said the 1 per cent interest rate subsidy which was provided for loans on affordable housing last year should be expanded to include a wider price band of budget housing we also suggest that more funds be allocated to infrastructure formation which would help unlock the inherent value of the property markets in punes peripheral areas he said the highest demand for pune residential real estate comes from its significantly large corpus of lowtomid income buyers as such this market is extremely sensitized to price and interest rate fluctuations that would not have as much of an impact in larger metros bajaj said