Economy
Providing relief to lakhs of homebuyers, FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced an alternative investment fund of Rs 25 crore to help the real estate sector for 1,600 stalled housing projects covering 4.58 lakh units. Government’s aim to give incentive to the real estate market to improve. The decision was approved by the Union Cabinet at a [...] Continue Reading »
With India’s realty sector poised for a turnaround for the better in the near future, leading real estate portal CommonFloor.com plans to scale up its business. CommonFloor presently offers property listings in as many as 200 cities; and it has more than one lakh projects listed on its portal. The site also has over 4 [...] Continue Reading »
National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. (NBCC), a Navratna company under the ministry of urban development, is looking to expand overseas to tap the more than Rs 2,000 crore infrastructure redevelopment and consultancy services market in Maldives, Turkey, Botswana, Oman and Malaysia. We are definitely looking for expansion overseas especially with the expertise in re-development. We [...] Continue Reading »
The Fiscal Year of 2015 is to be a promising one, as the hungry real estate market is finally going to be fed with fresh private equity (PE) investments worth Rs 10,000 to 15,000 crore. The interest to invest in real estate has been fluctuating, as in 2011, private equity investment was Rs 20,000 crore [...] Continue Reading »
One of the assets of the Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) is up for sale. The asset is a three-acre prime land on the eastern corridor of Kolkata. For the sale of the prime land, CSE has hired property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). Going by the estimates of unidentified sources in the realty market, the [...] Continue Reading »
Anil Swarup the Head of the Government’s Project Monitoring Group (PMG) came out with a data which is not very favourable for India Inc. He mentioned that about 230 major projects involving over Rs 5 lakh crore of investments are pending at various stages. From June last year, over 150 projects have been cleared on [...] Continue Reading »
The present government in their first budget may not have had made a big splash as that had been expected but the administration plans that move at the fast speed is ensuring that its proposals are actually being implemented over the next few weeks and that the prime minister is able to celebrate this in [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said foreign investors cannot purchase shares of Repco Home Finance and South Indian Bank as their shareholding in these companies has crossed the threshold limit. This is in a way a good news as there is so much demand for these shares in the market that they are [...] Continue Reading »
The global rating agency Moody in its report mentioned that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) new regulations which were issued last week which allowed the banks to issue long-term local currency bonds are considered as ‘credit positive’. Moody’s vice-president SrikanthVadlamani and associate analyst Nick Caes giving further insight on this development mentioned that these [...] Continue Reading »
The $100 billion diversified Tata Group has further extended to include Tata Capital, a private equity arm responsible for the first external real estate investment of the group. Tata Capital has invested $80 million (Rs 470 crore) in 15% stake and a board seat in Shriram Properties, the Bangalore-based real estate division of the Shriram [...] Continue Reading »
