Cities
The Zirakpur Municipal Corporation was directed not to sanction for construction of illegal colonies in the area by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Counsel for Zirakpur MC stated that the plans for unauthorised colonies were being sanctioned as directed by the Punjab government. However, HC puts stop on any further construction of unauthorized colonies [...] Continue Reading »
According to Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), residential property launches across major cities in India fell by nearly 44% to 17,500 units in the second quarter of 2012. C&W cites the prime reasons behind the fall being delay in approvals, significant inventory in certain places and postponement of project to accord new launches with the festival [...] Continue Reading »
There seems to be no end to DLF’s legal feuds as cases are piling up against the developer for a wide range of reasons including unfair business practices for the last couple of years. In the latest event, more than a dozen investors dragged DLF to court, accusing it of downgrading their investments in an [...] Continue Reading »
Notwithstanding the prevailing negative sentiment, commercial real estate services firm CBRE says retail real estate market in India seems to be promising. In its survey titled ‘India Retail Market view’, CBRE states that leading brands and retailers are pursuing expansion plans aggressively across India. The survey mentions that leading brands are increasing their presence across [...] Continue Reading »
The sales tax department of Mumbai raided offices of 15 builders including Marathon, Ajmera, Keystone, Bhoomi realty, Naman and Acme, for evading payment of value added tax (VAT) and recovered Rs 20 crores. The Bombay high court had upheld the 1% VAT imposed on the sale of properties by the state in April. The builders had [...] Continue Reading »
According to a Reuters poll, house prices in India have no signs of coming down in the current financial year. House prices have almost doubled in the past five years and the scenario continues to look gloomy for the buyers. However, as per the poll prediction, prices in Mumbai have a fair chance to fall [...] Continue Reading »
Residential property sales across Bangalore have dropped up to 40 per cent in April-June quarter as compared to the peak of Q4 2012. The city’s realty markets, where real estate sales are largely driven by IT clientele (60-65 per cent), have been going through a sluggish period. According to Karvy Institutional Research, a brokerage firm, [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the collapse of an electricity grid, around eight states in North India had a major power blackout on Monday. It took more than half a day for the authorities to fully restore supply to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chandigarh. It is considered that, the [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate firms and property consultants today expressed disappointment over RBI’s decision to keep rates unchanged. There were no change in the rates in previous policy announcement and the real estate sector was expecting a rate cut this time around. Experts maintain that the sector urgently needs cut in interest rates to boost housing demand. [...] Continue Reading »
Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd has entered into a joint development pact with Hinduja Estates for development of the 76 acre company land in Hyderabad. As per sources, the project is to be completed in five-six years and will be located at the company’s campus close to the busy residential-cum-business hub in Kukatpally. As per agreement, [...] Continue Reading »
