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 […]
Authority demands reduction of interest rate on home loans.more
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 […]
Real Estate bodies seek to develop more properties under the affordable housing scheme.more
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
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
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 […]
MahaRERA took suo moto action against 21 developers.more
The Economic Offenses Wing of Mumbai Police On Friday, in a Metropolitan magistrate court, filed a 32,000-page charge sheet against five persons at multi-crore Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank scam. The charge sheet has been marked by Joy Thomas, former director of the bank, Waryam Singh, former chairman, Surjit Singh Arora former director of […]
EOW filed 32,000- page charge sheet against the promoters of HDIL and others.more
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
The Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) administrator allegedly issued total debt settlement demands of about Rs 1.2 lakh crore from creditors after the RBI referred debt settlement to the indebted Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC). “The lenders have filed their claims including debenture holders, secured lenders and depositors. So far the amount is about Rs 1.2 […]
DHFL administrator issued debt settlement- receives Rs 1.2 lakh crore claims from creditors.more
According to property consultancy firm Anarock, in 2019, the price gap between ready-to-move-in (RTM) and under-construction (UC) homes has fallen to mere 3–7% in the top seven cities. There is a decline in the price differential between the two categories year on year. The difference in 2018 was around 5-9%, but in 2017 it was […]
The price difference between under-construction and ready-to-move homes decreases to 3-7%.more
Over the last four years, co-working has been geared to its growth. India is at the forefront of a working revolution with several companies and SMEs rather work out of co-working areas rather than traditional offices. Many small and large players set up operations in 2019, and in the seven top cities in India, there […]
The increasing demand for Co-working space in MNCs, Corporates and SMEs.more
