Indian real estate
The apex body for real estate developers, the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI) has said that in order to reduce corruption, the proposed realty regulator should try and minimise the human interface in the process of grating the clearance and registration. Once the regulatory bill comes into force, there should only [...] Continue Reading »
Data produced by Bloomberg TV India shows that the price of residential space has skyrocketed by 6% in six months, and the demand of residential space in Bangalore has gone up by 3% and in Gurgaon the hike is as high as 9%. Whereas, in the past six months, demand of residential property in Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
Experts expect that the new supply in Mumbai realty market could lessen by 20-30% than the prevailing rates as the market has been ravaged with high prices. Around 200 new projects are coming up in June – September and it is estimated that it will launch in cheaper rates. According to a real estate analyst, [...] Continue Reading »
In a move to help the company hedge against the over-exposure to its core market, Indiabulls Real Estate is to launch seven new projects outside Mumbai in the remaining part of 2012-13. The company is to launch residential as well as office projects in Sonepat, Gurgaon, Indore and Chennai. Including a township in Savroli on [...] Continue Reading »
In a move to help the real estate sector, government is planning to give industry status to the real estate infrastructure sector. This move will help the real estate sector to get access to cheaper finance from banks. The proposal for industry status has already been submitted to the finance ministry for its consideration. Getting [...] Continue Reading »
Rupees 38 crore unaccounted money has been seized by the income tax department during raids at the residential and office premises of real estate developers in Surat. According to sources, two real estate groups had disclosed unaccounted income worth Rs 27 crore and another leading realtor has disclosed Rs 11 crore. The search and seizure [...] Continue Reading »
DMI Finance is in the process of raising 1,000 crore to invest in the real estate sector. The company was founded by the former Citigroup employees Shivashish Chatterjee and Yuvraj C Singh. The company will target an equity and debt corpus of 500 crore each and it will target over 20% internal rate of return, [...] Continue Reading »
According to sources, private equity firm, Sun Apollo is to invest up to $50 million on projects developed by Indian real estate company Sobha Developers. Sobha Developers is based in South Bangalore, has built more than 51 million square feet of homes and offices since 1995. Sun Apollo is to invest on project basis and [...] Continue Reading »
As the market witnesses improving liquidity, the borrowing costs for real estate companies are going down. The less borrowing cost would mean an improved balance sheet. Although the change may not be seen clearly as yet. In markets like Gurgaon, there has been a lack of launches and a construction ban because of the water [...] Continue Reading »
Foreign investors continue to elude Indian retail real estate sector despite it being one of the fastest growing markets in the past few years. Industry analysts blame the government’s policy regarding foreign direct investment into real estate, and particularly retail real estate, for discouraging overseas investors investing in India. Anuj Puri, chairman and country head [...] Continue Reading »
