Giving a massive push to affordable housing sector finance minister Arun Jaitley in the budget finally gave the segment much needed relief and granted infrastructure status to affordable housing. The industry had been for long asking for these changes.

According to industry experts as well as officials in the Urban Development ministry the new measures would not only push more developers to enter the affordable housing segment, the cost of development would massively reduced for developers. Also with tax benefits the government is offering, post demonetisation real estate prices ...