Realty News
In the past, buying or selling a post apartment in Varanasi outskirts was a farfetched dream, forget convincing anyone to buy or sell. The ancient temple town had people who were not interested in the outskirts or moving far away from the center. They were willing to dodge the ways of traffic, snail paced and [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate players apparently have a lot of expectations from the new Government headed by Narendra Modi. Though Modi is yet to officially assume charge as India’s new Prime Minister, the country’s realty sector is hopeful of several realty-specific policy initiatives under his governance. The policy initiatives which the real estate sector is anticipating from [...] Continue Reading »
India’s Tata Housing launched a US$ 400 million mixed development project in Slave Island, Colombo this last week. Tata Housing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata sons and the real estate arm of the Tata Group. The project is a major township rejuvenation initiative, which also aims to provide improved housing units for shanty [...] Continue Reading »
Realty sector experts are expecting the new Narendra Modi-led Government to make a slew of changes to the stagnating legislations pertaining to the real estate industry, and pave the way for a “new India.” Experts who are pushing for modifications of legislations – as well as improved transfer pricing regulations to attract investors – include [...] Continue Reading »
With the real estate market having received a notable impetus from infrastructure growth all over India, developers who have projects coming up close to National Highway 3 (NH3) are optimistic of an imminent rise in realty prices in the near future. Of late, Thane and adjoining areas have developed fairly rapidly, thanks to the increased [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity (PE) funds in India are looking to portfolios of income-producing real estate assets as the country prepares to allow listing of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Redfort Capital, Golden Estates, Kotak Realty Fund and Blackstone Group are few of the PE firms planning to invest in such assets. REIT is a type of [...] Continue Reading »
In the past three years, real estate has been one of the worst hit industries. It has suffered due to various reasons — land prices have stagnated, housing demand has stagnated, commercial demand has shrunk, interest rates have gone up. Access to capital for real estate firms has been restricted by RBI and other factor [...] Continue Reading »
If the prediction of below-normal monsoon by India Meteorological Department (IMD) this year turns out to be true then the availability of unskilled and semiskilled labour for construction and real estate sector is likely to increase. Monsoon is the main source of irrigation in agriculture which supports over 50% of the Uttar Pradesh population. Around [...] Continue Reading »
The residential segment of the real estate market, defies the price determining demand-supply mechanism. The Fitch group’s research arm, India Ratings and Research Pvt. Ltd. recently came up with a report titled “2014 Outlook: Real Estate Sector”. It has been said in the report that the prices of residential units have risen continuously since financial [...] Continue Reading »
Pune real estate sector is witnessing some renewed interests of private equity players. The reasons may be the uninhibited influx of professionals and a robust local economy, which is relatively less affected by the economic downturn, The developers have also ensured a steady demand for homes and offices in the city. This has helped induce [...] Continue Reading »
