Housing regulator
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 »
Nachiket Mor, central board member of RBI suggested the National Housing Bank (NHB) to work on a benchmark index for floating interest rates in housing loans. He also said that such indexes could result in the expansion of unoriginal market based on it. He also added that the indexes must be customer oriented. He also [...] Continue Reading »
Maharashtra government is all set to have a first-of-its-kind housing regulator. Orders can be passed by the regulatory body so that 10 per cent of the total project can be transferred to buyers who can sell it further in the market to cross-subsidise the construction cost. To achieve this, builders will not be allowed to [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra Housing Bill 2012 has finally been passed by both Houses of the Maharashtra legislature, which sets the stage for the development of the country’s first housing regulator and appellate board with substantial powers to protect the consumer and penalize the builders in case of any offense. The Bill has laid down the rules [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the onset of new regulator for housing society in Delhi, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) could lose its role. The central finance ministry has plans of introducing a new regulator instead of DDA to check housing sector in the city. The ministry is likely to face some resistance from the local authority as the [...] Continue Reading »
