Cement
In a recently-released report, rating agency CARE Ratings has revealed that the improved price of cement will likely bring about a notable improvement in the profitability of domestic cement manufacturers in the current fiscal year, owing to higher realisation. CARE said in its report that despite the fact that “monsoon impact” may cause a partial [...] Continue Reading »
The changes are made by the Corporate Affairs Ministry to avoid confusion among share holders and bring consistency to its recent guidance. There will not be two classes of companies for reduction purpose as it was mentioned in the new company law schedule for depreciation. The ministry also restored revenue-based amortisation for toll-roads developed under [...] Continue Reading »
Due to recession in industrial and real estate sectors and decline in the LBT rates of some of the commodities the revenue of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) through the local body tax (LBT) has declined by 13.46% to Rs 601.88 crore in the current fiscal year as compared to the revenue collected during the [...] Continue Reading »
A fall of 41 per cent of Net Profit in the quarter ended December 2013,has been registered of top 25 real estate companies, in comparison to peak period of quarter ended March 2012.As per the report by global realty consultancy Knight Frank the net profit margin have fallen from 13.6 per cent to 9.7 per [...] Continue Reading »
A survey by Ficci founds that the industry sees a poor demand over the next 3 months. Tortured by the econonic slowdown and high interest rates is responsible for industry trouble and there was little chance of improvement in upcoming 6 months. The Survey by Ficci found that not only the cost but even the [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Good news to builders and developers whose projects have been kept on hold due to liquidity crisis. The finance ministry has planned to initiate a measure which is expected to improve the realty sector. Banks will be allowed to permit funds to stalled projects, which would revive the growth in economy. As per RBI‘s [...] Continue Reading »
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has reported that real estate demand has remained moderate. Even the festive season’s special offers failed to bring in husky demand for properties. The survey was carried out in major cities like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh and Dehradun and gathered [...] Continue Reading »
The steady pricing that Bangalore real estate has maintained so far has been good news for the buyers. But things are expected to change as the Bangalore real estate market is expected to shoot up from the next quarter. The main pushing factors are increase in cement and steel prices in the last couple of [...] Continue Reading »
Knight Frank’s latest report focuses on uncovering the relationship between the developer and the suppliers of factor inputs such as Land and Construction costs. Land is the most significant input for property development. Analysis of land allotment policy of some of the major land aggregators provides interesting insights: City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) follows [...] Continue Reading »
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) said that the market watchdog, SEBI, should categorize housing finance companies (HFCs) as a separate sector from Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) to attract more fund flows. It suggested SEBI not to club HFCs with NBFCs for the purposes of sectoral limits proposed for investments by [...] Continue Reading »
