Category: Current Affairs

New Housing Launches up by 50% in Q2 2018

July 11, 2018

By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants Affordable Housing Keeps the Momentum Going   Unsold inventory down 2% from 7.11 lakh units in Q1 2018 to 7.0 lakh units in Q2 2018 Unsold inventory declined 10% from 7.7 lakh units in Q4 2017   There has been a whopping 50% jump in overall new housing launches in Q2 2018 […]

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Bengaluru

At Bengaluru’s Yelahanka, sound planning drives real estate growth

By Prashant Thakur, Head – Research, ANAROCK Property Consultants  Despite new launches decline, property prices in Yelahanka did not correct significantly and actually appreciated by 9% in the past 2 years Existing since the 12th century, Yelahanka is closely linked with the origin of Bengaluru. The book ‘Bengaluru to Bangalore’ by T.V. Annaswamy mentions that […]

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Empowered Committee to set up soon for resolving home buyers issues: Housing Minister

July 4, 2018

By Realty Quarter Bureau The empowered committee, set up by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, will reach out to home buyers to resolve their problems ‘at the earliest’, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, on July 1, 2018. The union minister of state (independent charge) for housing and urban affairs said that on June […]

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Shree Cement incorporated two investments firms in Dubai

By Realty Quarter Bureau Shree Cements today informed that it has incorporated two step-down subsidiaries in Dubai International Financial Centre, which would act as investment companies for the group. Shree Global FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, has incorporated Shree Enterprises Management and Shree International Holding. The two incorporated companies will act […]

Shree Cement incorporated two investments firms in Dubaimore

Telangana RERA portal to be launched on August 1

By Realty Quarter Bureau The much awaited Telangana Real Estate Regulatory Authority is soon going to been launched on August1. The Telangana government had issued the rules and appointed a temporary regulatory authority a few months ago, Rera rules are not being implemented in the state as of now. A web portal is required for the registration […]

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Distressed Real Estate – Invest or Avoid?

By Shobhit Agarwal, MD & CEO – ANAROCK Capital The aftershocks of multiple disruptive policy reforms and structural changes continue to ripple through the Indian real estate sector. While its visible transformation from unorganized to organized and opacity to transparency are indubitably positive, we cannot help but count the fatalities of this process. Many real […]

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MahaRERA goes digital: get all projects detail just a click away

July 3, 2018

MahaRERA is making buying a home for a buyer easy day by day. The regulatory body has just made property buying more convenient by putting mapping all the development projects which are registered with them. Now a buyer has not run door to door for project details and information you can access all the detail […]

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Hong Kong will impose vacancy tax on the empty new flats

July 2, 2018

By Reuters Hong Kong proposed a vacancy tax on empty new homes on Friday in an attempt to discourage developers from hoarding, but analysts expect the measure to have little impact on prices in the world’s least affordable property market. The tax, at 200 % of a newly built unit’s rateable value, which is the […]

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GST enters Year 2 – Real Estate Still Flummoxed

By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants The landmark reform of Goods & Services Tax (GST) was, in many ways, the final bullet shot to the Indian real estate sector in July 2017. The industry was already reeling under the immediate impact of DeMo and RERA. GST was touted to be a gamechanger for […]

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Gurugram Real Estate – Q1 2018 vs Q1 2017

By Santhosh Kumar, Vice Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants Residential Real Estate The Millennium City of Gurugram has a very prominent place on India’s residential real estate map and is considered a bellwether of the state of the market for NCR. If we study what happened in the city’s housing market in the first quarter of 2018 against […]

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