Mumbai
The BMC has made an attempt for the betterment of senior citizens, by framing a special policy which will be executed from October 1, observed as International Day for Senior Citizens. A new committee for the welfare of senior citizens will be formed. The Federation of Senior Citizens Organisations, Maharashtra (FESCOM) has presented a proposal [...] Continue Reading »
The Mumbai apartments sale in the financial year 2012 dropped by more than 60% from its peak in 2007 and 35% from 2011. The city’s real estate market has stagnated with only 45,000 apartments sold in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) during 2011-12, well below the market average of 80,000 units annually. A report released by Knight Frank research [...] Continue Reading »
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) will be inquiring Niranjan Hiranandani, the co-founder of Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group, with regard to a criminal complaint case filed against him in connection with suspected irregularities in a housing project. A special court has directed the ACB, while hearing the complaint filed by activist Santosh Daundkar against Hiranandani, for allegedly cheating [...] Continue Reading »
Realtors are reducing their staff as debts loading and sales decline while there is no remarkable improvement observed on fresh projects for the past one year. The heat is mainly on the marketing and sales teams of several real estate firms and their situation is pathetic. Since the number of new projects has reduced due [...] 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 »
DLF, leading real estate developer of India, held back by debt and sluggish demand, is shifting back its focus on the familiar territory of its home market. The firm concentrates on building high-end luxury homes in North India while new projects in other parts of the country see a downtrend. Its overall focus in the [...] 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 money transfers to India by NRIs will not come under the realm of service tax as said by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Kerala chief minister, Oommen Chandy, said that the Prime Minister has dismissed all the reports related to levy of tax on the money of Indians working abroad. The Prime Minister asked for [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate sector has been lying low due to lesser cash inflow in both the commercial and residential segments, hoping that there will be a change in liquidity levels soon. The macro-economic factors such as high interest rates, high land costs, etc. which have a direct effect on the sector, seem not to improve [...] Continue Reading »
