if you have been protracting your decision to buy a house then this festive season is the right time to loosen your purse strings although the festive season is considered an auspicious time to buy new things including real estate heres a list of five reasons why prospective home buyers should buy a property nowunsold inventorypost the real estate slowdown most developers had been waiting for the reemergence of positivity back into the market buyers renewed enthusiasm in the real estate has brought cheers for developers who are now trying to liquidate their existing inventory and recover costs to make the most of this development builders are offering a number of discounts and freebies to attract enduserslow property pricesproperty prices have decreased in the last couple of years although prices have remained stagnant for a while now this is the ideal time to indulge in a hard bargain with the seller to extract the best deal for yourselfdiscounts and freebies galoredevelopers are trying to encash the market sentiment and attract buyers by offering them freebies to make the deal look attractive munish mishra sales head wave city says there is no better time than the festive season to avail attractive offers we have tiedup with lg to offer various products such as ac refrigerator led tv washing machine oven etc to our customers but a word of caution dont fall for the freebies instantly judicially analyse the freebies and try to monetise them as well you may ask your builder to give you the value of the freebies as discount on the property and if the offered price is reasonable then go ahead and accept the offer if festive offers from developers include important amenities such as free car parking then go for them but make sure to bargain hard on the final property pricelower home loan rateslowering of repo rate by the reserve bank of india has led to a decline in the home loan interest rates in september 2017 banks were providing home loans at an interest rate of 835 which is attracting home buyers renu s karnad managing director hdfc says low interest rates help buyers in reducing their borrowed costs interest rate is one of the important factors that a home buyer looks at while buying a home lower interest rates not only helps in reducing the borrowing costs but also improves their loan eligibility she further added clss under pmay for interest subsidy of 65 for ews and lig categories and the extension of the scheme for mig category interest subsidy of 4 on rs 9 lakh loan and 3 on rs 12 lakh loan by another 15 months till march 2019 is in itself much more than a festive offer reracompliant projects a reracompliant project means that the developer cant take you for a ride anymore policies like rera and gst have instilled a sense of compliance in developers and thus they are most likely to fulfil their promises now sanjay shenoy joint managing