Hyderabad
According to the study by Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on PE and merger and acquisition activity in India, Private equity (PE) firms had invested about USD 1.84 billion during the quarter ended June 2012. The investment amount was 34 percent less than USD 2.79 billion invested in the same period last year. Further, [...] Continue Reading »
Economic slowdown in the country has even hit tax collection in the April-June quarter. Only 6.77 per cent growth in gross direct tax collection has been recorded in the quarter while the target for the year was 15 per cent. The gross tax collection for the quarter was over Rs 1.11 lakh crore as against [...] Continue Reading »
According to ‘India Tax Ratio 2012‘ report by TaxSpanner, an online income tax return filing portal, only 56 per cent salaried individuals surveyed in the country own a house despite earning more than Rs 10 lakh annually. And amongst those earning below Rs 10 lakh annually, only 13 per cent own a house. This shows [...] Continue Reading »
Foreign investors are funding Indian real estate market after the release of Press note 2 in 2005 which opened up construction and development for Foreign direct investment (FDI). Many investors who had invested at that time, largely in residential sector, are now heading towards maturity and are withdrawing their prime investments. According to a report [...] Continue Reading »
Files of real estate projects are piling up at the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) for the past two months waiting for approval. The new metropolitan commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad is said to be sending the files back to the developers red-marked with query after query so that the files stay in endless cycles. The [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of the Malaysian Township project in Hyderabad are enraged by the attachment notice issued by the local Income Tax (I-T) department on 13th of June. The department issued an attachment order on the developer of the township, Swarnandhra-IJMII Integrated Township Development Company Pvt Ltd (SITCO), for nonpayment of tax of Rs 54 crore. [...] Continue Reading »
The experience of buying a house for the first time is almost the same with every individual. Price and connectivity over location are the top two buying considerations, for first time home-buyers. Most of the buyers set out to buy a home with the average budget of up to Rs. 40 lakh. But since the [...] Continue Reading »
A workshop was organised by Embarq India, a not-for-profit enterprise of the World Resources Institute (WRI), in which town planners, architects, mobility experts as well as developers discussed the concerns with regard to sustainable mobility and infrastructure within special residential zones (SRZs) that are coming up in the city outskirts. According to the Confederation of [...] Continue Reading »
The office space absorption in Hyderabad grew 5 % while overall office space absorption across top eight cities of the country plummeted 21% to 13.4 million sft as compared to 16.9 million sft in the first half of 2011, according to a study by global real estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield. This steep drop in office [...] Continue Reading »
The dipping rupee value in the past few months has brought a lot of cheer to Non Resident Indians. The Indian real estate market has now turned sluggish and the depreciating rupee adds more power to NRIs dollars and leads them to acquire properties at cheaper rate. Anuj Puri, chairman & country head, Jones Lang [...] Continue Reading »
