Category: News Launches

Real estate

Mumbai and Pune city may not get the relief benefit for the construction projects.

April 17, 2020

The updated guidelines for ongoing construction projects provided by the Center on April 15 have come as a significant relief to the builders as workers stationed at such sites are now able to begin construction work. The updated guidelines, however, also confirmed that such work cannot be performed in places designated as COVID-19 hotspots. Mumbai […]

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Construction

X BKC project promoter declines to pay rent by citing force majeure clause.

April 14, 2020

Invoking the force majeure clause in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, the promoters of the X BKC project in Kala Nagar, Bandra requested MIG Colony’s original tenants not to deposit their cheques for the May-June period. Citing financial problems and bad market conditions, MIG (Bandra) Realtors and Builders Pvt Ltd, part of the DB […]

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Under-construction Building

PHD Chamber suggested all under-construction projects to be treated as assets for granting credit to the developers.

April 11, 2020

PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has suggested that ongoing projects must be treated as assets for providing credit to developers, zero- period interest waiver in Uttar Pradesh should be provided for two years amid COVID-19, and developers who have applied for partial or partial project competition must be issued completion certificates to prevent […]

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Partnership

Kolte-Patil Developers and a UK based real estate company will jointly develop a 5.4 acre in Pune.

April 10, 2020

Kolte-Patil Developers, a real estate developer based in Pune, has signed an agreement with UK-based real estate company Planet Smart City to jointly build a more than a 5.4-acre parcel of land in Pune. Kolte-Patil would get Rs 91 Crore for his plot’s monetization. Kolte-Patil’s I-Ven Townships (Pune) a Kolte-Patil subsidiary and the UK developer […]

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construction

PMI: UK construction industry experiences the steepest decline in activity in March 2020.

April 7, 2020

Britain’s construction industry experienced the sharpest decline in activity following last month’s financial crisis, a survey revealed on Monday, despite seeing far less pressure than other sectors that are affected due to coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Also reported last week’s figures from financial data provider IHS Markit and the Chartered Institution of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), indicating the British business sector as a whole is shrinking at the highest pace in more than 20 years.  The construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) plunged to 39.3 in March from 52.6 in February, its lowest since April […]

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Maharashtra RERA Rules in Place to Protect Homebuyers from May 1

K-RERA allows three months deadline extensions on all RERA projects.

April 6, 2020

The Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has provided a deadline extension for all residential buildings throughout the city, taking into account the lockdown declared by the state and the union governments. Much of the mass exodus of migrant workers who decided to return to their hometowns before the coronavirus outbreak, the continuing construction projects […]

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Investment

Wadhwa Group receives Rs 300 crore investments from a Japenese company Marubeni Corporation.

April 1, 2020

Japanese institutional investor Marubeni Corporation has decided to invest Rs 300 crore into a 1 million sqft residential project ‘Atmosphere’ of real estate developer Wadhwa Group in Mumbai’s Mulund suburb. This is the maiden investment Marubeni has created in Indian real estate. In a statement, it said it would invest in the project by subscribing […]

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BMC

BMC Commissioner seeks to provide temporary shelters for the homeless labourers.

March 31, 2020

BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi has instructed building proposals department officials to locate recently built unoccupied buildings in their regions so that they can act as temporary shelters for homeless labourers and other emergencies. Civic officials said there were several such buildings in the city, so it was necessary to use the first few floors of […]

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House

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of buying a ready-to-move house in 2020?

March 30, 2020

With developers leaving projects unfinished and a lot of people not getting the possession of their house on time, Indians nowadays have been highly careful when it comes to buying a home. Because of Amrapali and other cases in the past, people have lost confidence in developers and are reluctant to bring their money into […]

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Loan

Developers’ body seeks to defer housing loans EMI for a 12months.

March 25, 2020

Real estate developers body is looking for a 12-month deferral of housing loan instalments, a 2-year moratorium on project loans, issuance of building plans and other permits that are being supported by payment of fees, and other steps to help the real estate industry in UP and Haryana. The National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO-UP) has […]

Developers’ body seeks to defer housing loans EMI for a 12months.more