Category: Expert Views

Partnership

Kolte-Patil Developers and a UK based real estate company will jointly develop a 5.4 acre in Pune.

April 10, 2020

Kolte-Patil Developers, a real estate developer based in Pune, has signed an agreement with UK-based real estate company Planet Smart City to jointly build a more than a 5.4-acre parcel of land in Pune. Kolte-Patil would get Rs 91 Crore for his plot’s monetization. Kolte-Patil’s I-Ven Townships (Pune) a Kolte-Patil subsidiary and the UK developer […]

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Durga Shanker Mishra

Housing Minister: Real Estate will soon get special regulatory measures to get restored the industry.

April 9, 2020

Special guidelines and legislative measures will soon be issued for the real estate industry, including the Real Estate Legislative Act (RERA), to counter this crisis, said Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Housing and Urban Affairs. “We are caught in an unimaginable scenario that has engulfed the whole world in its grip. In these critical days, we […]

Housing Minister: Real Estate will soon get special regulatory measures to get restored the industry.more
BMC

COVID-19: BMC prepares 20 additional hospitals in Mumbai along with quarantine wards.

The coronavirus is Spreading like wildfire, the amount of people in Mumbai testing positive for COVID-19 is rising constantly. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has prepared, with this rise, 20 more hospitals with doctors and nurses at standby. “Two, 140-bed hospitals in Vikhroli and Ghatkopar have been equipped with different entry gates and quarantine wards. In […]

COVID-19: BMC prepares 20 additional hospitals in Mumbai along with quarantine wards.more
Real Estate Investors

DHFL under resolution process, declared to not make any payments to lenders and bondholders.

April 8, 2020

Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) said on Tuesday it would not make any interest or principal payments to lenders and bondholders as the firm is under resolution process. The Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) was started against the debt-ridden corporation in compliance with the 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code regulations with effect from December 3, […]

DHFL under resolution process, declared to not make any payments to lenders and bondholders.more
Court Order

WeWork filed a lawsuit in the US against SoftBank for breaching the contract.

Office-sharing giant WeWork sued SoftBank on Tuesday alleging that Japan-based technology investment group breached its contractual commitments by pulling out a $3 billion rescue plan. The case filed in a U.S. court in Delaware comes only days after SoftBank announced it was pulling out of the plan to acquire WeWork shares and shore up the […]

WeWork filed a lawsuit in the US against SoftBank for breaching the contract.more

PCMC collected Rs 198 crore property tax through an online payment system.

April 7, 2020

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) property tax department raised Rs 198 crore tax via the online payment system, making up the largest portion of Rs 490.11crore’s overall property tax collection for fiscal 2019-20. Smita Zagade, Assistant Commissioner, said this represents the increasing demand for online payment methods. The tax was paid online by owners of […]

PCMC collected Rs 198 crore property tax through an online payment system.more
construction

PMI: UK construction industry experiences the steepest decline in activity in March 2020.

Britain’s construction industry experienced the sharpest decline in activity following last month’s financial crisis, a survey revealed on Monday, despite seeing far less pressure than other sectors that are affected due to coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Also reported last week’s figures from financial data provider IHS Markit and the Chartered Institution of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), indicating the British business sector as a whole is shrinking at the highest pace in more than 20 years.  The construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) plunged to 39.3 in March from 52.6 in February, its lowest since April […]

PMI: UK construction industry experiences the steepest decline in activity in March 2020.more
Maharashtra RERA Rules in Place to Protect Homebuyers from May 1

K-RERA allows three months deadline extensions on all RERA projects.

April 6, 2020

The Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has provided a deadline extension for all residential buildings throughout the city, taking into account the lockdown declared by the state and the union governments. Much of the mass exodus of migrant workers who decided to return to their hometowns before the coronavirus outbreak, the continuing construction projects […]

K-RERA allows three months deadline extensions on all RERA projects.more
Financial crisis

Multiplex Association of India (MAI) request for complete rent waiver.

Cinema halls and multiplex operators have requested the malls’ landlords and developers to fully waive the rent and common area maintenance (CAM) during this lockdown and recuperating period. Unlike other industries, the cinema operators, according to the Multiplex Association of India (MAI), have “zero” revenue during the lockdown period and before that when several state […]

Multiplex Association of India (MAI) request for complete rent waiver.more
High Court

High Court restricts ICRA ltd from publishing Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd credit score.

April 4, 2020

The Delhi High Court on Friday restricted a private credit rating firm, ICRA Ltd, from allowing the Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IHFL) credit score public until April 6. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva’s interim direction came on a request to stop ICRA Ltd from downgrading IHFL’s credit score for failing to include any details the credit rating […]

High Court restricts ICRA ltd from publishing Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd credit score.more