Category: Features

Housing Societies

PMC makes housing societies’ chairpersons accountable to make the residents home quarantined.

March 24, 2020

Finding it hard to keep a tab on people being asked to be home-quarantined to control coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has now placed the responsibility on the chairpersons of housing societies to see if the respective residents are being confined. The officials of the civic body have agreed to send the list […]

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Bank

Market forecast: Private sector banks may face the maximum risk of bad loans.

March 23, 2020

While the industry and policymakers evaluate the damage caused to the banking system by the Coronavirus attack, a ball-park possible based on the past forecast reveals that, in the worst-case scenario of macro-economic recession, bad loans may grow to 120 basis points with banks in the private sector experiencing high risk. A stress test performed by […]

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construction workers

Realtors’ body rules to provide wages to the construction workers even though they are off work due to COVID19.

March 21, 2020

Realty developers body the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) has opted to pay construction staff even though they are off work owing to sickness or work stoppage at the site in the context of ongoing coronavirus mayhem. CREDAI has mentioned in a letter to members of its realty developers that this change would […]

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Bombay High Court halts property demolition & property auctions until 31st March.

March 20, 2020

On March 19, the Bombay High Court recommended that civic bodies in Maharashtra temporarily refrain from carrying out demolition or auction of property as courts, which are often shifted for relief in such matters, are already operating for restricted hours owing to the coronavirus epidemic. A Division Bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and R I […]

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Interest Rates

CREDAI plans to reset the interest rate along with rescheduling debt repayment.

March 19, 2020

Against the backdrop of the Coronavirus outbreak and its effects on the economy, the body of real estate developers, the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI), seeks to delay the debt repayment scheduled for the next 3 months and to be permitted to recover in installments over the next 12 months. The developers’ […]

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Co-working Space

US-based company Kovorks partnered with Marvel Infrabuild to develop India’s largest co-working space in Bengaluru.

US-based flexible office space provider Kovorks collaborated with city-based Marvel Infrabuild to create India’s largest coworking facility with a capacity of around 25,000 desks. The new luxurious co-working space would extend across 15,000,00 sqft at Whitefield main road. Kovorks already runs versatile offices in seven locations in the US and Malaysia. “India’s co-working market has […]

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Financial crisis

Credai –MCHI reports about 65% of home buyers defaulting on installments.

March 18, 2020

The coronavirus disease has had a crippling impact on the real estate sector with approximately 65% flat buyers defaulting on installments since last week, said Credai -MCHI, the apex body comprising more than 1,400 builders in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR). Worse, there are also reports of the closing down of malls that retail stores will […]

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office

JLL Report: Approx 30% of the Office buildings in the top three cities need refurbishment.

March 17, 2020

As per property consultancy JLL India, approximately 30% of office buildings in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR and Bengaluru are at least a decade old and require refurbishment that might cost over Rs 5,500 crore. The consultancy said in a report ‘Futureproofing 2.0 Upgrading commercial properties to build sustainable value’ after upgrading, rents might increase by up to […]

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Western Railway-Mumbai

Indian Railways to monetize land parcels by leasing it to e-commerce firms.

March 16, 2020

The Indian Railways plan to monetize land plots in smaller cities by leasing them for warehouse setup to e-commerce companies. The Rail Land Development Authority, the statutory authority under the Ministry of Railways, said it was in talks with the largest online store in the country, the Flipkart, and that the interest will soon be […]

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