Infrastructure Investment Trusts
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said on Sunday, August 10, that Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) can make investments in a project either directly or through special-purpose vehicles (SPVs). However, the Sebi guidelines for InvIT investments in projects clearly specify that, in case of public-private partnership (PPP) projects, investments can be made by [...] Continue Reading »
On August 10, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) – India’s capital market regulator – gave a long-pending go-ahead to a proposal underscoring the launch of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). The approval to REITs by the Sebi board unfolds an opportunity for cash-strapped developers to gain easy access to funds for completing their [...] Continue Reading »
The new norms that have been announced for setting up of real estate and infrastructure investment trusts will help attract more foreign investors to these key sectors and facilitate inflows worth $15-20 billion from domestic and overseas sources, according to industry experts and officials. The capital market watchdog Sebi during its board meeting today approved [...] Continue Reading »
Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) can invest in a project either directly or through special-purpose vehicles, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said on Sunday. However, in most of the cases of public-private partnership projects, such investments are only allowed through SPVs. The different sponsors of an InvIT need to collectively hold at least [...] Continue Reading »
While the fine print yet to be figured out, estimates of around $10 billion or more of foreign funds could flow into Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) over the next few years appear somewhat far-fetched at this juncture. In order to be sure, there could be a thriving market in REITs one day but given [...] Continue Reading »
The Sebi board has recently cleared new norms for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs). Sebi Chairman U K Sinha has said in a recent statement that, under the new norms, entities with at least Rs 2 lakh investment will be able to benefit from returns from completed realty projects. With [...] Continue Reading »
SEBI is looking forward to finalise norms for the real estate or infrastructure investment trusts because of its upcoming board meeting which is going to be held in New Delhi on the 9th of August. This will be making the way for such entities so that they can list on the exchanges in what could [...] Continue Reading »
REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) were introduced in the budget session this year by finance minister Arun Jaitley. It will allow us to own a small part of every piece of property we walk into, be it the restaurant down the street, a friend’s flat or our office buildings. On top of that about 90 [...] Continue Reading »
The Modi government is trying hard to revive the real estate, infrastructure, manufacturing and all other sectors in India. In order to revive the real estate sector last month, the newly elected Union government unveiled a series of structural reforms. These recognize the need to provide alternative sources of funding to the real estate sector. [...] Continue Reading »
The final guidelines for REITs (Real Estate investment Trusts) was announced by the capital markets regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) on Sunday. The property players were given enough room to float and these guidelines also built-in adequate safeguards for the investors. The minimum size of assets that a REIT must have, to [...] Continue Reading »
