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Supreme Court had earlier asked Sahara group companies to give bank transaction details of Rs 20,000-odd crore which they claimed to have refunded to investors. On August 31, 2012, Sahara Real Estate and Sahara Housing received direction from the Supreme Court to return more than Rs 24,000 crore to investors. The group on Tuesday said [...] Continue Reading »
With increasing debt and low sales months after months, the real estate companies have thought of going to the Institutional Placement Programme (IPP) to sell the shares to the investors. This IPP route will be taken by the builders as against the Offer For Sale (OFS) way to comply with the Sebi norms of public [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has directed to put an end to Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) run by many real estate developers as it suspects investor frauds. It asked the firms to refund the money to investors within three months. Numerous complaints have been lodged with the market regulator by [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity (PE) investments in real estate are showing an uptrend in recent times despite the slump in real estate in India. As per Real Estate Investment Market Report by consultant Cushman and Wakefield, the trend in investments has rose to 7 percent in 2012 resulting in Rs 6,200 crore. Most of the investments were made in ready income generating [...] Continue Reading »
Sahara has caught up in legal battle between Sebi and Supreme Court’s order to refund Rs 19000 crore to the investors. The firm is directed to deposit the amount with Sebi. In order to verify the authenticity of claims of repayment made by the two Sahara companies – Sahara India Real Estate Corporation and Sahara [...] Continue Reading »
A report by Knight Frank Research has found that Technical Group on the Estimation of Housing Shortage has claimed that India has shortage in fresh supply of properties and the number has gone up to 18.78 million in 2012. The slum population is approximated at 94.98 million in 2012 which is more as against mere 1.6 million [...] Continue Reading »
Many projects of Sahara Group of Companies are under the freeze due to the actions by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). The order by Sebi is based on an affidavit filed on behalf of Sahara India Real Estate Corporation and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation to the Supreme Court and in the document [...] Continue Reading »
Sahara Group companies presented a new application to Supreme Court seeking extension of time till February 20 to submit documents related to debentures to SEBI. As Sahara group has a debt of over 22 million to repay to its investors and it looks like the only way the Sahara Group can repay its debt is [...] Continue Reading »
The regulator for the securities market in India, Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has allowed 12 new units to set up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). An AIF is a new set of pooled-in investment vehicles for real estate, private equity and hedge funds, in the last two months of October and November 2012. [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- Interest was evinced by four entities -Karvy, CAMS, NSDL and CDSL regarding the genuineness of about three crore investors in the Sahara case bidding for the job. This was done on behalf of market regulator Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India). A process to select an In-Person Verification (IPV) agency to conduct a face to face verification amongst the three [...] Continue Reading »
