Category: Experts

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 […]

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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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Real estate investment

Homebuyers filed a writ petition in SC challenging IBC amendment.

January 8, 2020

Homebuyers opposed the central government’s ordinance to amend the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016 and demanded a stay of the operation of Section 3 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) 2019, which aims to modify Section 7 of the IBC. “The writ petition is filed by 11 petitioners from 11 different projects, including […]

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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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Metro Construction

Eknath Shinde spoke about the fast-moving metro extension in Maharashtra.

January 6, 2020

On Sunday, Eknath Shinde, newly appointed Minister of Urban Development, said that the government is expected to intensify its work to extend the Pune’s metro network. Shinde, who flagged off the second tunnel-boring machine (TBM) on Sunday for the city’s underground Metro stretch, also said Metro rail projects will be launched after Pune and Nagpur […]

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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% […]

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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 Market

Out of 56 countries – India ranked 47th for housing price appreciation.

In terms of appreciation in housing costs, India ranks 47th in the world as rates grew just gradually in the quarter of July-September by just 0.6%, according to multinational property advisor Knight Frank. In the April-June 2019 quarter, India stood at 11th position with an increase in home prices of 7.7% year on year. The […]

Out of 56 countries – India ranked 47th for housing price appreciation.more
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