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According to National Housing Bank (NHB) data, housing prices have risen by up to 10.5 per cent in 16 major cities of the country in the April-June period, while only three towns have witnessed a marginal fall. The data is taken from NHB ‘RESIDEX’ which tracks the movement in prices of residential properties on a [...] Continue Reading »
DLF has signed a binding agreement with Mumbai-based Lodha Developers and the Rs 2,700 crore deal is expected to be completed by the end of October 2012. To finance the acquisition, Lodha has initiated talks with private equity players. Abhishek Lodha, managing director, Lodha Group, stated that the Group plans to fund the purchase of [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore real estate is presenting a different picture than most of the other cities in India. An example at hand, Bangalore-based realty firm Prestige Estates Projects Ltd, has robust home sales and office space leasing looking to surpass its own forecast for fiscal 2012. It also has a strong pipeline of launches. This is at [...] Continue Reading »
From the last seven years, sewage has been pouring into Gorewada lake which supplies water to 70 per cent areas of the city, yet, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been completely unaware of it. The NMC officials decided to take action against this only after several complaints by the BJP corporator from Dhaba, Jagdish Gwalbanshi. [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Venkatadrinagar in ward 72 in Visakhapatanam city continue to suffer the effects of unauthorised cremation in their colony, despite a court order favouring them and action by municipal corporation. Venkatadrinagar Residents’ Welfare Association had filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking a direction to officials to declare the site being [...] Continue Reading »
Property tax for the commercial properties located within a radius of one kilometres from a Metro line may soon see a hike, however residential properties will be spared from the hike. All five-star and three-star hotels, private hospitals and industrial areas in the city will also be brought under the same tax net. Leaders of [...] Continue Reading »
The SGS Mall has said that the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has made an increase of 900 per cent in the annual property tax. Subhash Gulati, CMD, SGS Mall said the mall was paying an annual property tax of Rs 19.54 lakh every year adding that in 2010 the PCB revised the property tax of the mall, increasing it [...] Continue Reading »
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has finally started the exercise to impose property tax on residential properties in the city. The accounts wing of the corporation has wrote to 25 government departments and organizations besides housing societies to submit details regarding their residential accommodations in the city within a period of one month. The information has been sought from Chandigarh [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India (SBI) has offered an all-time low interest rate to its customers interested in investing in the sector. SBI offers a low interest rate of 10.25 per cent for housing loans up to 30 lakhs and 10.4 per cent for amount above 30 lakhs, said Avinash Kumar, SBI chief manager. A three [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai has fallen in the mortgage market rankings as record real estate prices keep customers away, say realty and home finance executives. Pune and New Delhi have overtaken India’s financial capital with steady demand, while Mumbai has fallen to third or fourth position for housing finance. Mumbai used to be number one in the real estate market, but not many new projects [...] Continue Reading »
