Category: Expert Views

SBI

State Bank of India initiates Home Buyer Finance Guarantee Scheme.

January 11, 2020

To provide a booster to the property market, on January 8, India’s leading lender, State Bank of India, has unveiled a guarantee scheme for home buyer funding whereby, if the developer fails to deliver the house within a predetermined time, the lender will reimburse the entire amount of the principal. Until the occupation certificate is […]

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Rental housing

Nanma Properties, part of the Eastern Group is going to enter into Affordable Housing Market.

Nanma Properties, part of the Eastern Group has established preparations for entrance into the affordable housing market. The decision of the Group reflects the declaration by the Central Government of the subsidies for the affordable housing sector. Navas Meeran, Chairman of the Eastern Group, said Nanma Properties Ltd will invest Rs 2,500 crore in an […]

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Mumbai Metro

Mumbai developers approached MMRC to get direct access to Metro stations through their projects.

January 9, 2020

As the real estate market is still in a major slump, some of the biggest developers have found a new way of drawing customers to their high-end projects. They also addressed Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) to provide them with direct access to the underground stations of the 33.5 km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 from their current […]

Mumbai developers approached MMRC to get direct access to Metro stations through their projects.more
Home loan

Authority demands reduction of interest rate on home loans.

The real estate industry has urged the government to lower the interest rate on home loans to 7% and to raise the deduction of income tax on interest paid on housing loans to Rs 5 lakh to help revive demand after home sales rose by just 1% in 2019. The industry body National Real Estate […]

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affordable homes

Real Estate bodies seek to develop more properties under the affordable housing scheme.

January 7, 2020

With finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February presenting the Union Budget 2020-21, real estate chambers pursued to dilute the definition of affordable housing in order to enable more properties to fall within its scope and take advantage of the opportunities. The concept of affordable housing currently means a house or flat in non-metropolitan cities and […]

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construction

Real Estate Sector Forecast: Residential and Non-Residential construction is likely to grow in India.

January 3, 2020

On December 30th, Fitch Solutions said it expects the residential and non-residential building sector of the country to grow by 6.6% in 2020, led by fiscal support and increased focus on providing affordable housing in urban areas. “A mix of tax support and government policies supporting the housings market, and enhanced activity within the logistics, […]

Real Estate Sector Forecast: Residential and Non-Residential construction is likely to grow in India.more
invest

Colliers International Report – Indian real estate sector to attract USD 6.5 billion investment.

January 2, 2020

This year investment in the property industry in India, driven mainly by a large demand of commercial IT companies’ office properties, is likely to rise by 5% to USD 6.5 billion (around Rs 46,000 crore), according to the global real estate consultant Colliers. The real estate market gained USD 6.2 billion last year, up 8.7% […]

Colliers International Report – Indian real estate sector to attract USD 6.5 billion investment.more
MahaRERA

MahaRERA took suo moto action against 21 developers.

December 31, 2019

The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) took action against 21 real estate developers, who have not followed the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act (RERA) registration, and also did not apply a list of customers who booked their homes for further action under Section 7 and 8 of the RERA Act.  The provisions of […]

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Real estate investment

Consumers and Lawyers declare their unhappiness for the complaints under MahaRERA.

December 30, 2019

When it comes to registering real estate projects and also concerning grievances, Maharashtra can have the best place between states. Nonetheless, that is where the distinction stops. The state has no information to simplify the purchasing decision for the consumers. The action-taken-report remains missing; moreover, most of the consumers and lawyers are unhappy about the […]

Consumers and Lawyers declare their unhappiness for the complaints under MahaRERA.more
Hardeep Singh Puri

State minister Hardeep Singh Puri, speaks about 1.20 crore job creation under PMAY-Urban.

December 28, 2019

On December 27, Hardeep Singh Puri, State Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs said that approximately 1.20 crore jobs have so far been generated under PMAY-Urban through forward and backward linkages to around 250 auxiliary industries including steel, brick kilns, cement, paint, hardware, sanitary etc. According to investments made within the scheme about 568 lakh […]

State minister Hardeep Singh Puri, speaks about 1.20 crore job creation under PMAY-Urban.more