Real estate developers believe the move comes at a crucial time when land prices and construction costs continue to rise steadily across Greater Hyderabad. They argue that TDR remains one of the few planning tools available to absorb escalating land costs without substantially increasing apartment prices. A real estate expert, K Indra Sena Reddy, who is also the president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Telangana, said “TDR is one of the few instruments left that still allows developers to maintain a price point that the middle-class buyer can afford. Government land auctions have pushed up benchmark land values, speculative holding has reduced land availability, and construction costs continue to rise up to 3-5% a year. In such a scenario, TDR helps add development potential without incurring additional land acquisition costs, which ultimately benefits the homebuyer,” said Indra Sena.