Category: INDIA / WORLD

New York’s luxury real-estate market is crashing

October 11, 2018

New York is a great city that has been hollowed out by real-estate speculation, where the conversion of housing to safe-deposit boxes in the sky has pushed out the city’s people and the city’s businesses, who can’t compete with financiers and oligarchs who value property as an investment, rather than as part of the fabric […]

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RK’s Home Solution To Take ‘Zero Brokerage’, Real Estate Agents Confused

October 10, 2018

MUMBAI: R.K’s Home Solutions has shaken up the Real Estate Broker’s by its latest advertisement of ‘Ab 2% Dalali Bandh’ (Now no 2% brokerage) only nominal service charge which is refundable after 6 years with T&C. “In order to showcase our efforts of eliminating the 2% brokerage system from Maharashtra by bringing in nominal Service […]

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Real Estate developers turn to IoT, Artificial Intelligence to woo home buyers

nternet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are no longer buzzwords even for real estate developers as they increasingly deploy these as well as home automation to lure homebuyers. Developers are warming up to the idea of incorporating home automation products to their offering, a late addition to the standard amenities list so far. […]

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Real estate transactions, enquiries by NRIs on the rise as rupee depreciates

The depreciation has put more rupees in NRIs’ hands, making properties cheaper for them than they were earlier. As a result, there is an improvement in both inquiries and transactions by NRI in the real estate sector. “The charms to own a property back in their country of origin makes NRIs consider real estate as […]

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Forging India-UAE property ventures

October 9, 2018

CHENNAI: Dubai-based private developer DAMAC’s general manager and son of the chairman, Ali Hussain Sajwani visited Amir Mahal, the ancestral residence of the Prince of Arcot, Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, to pay a courtesy call to the Prince on his first trip to India. The Dewan to Prince of Arcot, Nawabzada Mohammed Asif Ali, said that the […]

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SBI And LIC Offer Loans At Concessional Rates For Flood Affected Kerala

October 8, 2018

SBI, LIC Housing Finance and Muthoot Home are offering loans for concessional rates for renovating homes to help those affected in the flood-affected state of Kerala. SBI, LIC and Muthoot Home Monday are offering loans on concessional rates for the repair and renovation of homes for flood-affected Kerala. The SBI (State Bank of India) will […]

SBI And LIC Offer Loans At Concessional Rates For Flood Affected Keralamore

Singapore-based CapitaLand will be entering the US multifamily market with an $835 million acquisition

October 7, 2018

With rents showing zero signs of slowing down, the multifamily real estate market in the US has attracted some international investors. Two Australian companies Lendlease and First State Super worked in collaboration to launch an investment platform that plans to build a $2 billion multifamily portfolio in the US. Now, Asia’s largest real estate companies are also […]

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Hyderabad – the new growth corridor for real estate

“What do you need to makea location habitable? You need schools, health care and the necessary social infrastructure keeping children and dependents in mind. Working parents, however, do not mind traveling longer for work,” quipped a developer eulogizing the benefits of staying in and around Kokapet, a southwestern suburb of Hyderabad. What he stated is so true when one considers the situation […]

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Knight Frank India, the independent property consultancy today announced that it entered into an MOU with Delos, a wellness real estate and technology firm

The collaboration will leverage Knight Frank India’s property consultancy expertise and Delos’ innovative wellness technologies and programming to advance healthy buildings throughout India. Speaking on the alliance, Shishir Baijal, Chairman and Managing Director, Knight Frank India, said “Economic growth historically has been at the cost of health and happiness of its working population. Our alliance with […]

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Over 53,000 construction labourers in Maharashtra, 90% registered: Govt

October 6, 2018

As many as 48,488 (91%) of the total 53,270 labourers working on construction sites across the state have been registered under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, the Maharashtra government has told the Supreme Court. Senior Counsel Shekhar Naphade, appearing for the state government, said the […]

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