Cities
Value & Budget Housing Corporation (VBHC), co-founded by former MphasiS chairman Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao and former Citibank Consumer Banking Head P S Jayakumar, has announced an expansion plan of Rs 300 crore. The company will launch nine projects of budget homes across Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, NCR and Baroda, offering a total of 2,500 units. VBHC [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai has witnessed new launches of around 3,600 units in the recent April-June quarter which is more than twice the number of 1,700 housing units launched in January-March, said Abhishek Kiran Gupta and Gagan Agrawal of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The Mumbai real estate is lagging behind for past one year owing to which [...] Continue Reading »
Income-Tax department officials will issue a fresh ‘Property Attachment Notice’ to the Swarnandhra IJMI Integrated Township Development Company Pvt. Ltd. properties at Kukatpally. As sources say, this is an outcome of the developer’s failure to pay a total of Rs 66.59 crore corporate tax. V.V. Rao, Malaysian Township Owners’ Association member, said that the income [...] Continue Reading »
According to the study by Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on PE and merger and acquisition activity in India, Private equity (PE) firms had invested about USD 1.84 billion during the quarter ended June 2012. The investment amount was 34 percent less than USD 2.79 billion invested in the same period last year. Further, [...] Continue Reading »
While banks are being unwilling to provide real estate loans, the Reserve Bank of India has been following a cautious policy to reduce risks associated with realty sector and to ensure that the sector remains sustainable and viable over a long period of time. National Housing Bank (NHB) has also played its role in de-risking [...] 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 Corporation of Chennai has taken up recent initiative to collect an estimated property tax of Rs. 750 crore in the year 2012-13. While the department is hopeful of this renewed tax efforts, there are key challenges ahead which are yet to be addressed. As for reaching the estimated target of 750 crore, groundwork has [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court’s order regarding property tax collection from private developers’ area will not have any impact on the revenue generated from house tax, claimed the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon. The corporation hopes to earn Rs 500 crore through the property tax collection with the current fiscal budget. Senior officers have claimed that behalf of DLF’s [...] Continue Reading »
Although the real estate market remained sluggish, nearly seven million sq ft of office space were leased out during the April-June period, says a survey. Major cities like Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore have totalled over 75 per cent of the entire space absorbed during the three month period, according to a report by global [...] Continue Reading »
Economic slowdown in the country has even hit tax collection in the April-June quarter. Only 6.77 per cent growth in gross direct tax collection has been recorded in the quarter while the target for the year was 15 per cent. The gross tax collection for the quarter was over Rs 1.11 lakh crore as against [...] Continue Reading »
