Category: Residential property

construction

Developers are avoiding redevelopment projects – proposals down by 50% in the past year.

January 20, 2020

Redevelopment of housing societies, once a capital spin-off for most of the builders in Mumbai, has almost ended. In addition to a sluggish real estate market, developers say projects such as these, which earlier gained huge revenues, are no longer profitable because of the BMC’s high premiums and construction expenses. Throughout the city, developers have […]

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Partnership

Real Estate firm Avighna group is looking to partner with HBS realtors for Worli Project.

Avighna Group, a real estate developer, is in advanced discussions with HBS Realtors to conclude a joint agreement on the development of a residential project of Rs 1,800 crore projects in Worli, Mumbai. The project is estimated at a total development capacity of 0.72 million square feet and will spread across 3.4 acres of land […]

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SBI

State Bank of India initiates Home Buyer Finance Guarantee Scheme.

January 11, 2020

To provide a booster to the property market, on January 8, India’s leading lender, State Bank of India, has unveiled a guarantee scheme for home buyer funding whereby, if the developer fails to deliver the house within a predetermined time, the lender will reimburse the entire amount of the principal. Until the occupation certificate is […]

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Rental housing

Nanma Properties, part of the Eastern Group is going to enter into Affordable Housing Market.

Nanma Properties, part of the Eastern Group has established preparations for entrance into the affordable housing market. The decision of the Group reflects the declaration by the Central Government of the subsidies for the affordable housing sector. Navas Meeran, Chairman of the Eastern Group, said Nanma Properties Ltd will invest Rs 2,500 crore in an […]

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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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Knight Frank Report: NCR witnessed a 45% rise in new residential launches in 2019.

According to the London-based real estate consultancy Knight Frank annual report, Housing sales in Delhi-NCR saw 5% YOY growth and new residential launches increased by 45% in 2019 compared to 2018. The report stated that the period from 2016 to 2019 was the transitional period, when policy changes such as the Real Estate (Regulation and […]

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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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Finance

Realty firm Supertech applies for last-mile funding of Rs 1,500 cr.

January 6, 2020

Supertech, a real estate company, said on January 5th, that they sought Rs 1,500 crore from the newly established government Stress Fund to complete their 12 ongoing housing projects in Noida and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh. The firm said the 12 projects consisting of 20,000 flats are in an advanced stage and that last […]

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