty and Investors Clinic said that the RBI's move was on the expected line to control inflation and this would result in an increase in interest rates on home loans.ДЄnarock Chairman Anuj Puri said: 'The rate hike will push up home loan interest rates, which had already begun creeping upward after the surprise monetary policy announcement last month'. The RBI on Wednesday hiked the key benchmark rate by 50 basis points. The RBI's decision to hike the benchmark interest rate will make home loans costlier and affect housing sales, especially in affordable and mid-income segments, according to property consultants.

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