The Reserve Bank of India joined the huge battle on March 27 with a host of steps aimed at mitigating the harm from Covid-19 a day after Modi govt started his economy rescue in right earnest with a Rs 1.70 lakh crore coronavirus counter. Those steps come just hours after Moody’s Investors Service reduces India’s […]
Reserve Bank of India puts hold on Housing Loan EMI’s for the next three months.more
Budget 2020 has given the real estate industry and the common man many surprises. Many demands were anticipated from the real estate sector in the 2020 budget, but only a few received the attention of the minister of finance. Let us check some of the main budget announcements and their effect on the real estate […]
Budget 2020: How it will benefit the real estate segment?more On Friday, the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviewed the current economic situation, international and domestic problems and various fields of activity. The analysis is taking place in the midst of a more marked economic slowdown and recent PMC loan manipulations flagging a new threat to banking governance and NPA frauds. […]
RBI reviews the ongoing slowdown and the economic situation happening in various sectors.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said the government will quickly follow up with its next set of relief measures, this time for the real estate industry. For multiple factors, including tight liquidity, many builders default, and high property costs, the real estate industry is facing a multi-year slowdown […]
The next set of Relief Measures can be for the Real Estate Sector: MoS Thakur.more By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter On August 13, the Reserve Bank said housing finance companies (HFCs) will be treated for regulatory purposes as one of the categories of NBFCs and will be under their direct supervision. The Finance (No 2) Act, 2019 (23 of 2019) modified the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, which conferred on […]
RBI new regulation declares Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) to be treated as NBFCs.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter On 11 August, after the industry and homebuyers met with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to emphasize their issues regarding liquidity crunch, demand slowdown and stalled projects, the government proposed it would soon solve the problems that are affecting the real estate sector. The Minister of Finance conducted two separate meetings on August 11 – the first with the two apex realtors’ industry bodies CREDAI and NAREDCO, and the second with homebuyer associations to address the problems related to the property industry and measures to improve […]
Nirmala Sitharaman held meetings to discuss real estate sector issues and measures to be taken to strengthen the industry.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter The real estate investment trust (REIT) created by Piramal Fund Management said its tenure will be extended by one year, delaying exits, due to six projects worth about Rs 562 crore getting stuck. Scheme V of the Indiareit fund started in 2013 with a primary term of six-years, which can be extended […]
Piramal Real Estate Fund aims for an extension of one year.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter In June 2019, the RBI lowered its main policy rate, and in the calendar year 2019, it did it for the third time in a row. The repo rate was reduced by approximately 0.75% by 30 June 2019. While the repo rate by the RBI has declined by 0.75% […]
The effects of the new RBI repo rate on Banks and NBFCs.more
By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter In the first half of 2019, property developers in India raised more money from primary markets than they rose in a decade. As from June, Prime Database reported that developers raised approximately Rs 10,023 crore from the primary markets via two qualified institutional placements (QIPs) and a real estate investment trust (REIT) […]
Realty companies choose primary market as their main source for raising capital.more
By Abhay Harish Shah, Realty Quarter In its budget wish list, Realtors apex body CREDAI requested that banks should finance developers to purchase land to develop affordable housing projects. It has also indicated that all legislation should have the same concept of affordable housing. “Land as a value of the project comprises 40% of the […]
CREDAI has demanded that banks should fund developers to buy land for development of affordable housing projects.more