In a judgment closing a 20-year-old battle, the Supreme Court ordered that two open spaces at the Juhu-Vile Parle Development Scheme (JVPD) be maintained as open spaces only. It upheld a 2017 Bombay High Court Order labelling Mhada’s decision to approve construction on the two layout open spaces as an “illegality” and “set off with […]
SC concludes 20-year old battle, declares two JVPD plots as an ‘Open Spaces’.more
Emirates REIT, a sharia-compliant real estate investment trust headquartered in Dubai, is contemplating buying back some of it’s nearly $400 million in Islamic outstanding bonds to boost its balance sheet, three sources told Reuters. Given the economic pressures induced by the coronavirus pandemic, which is worsening an already stagnant property sector in Dubai, the idea […]
Emirates REIT plans to buy-back $400 million in bonds to improve its balance sheet.more
Institutional investment in the Indian real estate market has dropped from a year earlier to $712 million during the quarter ended March by 58%. Total investments in the financial year 2019-20 experienced a 13% fall at $4.26 billion-the lowest for four years, a report by JLL India shows. Several events affected the downturn, including the […]
Indian real estate market experiences a decline in institutional investment by 58%.more
Two days until the slated end of the lockdown, the government has enabled more than 15 types of industries to begin their work on a single shift basis with minimal manpower and distancing norms. These involve large electrical goods such as transformers and circuit vehicles, telecom equipment and components like fibre optic cable, compressor and […]
Home Ministry permits 15 industries to start their work with social distancing norms.more
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 […]
PHD Chamber suggested all under-construction projects to be treated as assets for granting credit to the developers.more
Despite the lockdown, BMC has begun pre-monsoon road-resurfacing, desilting and bridge-building work to prevent accidents, flooding, water-logging and rainfall diseases — it has a little over a month and a half to complete the job. On 6 April, BMC resumed 112 works on roads, bridges and stormwater drains (including desilting) with 2,500 labourers. Additional Municipal […]
BMC resumes infrastructure work amid lockdown, explains as the pre-monsoon measures.more
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 […]
Kolte-Patil Developers and a UK based real estate company will jointly develop a 5.4 acre in Pune.more
The coronavirus is Spreading like wildfire, the amount of people in Mumbai testing positive for COVID-19 is rising constantly. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has prepared, with this rise, 20 more hospitals with doctors and nurses at standby. “Two, 140-bed hospitals in Vikhroli and Ghatkopar have been equipped with different entry gates and quarantine wards. In […]
COVID-19: BMC prepares 20 additional hospitals in Mumbai along with quarantine wards.more
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) said on Tuesday it would not make any interest or principal payments to lenders and bondholders as the firm is under resolution process. The Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) was started against the debt-ridden corporation in compliance with the 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code regulations with effect from December 3, […]
DHFL under resolution process, declared to not make any payments to lenders and bondholders.more
Office-sharing giant WeWork sued SoftBank on Tuesday alleging that Japan-based technology investment group breached its contractual commitments by pulling out a $3 billion rescue plan. The case filed in a U.S. court in Delaware comes only days after SoftBank announced it was pulling out of the plan to acquire WeWork shares and shore up the […]
WeWork filed a lawsuit in the US against SoftBank for breaching the contract.more