367K housing units in seven metros: Knight Frank

“Our extensive research reveals that as the real estate sector’s growth continues to improve,the country will witness a supply of 138,000 residential units in 2010,57 per cent more than the supply seen in 2009,” Gulam Zia,National Director (Research and Advisory Services),Knight Frank India said in a release.

Hyderabad would contribute 15 per cent or 53,000 housing units,Pune 14 per cent,Bengaluru 10 per cent,Chennai nine per cent and Kolkata the remaining seven per cent of the total supply.

The study also revealed that the developers were now increasingly focusing on catering to the middle-income segment with upto there bedroom-hall-kitchen housing units and not on 4&5-BHK or penthouses as they used to do few years back.