NHB
The National Housing Bank (NHB) has decided for the premature closure of its second tranche of public issue of tax-free bonds, this issue opened on March 7 and was planned to close on March 18. NHB got bids for Rs 1,252 crore in all four categories on the first day. The second installment of the [...] Continue Reading »
DHFL Housing Finance plans to offer housing loans at 9.35 per cent interest for 7 years fixed loans up to Rs 15 lakh. The offer is under the National Housing Bank’s Refinance Scheme of Rural Housing Fund. In a release, R Nambirajan, Managing Director, DHFL Housing Finance, informs that from February 1, NHB has reduced [...] Continue Reading »
Even though the demand in the real estate market remains sluggish, property prices have seen a rise. National Housing Bank (NHB) data shows that in the metros, Delhi and Mumbai have recoded property price appreciation of 33.3 per cent and 22.65 per cent, respectively, through the last two and a half years. Jaipur has topped the list of cities [...] Continue Reading »
Guwahati sees highest rise in the real estate prices in the last quarter of 2013 The last quarter of 2013 witnessed Guwahati registering the second highest rise in prices of residential properties among major cities in India. As per the National Housing Bank (NBH), a subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the prices of residential properties in 16 cities [...] Continue Reading »
The Finance Ministry is mulling an option of allowing the long-term funds from such funding institutions to help housing finance companies (HFCs) overcome the asset liability mis-matches. These funds can be channelized to the housing sector either by allowing them to lend to HFCs, or permitting them to invest in Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) [...] Continue Reading »
The prices of residential properties in prime cities of India in the Jan-March 2013 quarter have witnessed an upward trend, shows National Housing Bank (NHB) residential index (Residex). NHB Residex records the movement in prices of residential properties on a quarterly basis. NHB Residex presently covers property price data of 20 cities on a quarterly [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi: With urbanisation expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of more than two percent over the next 20 years, there is a great need to develop better policies to provide mass housing, particularly in the suburbs and satellite towns of metros and Tier I cities. The government has to reform the development [...] Continue Reading »
NBH is setting up an Urban Housing Fund with an allocation of Rs 2,000 crore to infuse liquidity for urban housing and to boost demand in the city. According to NHB, the budget will boost the affordable housing with an additional interest benefit of Rs 1 lakh on first-time home loans up to Rs 25 [...] Continue Reading »
To assess collateral values for home financing, the UPA-II government is planning to attach greater importance and weightage to Residex, an index to capture changes in the prices of residential buildings at the national level. This drive was initiated keeping in mind the need for new financing schemes for the urban slums’ housing. The economic [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi-NCR- The prices of properties, particularly in NCR, are about to witness a downfall in the near future, presume National Housing Bank (NHB). Along with this, 20 percent growth is expected in the residential sector during the current financial year against 17 percent in the last fiscal. Many cities including NCR region have observed fall [...] Continue Reading »
