Punjab
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) supporting the suggestion of Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s has asked to reduce the property prices of housing stock to its members of Punjab. The members who are against the move said that developers are already selling these inventories at low prices. However developers explained this by stating the [...] Continue Reading »
Slowdown in the real estate sector has badly affected Punjab’s revenue collection from stamp duty and registration fee. There has been a decline of 15 per cent in receipts, compared to the same period in the previous financial year. Property dealers have been badly affected due to the slowdown of market as deals have decreased. [...] Continue Reading »
Developers in Punjab has opposed the state government’s move to levy social infrastructure cess on property transactions. Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), Chairman, Anil Chopra stated that it would hit demand in the real estate sector which is already undergoing slowdown. Poor demand in real estate sector can be gauged from [...] Continue Reading »
The new property tax policy of the state government of Punjab has not gone down well with the citizens of Ludhiana. The property tax rates fixed at 1 per cent for residential, 1.5 per cent for institutional, 2 per cent for industrial and 4 per cent for commercial property are being considered very high by [...] Continue Reading »
In order to earn additional revenue of about Rs 1000 crores, Punjab Cabinet has decided to impose property tax on vacant lands among various other measures. Along with built up buildings, vacant plots and semi-built up units have also been brought under the purview of the proposed tax. All vacant plots would attract 25 per [...] Continue Reading »
Experts have said that real estate investment are expected to go up significantly in Punjab in the days to come due to the state’s political stability and the rupee-dollar volatility. A recent study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) titled Growth Agenda for Punjab noted that Punjab had 49.7 percent [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the collapse of an electricity grid, around eight states in North India had a major power blackout on Monday. It took more than half a day for the authorities to fully restore supply to Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chandigarh. It is considered that, the [...] Continue Reading »
As a responsive measure to the depletion of groundwater at a great speed, the apex body for real estate Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has decided to adopt rain water harvesting as corporate social responsibility (CSR) this year. The announcement comes two days following the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab and Haryana high court order barring developers from using ground water continues to draw sharp reaction from developers. The developers blamed the government stating that in spite of collecting external development charges (EDC) and infrastructure development charges (IDC) from them, the government has put them in a precarious situation. They argued that Haryana [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday stopped issuing new licenses to developers in Gurgaon, because of the depleting groundwater situation, which has come as a relief to the residents in the area as they have been facing severe water crisis. Most of the Gurgaon is dependent on groundwater and more than 60 MGD [...] Continue Reading »
