ECB
The chronic housing shortage in India requires reforms in the banking sector and investment policies. Then only Modi’s dream of Housing for all’ by 2022 will come true. Sunil Mantri the President of National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) stated that currently the bank’s exposure to the realty sector is only 5 %. This is [...] Continue Reading »
Recently RBI extended the deadline for the National Housing Bank (NHB) to raise funds through the external commercial borrowing (ECB) route, by six months. The central bank had allowed NHB and housing finance companies to collect funds up to$1 billion through this route to finance affordable housing loans up to Rs 25 lakh. Mr. RV [...] Continue Reading »
The National Housing Board (NHB) shall raise $200 million through ECB (external commercial borrowing) within the next fortnight. This will ensure will ensure that home loan players meet the $1 billion target of foreign fund raising in FY14. NHB regulates pure-play home financiers. It refinances a part of the housing finance portfolios and acts as [...] Continue Reading »
Indian companies can access funds from abroad through External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) of different kinds. In general, ECB pertains to commercial loans in the form of bank loans, buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, securitized instruments (like floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds, non-convertible, optionally convertible or partially convertible preference shares) obtained from non-resident lenders with [...] Continue Reading »
The government has planned to frame new affordable housing policy to boost up the weakening real estate sector in India. In an announcement by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, it is confirmed that that the government is in the process of finalizing such a policy in two months. The government is [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate in India will not be able to attract more international funds because of its recent market scenario. Hence, the cost of borrowing from overseas would get expensive. The International Funding for ECB, FCCB will also get affected which will ultimately affect Indian GDP. The International Funds would restrict themselves from investing aggressively [...] Continue Reading »
The government wants to make sure that no funds collected through external commercial borrowing for affordable housing scheme, will not be used by any other projects. The government is working on the implementation of the budget announcements. The project specification guideline rule and the routing of funds are under consideration. Government officials are working on [...] Continue Reading »
