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In a noteworthy step taken up by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), a special drive held for two days at all ten zone offices saw settling of 800 pending cases. The property owners’ applications were stuck for over a year even after they had submitted all the required documents. Most of the cases involve issuing [...] Continue Reading »
Yet another story of lack of political consensus coming in way of urban reform surfaces in Punjab when BJP opposes the imposition of property tax in Punjab as drafted by its political ally SAD. Punjab is aiming to generate more revenue to help out the fund starved finance department. As a consequence of BJP’s opposition, [...] Continue Reading »
In a new move, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to start linking property tax on newly constructed houses promptly. The tax would be linked as soon as the building completion certificate (BCC) is issued to the developer. The move came across as an effort to increase revenue for the NMC by levying house [...] Continue Reading »
Tata Group, which is currently building a shopping mall in Amritsar, plans to take its Trillium mall brand nationwide in order to outfit in the country’s beneficial modern retail sector. The 700,000 sq ft mall will be ready by the end of this year or by early next year. The company has three more malls [...] Continue Reading »
The Andhra Pradesh Government’s decision of relaxing building norms for large housing projects and levy shelter fee for housing of the poor is expected to boost up the state’s real estate business. The new Government Order passed last week has relaxed an earlier provision made in January 2011, in which builders should compulsorily reserve a [...] Continue Reading »
While opposing the proposed increase on property tax in the civic budget, the Nashik Municipal Corporation‘s (NMC) standing committee (SC) points out at alternative areas of revenue generation. They have suggested levying of commercial tax on small businesses operating out of domestic premises. Standing committee chairman Uddhav Nimse stated that out of 1,132 galas owned [...] Continue Reading »
Greater Noida Authority has been offering a zero period to builders for paying installments. This seems to have motivated the homebuyers of Noida Extension. The buyers, forming a group of around 80 members, on Monday, demanded banks to waive off interest paid on EMIs during the land row period. Although builders have promised not to [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate sector in Thiruvananthapuram is mainly focusing on the city centric areas as the relators believe that people prefer to stay in than city outskirts. Builders are redesigning the apartments by reducing floor ratio in order to make them affordable for middle-income group of buyers. According to Artech CEO, T S Asok, the [...] Continue Reading »
Sobha Developers, Bangalore-based real estate company, has given a new sales guidance for the year of $363 million (Rs 2,000 crore) for this fiscal. For the same period last year, the developer managed sales of $309 million (Rs 1,700 crore). In the second quarter of FY12, the realtor launched Sobha West Hill in Coimbatore. It [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate developers of Delhi are resting at ease as the master plan for Greater Noida 2021 gets a step closer to approval. They believe that they would be able to resume construction once the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) gives the proposal a go-ahead. Though the final clearance from NCRPB is yet [...] Continue Reading »
