pune the fear of covid19 and the lockdown rules prepared and imposed by several housing societies across the city are having a debilitating impact on the secondary real estate market salesrealty industry estimates reveal that two old houses are sold for every 10 new units in pune within the pune and pimpri chinchwad municipal limits about 40000 housing units are sold and registered every year of these 60008000 houses could be resale units but the lockdown in the wake of the covid19 norms and the personalized rules made by the housing societies have hit hard the real estate sector already going through a slowdownwe are not allowed to enter many housing societies many prospective interested clients have moved to underconstruction properties said nilesh deshmukh of magic stone property consultant in pimple saudagar he estimated that there were at least 1000 properties available for resale in pimple saudagar alone registration department data of may 2020 revealed that only 30000 sales deed were registered in the state as against 125000 in may last year the resultant revenue stamp duty and registration payment fell a sharp 90 to rs175 croreas per market sources the primary housing sales in pune is likely to drop by 5060 in the apriljune quarter of 2020 as against the corresponding period of 2019 customers think that prices should fall some 25 customers who have paid token advances are renegotiating this is pulling deals apart sattar sayyad of ashiyana real estate saidthe brokers said they were not able to show properties and such a situation was leading to layoffs loss of revenue and a comatose market it is true that many housing societies are not allowing us to enter the premises some of the brokers have already left the field the smalltime brokers are finding it difficult to survive said kishan agarwal of prociti real estate in baner