Investments
L&T Finance Holdings (L&TFH) on Wednesday said that the company would look for the opportunity to venture into banking and await RBI guidelines before taking a step further. N Sivaraman, president and whole-time director at L&TFH said the company did not getting a bank licence and it would wait for the next opportunity as and [...] Continue Reading »
The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) secretary Amitabh Kant on Wednesday stressed on the need for amending the existing Land Acquisition Act stating that it has become difficult to acquire land for construction of roads, ports and creating other infrastructure under the act. He points out that a lot of projects have been [...] Continue Reading »
According to a report by real estate consultancy Cushman and Wakefield, the sector has received lower investments as compared to previous year. Last year, India was the 10th most invested location in the Asia-Pacific region. The report by the consultancy ‘Investment Market Beat-2013’showed that the APAC region received a record $487 billion in the real [...] Continue Reading »
Investments are pouring in Visakhapatnam reason being it is in the race to be the capital of Andhra Pradesh. APIIC has received many applications, with majority of them being pharmaceutical companies, which signifies that it has emerged as one of the most potential business destinations. In Visakhapatnam as per AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC),in just [...] Continue Reading »
Recently, in a conclave held in the city, speakers highlighted that the master plans for Bangalore are just decorative documents with little significance or people connect. PN Sreenivasachari, principal secretary of the transport department on damning previous comprehensive development plans (CDPs) drawn up by the BDA said, there is no idea that all are being [...] Continue Reading »
Government of India’s decision to blacklist Cyprus for not providing tax data is set to hit developers and realty funds. Investors who have taken funds through Cyprus are likely to face a big decline in returns as developers will now be expected to withhold higher tax amounts. The investments have now jumped to 30% which [...] Continue Reading »
The regulator for the securities market in India, Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has allowed 12 new units to set up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). An AIF is a new set of pooled-in investment vehicles for real estate, private equity and hedge funds, in the last two months of October and November 2012. [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Portman Holdings is all set to invest around 65 crore and 83 crore in Promont, a Bangalore project of Tata Housing which is the real estate arm of Tata Group. Portman has picked about 26 to 30 percent stake in the high-end residential project, whose equity valuation is 250 crore. The firm has investments [...] Continue Reading »
Assocham study reveals that the real estate industry is attracting substantial investments in seven of the 20 top well-performing states even as the property market is facing slowdown. Almost 50 percent of Haryana’s investment is being done in realty sector since December 2011. The services sector accounted for about 34 per cent of its total [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate developers of Delhi are resting at ease as the master plan for Greater Noida 2021 gets a step closer to approval. They believe that they would be able to resume construction once the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) gives the proposal a go-ahead. Though the final clearance from NCRPB is yet [...] Continue Reading »
