Surat
The real estate sector in the diamond city of Surat is experiencing a severe shortage of labourers. Strict implementation of police notification on construction workers has led to fleeing of building contractors. The drive started by police to collect photographs and other details in Katargam, Varachha, Puna, Dabholi, Sachin and Udhna has created panic among [...] Continue Reading »
As real estate sector in India faces a dip, domestic lenders with major retail loan are keeping an intense look at the situation. While the hub of realty sector, Mumbai, is going through a slump, the lenders are concentrating on the new emerging markets – Pune, Bhopal, Indore, Surat, Nagpur and Ahmedabad. LIC Housing Finance, [...] Continue Reading »
Three realtors of Surat have been caught with Rs 18.50 crore as undisclosed income to the income tax (I-T) department on Thursday. I-T officials had conducted a search and survey operation under the Income Tax Act, 1961 on few realtors in Varachha and Mota Varachha areas in Surat on Tuesday. About 45 places in the [...] Continue Reading »
Income tax (I-T) officials from Rajkot, Ahmedabad and Surat, on a key operation, carried out searches at 26 and surveys at 25 premises belonging to three builders in the city on Tuesday. The officials are inspecting the offices and houses at Varachha, Katargam, Nana and Mota Varachha and project sites at Vyara in Tapi district, [...] Continue Reading »
Realtors of Ahmedabad have planned to conduct property shows for Non-Resident Gujaratis (NRGs) in North America and Australia. Meanwhile, they intend to gain benefit of the appreciation of dollar value. The conference, ‘Chaalo Gujarat’, will be held from August 31 to September 2 at New Jersey. The Gujarat chapter of Confederation of Real Estate Developers [...] Continue Reading »
Ampulus Capital Advisors, a fund management company formed by the promoters of the Ahmedabad-based Arvind Group, has floated a realty fund with a target of raising Rs 200 crore. The fund mainly focuses on investing in Gujarat real estate projects. The firm has already raised Rs 100 crore and it hopes to distribute the fund [...] Continue Reading »
Edelweiss Housing, a branch of financial service provider Edelweiss Group, aims at taking its total loan-book size to Rs 6,000 crore by 2015, a top company official said. The firm has a loan book size of 900 crore and has set up its housing finance in 2010. Anil Kothuri, Edelweiss Housing Finance Executive Vice-President, told that the company started [...] Continue Reading »
The Gujarat government has planned to drastically reduce the impact fee. The impact fee is a registration charge for legalizing illegal structures in the state’s urban areas. According to sources the state urban development department has decided to fix a “nominal fixed value” for regularizing illegal properties in Ahmedabad and other cities by charging the [...] Continue Reading »
The Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) after over 15 years is planning to launch seven residential schemes in four major cities of the state. The plan is to construct 9100 flats in these seven projects. Out of the seven projects, three projects will be launched in Ahmedabad, two in Rajkot and one project each in Surat [...] Continue Reading »
National Highway Authority of India has awarded the construction of the six-laning project of Vadodara-Surat section of NH-8 to HCC Concessions Ltd. The estimated cost of the project is approximately Rs 800 crore. The entire construction will be completed in a period of 30 months. This infrastructure development work will facilitate the city life of [...] Continue Reading »
