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The real estate sector has underperformed the Sensex by 16% in the past one month on concerns of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) hawkish stance towards the sector and likely increases in mortgage rates. Our analysis of Mumbai’s apartment regist...
India tops Asian real estate investment markets
India leads the pack of top real estate investment markets in Asia for 2010, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Urban Land Institute, a global non-profit education and research institute.The report, which provides an outlook on ...
NIREM takes initiatives to develop human resources for Indian Real Estate
With the meteoritic growth in real estate sector during last few years, the property and real estate business also became more complex in structure and more international in scope, which created the shortage of trained real estate professionals. Then...
Buying real estate? Read this first!
Traditionally real estate in the form of the house that we live in has been the single largest investment for most of us. This is seen not only in India but across the world. Let us now apply the metrics that we attribute to investments in general t...
Property prices likely to go up in December
If you are looking to buy a house in Mumbai or in the National Capital Region be ready to take a big hit on your pocket. But south India may still hold a bargain or two, reports CNBC-TV18's Sunanda Jayaseelan. Real estate developers have started hiki...
Govt may scrap 3-year lock-in for FDI in real estate
To boost foreign direct investment (FDI) in real estate, the government may remove the mandatory three-year lock-in period for overseas investments in the sector. The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) has proposed this move, with a...
MCD launches amnesty scheme for tax defaulters
NEW DELHI: Not paying your property tax can land you behind bars for a period of seven years now. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) haslaunched am amnesty scheme under which tax defaulters can clear their dues without having to pay a penalty o...
New property tax rule put on hold Assetventures
MUMBAI: With an eye on the upcoming assembly elections, public representatives in the BMC held back an important proposal to implement newcapital value-based system to calculate property tax.The capital value-based system, which is fairer and easier...
Bandra-Worli Sea Link to drive prices of real estate
It’s a classic case of infrastructural development boosting real estate prices.The Bandra-Worli Sea Link seems to be doing more than just easing the traffic flow from north and south Mumbai. Experts in the country's financial capital say that there...
Commercial real estate rentals seem to be bottoming out
Mumbai continues to be the second costliest city in Asia Pacific in terms of prime rental rates. With rent of about USD 800 per sq metre perannum, Mumbai is ahead of the likes of Tokyo (USD 750 per sq metre p.a.) and Singapore (USD 625 per sq metre p...
Rich, powerful flouting laws for real estate construction
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today came down heavily on economically affluent people, bureaucrary and civic body officials for mushrooming illegal real estate construction in the country and ruled file notings by ministers or officials do not have an...
Rs 1 crore looted from Noida property dealer
Armed car-borne miscreants shot at and looted Rs 1 crore from a property dealer in Noida on Tuesday afternoon in supposedly the biggeston-road loot from an individual in the state. The victim has been admitted to Kailash Hospital in Noida where his c...
Return of NRI interest in Indian real estate
"The right sized product, at the right price will surely be a sell-out," says Sukhraj Nahar, chairman of the Nahar Group. At the MCHI's India Realty Expo, 2009, in Dubai, the Nahar Group offered NRIs homes in a new segment - a two BHK flat that cost ...
Cheap housing offers lifeline to Indian developers
"No frills, Simple homes" reads the banner hanging in the Delhi headquarters of Unitech, India's leading property developer.It's a mantra that has been taken up by realtors across the country with a new-found passion for affordable housing that owes ...
Houses most affordable since 2005
Buying your own home is more affordable now than it has ever been in the last four years. The average price of a house is around 4.5 times of the buyers average income, against 4.6 times in 2005. In 2007, the affordability factor had widened to 5...
Centre to bring in law to regulate real estate in Delhi
NEW DELHI: The Central Government on Thursday said that it is considering a model legislation on regulating real estate in Delhi.In reply to a written question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Urban Development Saugata Roy said that 'the D...
RBI issues revised draft norms on commercial real estate exposures
CHENNAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with revised draft guidelines on commercial real estate (CRE) exposures. The revision comes in the wake of doubts raised in certain quarters on treatment of specified exposures. The new draft is a...
Realty firms focus on ‘affordable’ homes to boost sales, profits Assetventures
To boost slowing demand in the realty sector and tap the growing market for affordable housing, realty firm Unitech Ltd will build 20,000 homes this year, priced between Rs10 lakh and Rs30 lakh, launching its first such project in Chennai this month....
Rs10 lakh for a flat in Pune (Assetventures)
When was the last time you heard about a Rs10-lakh flat in the city limits?President of the Pune chapter of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai) said that a Rs10-lakh flat was probably sold in the late 1990s, while a ...
Realty companies resorting to discounts (assetventures)
Realty companies are resorting to discounts to sell commercial properties in order to improve cash flows and reduce mounting debts. DLF, the country’s biggest real estate firm by market capitalisation, has recently sold its 66% stake in a specia...
In real estate slump, developers pin hope on service apartments (asetventures)
After being launched in cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Pune, service apartments will soon be a reality in Tier II and III cities. Considering the growing number of corporate honchos visiting the tri-city, Ludhiana and Amritsar, real estate develop...
DLF sees property prices firming up Assetventures
DLF Ltd India's largest listed real estate firm, sees signs of recovery in the country's beaten down residential property sector and expects prices to start firming up, a senior official said on Monday.Still, Rajeev Talwar, group executive director...
Real estate developers homing in on residential projects
While the sudden rise in demand for affordable residential housing in the last couple of months has given the much-needed relief to real estate developers, commercial and retail segments continue to face the heat of oversupply, combined with declinin...
Dubai has seventh costliest office property market globally
According to a report by real estate consultancy firm, CB Richard Ellis, as reported by Emirates Business 24/7, emirate of Dubai falls seventh in the list of costliest office market globally with an occupancy cost of Dh449.90 per square foot per annu...
Mumbai slips to No. 6 on global office rental list
Mumbai, which became the second-most expensive office property market globally one-and-a-half years ago at the peak of a real estate boom in the country, has now slipped out of the top-five list, as per a survey of 170 cities by real estate consulta...
DLF puts Andheri project on the block
DLF, India’s largest real estate firm by market capitalisation, is learnt to have put its commercial property in Andheri, a Mumbai suburb, on the block. This project was being developed with Akruti City, and the asking price for the property is sa...
Fortune Park Hotel launches third property in Bangalore
Fortune Park Hotels Limited, ITC's wholly owned subsidary, on Wednesday launched the launch of its 29th property, 130-room the Fortune Park JP Celestial, in the city.The hotel, owned by the the JP Group and now managed by Fortune Park Hotel, is a con...
Indian real estate back as favorites of NRIs and PIOs
With the India Realty Expo 2009 opening in Dubai on Thursday, Indian real estate is back on the radar of NRIs and PIOs, says Zubin Mehta, CEO, Markets cheer election resultsSectors and stocks to look out forPick stocks on fundamentalsFive facts on st...
Over 100 malls to spring up in India by end-2010: Report
Keen on matching supply with demand, real estate developers may spring up more than a hundred malls spread over 30-million sq ft in the country by end-2010, a report says. "Between now and 2010, an additional 31,846,504-square feet of mall space wil...
Rays of recovery - ASSOCHAM sees real estate recovery in 3 months
According to ASSOCHAM, anticipating strong policy measures for real estate in forthcoming Budget, embattled realty majors see positive signs of recovery taking place, within next 3 months as affordable housing rev up demand and improved cash flows ad...
