Real Estate Developers
In 2008, conveyance deed was first introduced in the real estate market to protect the interest of home buyers. But this year, hardly 1,200 housing societies have applied for conveyance certificate out of 88,000 and only 700 of them got the deed. The Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in a recent meeting said that a statewide drive will [...] Continue Reading »
To increase the redevelopment work of the damaged buildings, the BMC has come up with an improved market policy to make it productive for developers. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will certainly levy less quality on the sale component of the project and for fungible FSI the estate department will not charge anything. The development plan department will charge [...] Continue Reading »
A recent announcement made by the real estate developer, DLF stated that they are expecting to sell of their luxury hotel chain; Aman Resorts along with the sale of its wind power business in few months. These transactions will help the firm to achieve the net debt level of about 18,000 crore by the end [...] Continue Reading »
After the Reserve Bank of India’s decision to hold the rates, real estate developers say that although they welcome the reduction in cash reserve ratio (CRR), they are disappointed with the fact lending rates have remained the same. In the policy announcement, RBI cut banks’ Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 25 basis points (bps), while [...] Continue Reading »
The flat owners association and civil society organisations accused the builders’ lobby for inducing confusion among flat owners about payment of value added tax (VAT), through social advertisements. Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has published advertisement about collection of VAT. As soon as the advertisement was out, the local builders sent [...] 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 »
As a result of funding gap, many housing projects have been shut down and as a result, economy has slowed down. The government has directed many banks across the state to unblock values of stalled projects and provide financial dose to turn them viable. National housing bank (NHB) decided to begin the search for the [...] Continue Reading »
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected a complaint regarding alleged abuse of dominance by real estate developer Supertech. The developer was cleared off charges as the fair trade regulator did not find any evidence to support the charges. CCI maintained that there was nothing on record indicating any evidence of dominance of Supertech. [...] Continue Reading »
Faced with sluggish sales and rising cost of production, builders across the country are increasingly turning to technology, looking to innovative ways in construction business. The cost of building materials such as cement and steel has risen by 35-40 per cent over the past two years. Added to it, the labour rates have also got [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore-based real estate developer, Sobha Developers, has achieved a record milestone in the history of the company in terms of new space sale. The company has sold over 0.95 million square feet of new space valued at Rs 527 crore at an average price realisation of Rs 5, 575 per square feet for the recent [...] Continue Reading »
