Mumbai
The apex body for real estate developers, the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI) has said that in order to reduce corruption, the proposed realty regulator should try and minimise the human interface in the process of grating the clearance and registration. Once the regulatory bill comes into force, there should only [...] Continue Reading »
Sources reveal that Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is not in favour of extending the deadline for paying value added tax (VAT) or reducing the tax rate on flat purchases. As the order of paying VAT has been handled by the high court, the chief minister does not want to extend the deadline or reduce [...] Continue Reading »
Within the next two years, Indian Railways is planning to lease land parcels, which is 1,500 hectare (3,700) to earn more than Rs 5,500 crore, according to an official. Around 52 cities where there are surplus land parcels that can be leased out, said an authority. The commercial development of surplus land is undertaken by [...] Continue Reading »
Portman Holdings is planning to raise third party funds to invest in Indian real estate. The fund worth is estimated at $300 million. The company will raise these funds in overseas markets in the first half of 2013. It then plans to deploy the entire corpus in the next 30 months once the fund raising [...] Continue Reading »
Many developers are rolling out special offers ahead of Diwali at the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry’s (MCHI) on-going property exhibition at Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) grounds. Free parking space, club membership offers, removing stamp duty-registration and maintenance charges are some of the primary offers, while the most lucrative offer continues to be a [...] Continue Reading »
Lodha Developers have completed the acquisition of 17-acre land in Mumbai from realty major DLF for Rs 2,725 crores. In August, DLF had announced sale of the land parcel to Lodha Developers for about Rs 2,700 crore and it has been termed the largest realty deal so far this year. DLF had bought the land [...] Continue Reading »
A bunch of petitions were dismissed by the Bombay High Court as the petitions challenged the state government’s decision to levy the builders with a 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) on buildings which were under construction from 2006 to 2010. This rule was declared a day before the tax payment deadline. Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Rajesh [...] Continue Reading »
The residential property sales have become strong with developers launching new projects at lower rates and offering incentives. According to Liases Foras Real Estate Rating and Research, housing sales in top six cities have witnessed a growth of around 30% year on year in three months. While in Mumbai, the sales volume of the most [...] Continue Reading »
Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) has called for the one per cent norm related to VAT payment to be adopted for the retrospective period between 2006 and 2010. The issue is pending with the Supreme Court, which had issued an interim order asking that the VAT on properties sold between the [...] Continue Reading »
With the extension of the deadline to pay the Value Added Tax (VAT) dues by the Supreme Court, now the buyers and the developers are quite relieved. The deadline has been extended October 31 for the VAT on flats purchased in Maharashtra between 2006-2010. Also the SP has directed the Sales Tax Department to waive [...] Continue Reading »
