Indian real estate sector
Real estate consulting firm Knight Frank in their latest report entitled ‘Economy & Realty @ Glance’ for August 2012, has stated that banking institutions have cut down on their lending to the Indian real estate sector. The report says that the waning interest of the banking sector towards commercial real estate lending has been reflected [...] Continue Reading »
The Competition Commission of India (CCI), is putting around 70 real estate developers in the country under scanner. The developers include big players like Unitech, Parsvnath Developers and Omaxe and several big builders in Mumbai. All these developers’ action for entering into one-sided agreements with buyers and for allegedly colluding with each other have been [...] Continue Reading »
The Revenue Department has declared that it is going to introduce changes in the accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has stated that the report of the CBDT appointed committee on accounting standard for the real estate sector [...] Continue Reading »
Analysts say that interest of overseas funds in the Indian real estate sector is intact but the approach has changed. The investors have turned their focus on specific project. About $2 billion private equity had come into the real estate sector in the past two years and funds were keen to make investments after considering [...] Continue Reading »
Right pricing and small ticket sizes seem to have placed South Indian real estate in a much better place than real estate players in Mumbai and Delhi. Bangalore and Chennai seem to get their property strategy right. When most developers in India are battling high interest rates, sluggish sales, delays in new launches and a [...] Continue Reading »
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (Credai), Pune Metro, has opposed state government’s order asking them to pay value added tax (VAT) on flats that were sold between June 2006 and March 2010. The number of flats that were sold during the period in Pune is estimated to be over 1.5 lakh. [...] Continue Reading »
The slowdown in the Indian realty sector has been reflected in the books of DLF, the largest player in the segment. The net profit of DLF, India’s largest real estate company, fell 18 per cent to Rs 292 crore for the quarter ended June. The dip is quite huge compared to Rs 358 crore for [...] Continue Reading »
The Center has finalized a central law to regulate India’s growing real estate sector and prevent realtors from targeting property buyers through unfair practices. The law ministry has cleared the draft of the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Bill, proposed by the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry. The bill proposes the setting up of [...] Continue Reading »
According to a Reuters poll, house prices in India have no signs of coming down in the current financial year. House prices have almost doubled in the past five years and the scenario continues to look gloomy for the buyers. However, as per the poll prediction, prices in Mumbai have a fair chance to fall [...] Continue Reading »
According to a new report, realty sector of India, which has been floating in loss and debts of builders, over past few years, seems to have begun to rise from the bottom. Aashiesh Agarwal, real estate analyst at Edelweiss Securities, expressed his views on the progress of real estate, in the report released on Wednesday. [...] Continue Reading »
