Real Estate Sector
A real estate and management web portal, Commonfloor.com has raised second round of fund from existing investors, Accel India and Tiger Global Management, a New York-based investment firm. The amount has not been disclosed by the firm. Firstly, the firm has raised fund from Accel India in 2009.The second round fund raising will be used [...] Continue Reading »
DMI Finance is in the process of raising 1,000 crore to invest in the real estate sector. The company was founded by the former Citigroup employees Shivashish Chatterjee and Yuvraj C Singh. The company will target an equity and debt corpus of 500 crore each and it will target over 20% internal rate of return, [...] Continue Reading »
A recent survey shows that real estate sector remains the preferred asset for investors in India. It is being followed by gold and silver. The investment pattern in the country suggests that investment flow have been highest in the traditional modes of investments such as in properties and gold or silver. Given the uncertain economic [...] Continue Reading »
The housing projects in Gujarat are expected to become costlier by about 10-15% in case the rising input costs of material and labour are not reined on time, said the Gujarat Institute of Housing & Estate Developers (GIHED). The GIHED also has taken intervention from the government to keep a check on the spiralling prices of [...] Continue Reading »
In the ongoing series of discussions to provide relief to real estate sector, developers have asked for relaxation of funding norms. Deliberation between Indian Bankers Association (IBA) and Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) saw developers called for the easing of financing norms to ease the cash crunch of the developers. The [...] Continue Reading »
Lalit Kumar Jain, president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) has stated that corruption is the biggest trouble glaring the real estate sector. At the opening address of 12th NATCON, the Credai president remarked that that the humiliating approval process and corruption is to blame for the problems of developers [...] Continue Reading »
National President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) – Lalit Kumar Jain has asserted that reforms are necessary to boost the struggling realty sector. He says that there is a shortage of 31 million houses in India of which 26 million are in the economically weak and low income group [...] Continue Reading »
Experts say that the present slowdown in the economy can be turned to a projected growth with a revival in the real estate sector. When India’s economic growth had slowed down to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09 from 9.3 per cent in the previous year, the revival of the real estate sector with a growth in [...] Continue Reading »
In order to give a boost to the real estate sector, financial services secretary D K Mittal has asked banks to focus on funding of partially completed residential projects on a priority basis. Funding projects in small towns has also been asked to prioritise. In a meeting with Indian Bankers’ Association (IBA) and developers body [...] Continue Reading »
To cater to the needs of senior citizens, who want to live a comfortable retired life, exclusive townships for senior citizens are coming up in various places. One such township is at Neral, at the foothills of Matheran, Maharashtra, which provides comfortable living experiences along with amenities. Similarly, Athashri, a project of Paranjape Schemes in [...] Continue Reading »
