Studio apartment supply falls as Covid makes people stay at home: Study

Average size of studio apartments was largest in the National Capital Region and smallest in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, finds Anarock

Housing projects offered fewer studio apartments in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reversing growth in the segment, said a study on Thursday.

Of the 884 projects launched in 2020 in seven major cities, 130 offered studio apartments (a 15 per cent share). As many 1,921 projects in 2019 offered 368 (19 per cent share) studio apartments, said Anarock Property Consultants.

A studio apartment has a single large room that doubles up as a living room, bedroom and a kitchenette. “The studio apartments trend so far can be clearly plotted. Out of the total 2,102 projects launched in 2013 in