Bengaluru
In 1985, BDA passed a notification to acquire survey number 75 in Nagawara for forming the HBR II Stage layout, and the related acquisition was done in 1988. Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) officials on Tuesday recovered four acres of prime land worth Rs 300 crore in Nagawara, North Bengaluru. A building and sheds were erected there illegally, said, officials. [...] Continue Reading »
From the beginning of November, a one-time password (OTP)-based verification will be compulsory for all property registrations in the state. This OTP-based property registrations is intended for restricting duplication and other irregularities during property registration. This move also comes in the wake of the Kaveri Software, which contains the property records database, being hacked. Karnataka has [...] Continue Reading »
CommonFloor compared the apartments launched from 2010 to 2014 in its report “Reducing Apartment Sizes Across Major Metros – A Report” and inferred that apartments sizes have reduced in the last four years. While MMR witnessed a fall of almost 7 per cent during 2011 and 12.4 per cent in 2013, NCR witnessed a fall [...] Continue Reading »
The bid for privatisation of six airports has been postponed to June due to the ongoing general elections, said officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the nodal agency overseeing the bidding process. The due date for the Requests for Qualification (RFQ) for the Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Guwahati airports has been pushed a [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate development wing of the Godrej Group named as Godrej Properties Ltd is going to develop a residential township project in North Bengaluru. The project is spread across 100 acres of area and has the saleable area of nearly 0.87 million square meters (9.4 million sq. ft.) It is close to the new [...] Continue Reading »
Knight Frank Asia Pacific has introduced the market’s first-ever Prime Asia Development Land Index which obtains the cost of prime residential and commercial development land in 13 major cities across Asia that consists of cities like NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai in India. Key Takeaways Mumbai Modification in development rules coupled with increase in prime residential [...] Continue Reading »
The private investment group Xander-backed Virtuous Retail Pte Ltd has appointed S Raghunandan as CEO and also appointed MN Hariharan as director of finance. Mr. Raghunandan has experience of over 30 years and joined Virtuous Retail after serving as CEO Retail of realty firm Prestige Group for the past six years. At Prestige, he handles [...] Continue Reading »
The GMR has moved the AP High Court challenging the decision of the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) in discontinuing collection of user Development Fee for the next two years. The GHIAL has concluded that the AERA has no jurisdiction to fix the UDF and it was the Central government of India who has power [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate prices have remained untouched in last quarter of 2013, regardless of political uncertainty, liquidity issues, high interest rates and cautious sentiments. Property rates at Colaba, Marine Drive, Dombivali, and Ambernath went down by seven to 13 per cent whereas rates went up by 10 to 12 per cent at places like Hiranandani, Lower [...] Continue Reading »
Cushman & Wakefield, global property consultant, said, In the real estate sector private equity investment increased by 13 per cent to Rs 7,000 crore last year on higher inflows in the residential segment. “Total inflows from private equity funds in the real estate sector was recorded at Rs 7,000 crore ($1.2 billion) for 2013, an [...] Continue Reading »
