Category Archives: Property News

The Realty Sector Dissents

Days after the budget is announced the Realty Industry is showing discontent in concern with the service tax policy announced by the Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee.The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) with the Surat Builders Association wrote a letter dated March 5 to the finance minister to withdraw service tax [...]

Second Phase Of ‘Ecospace’ Announced

A Business ParkMarch 12, 2010
The first phase of Ambuja Group’s ‘Ecospace’ Business Park on the northeastern margin of the city, Kolkatta, i.e. in Rajarhat, was inaugurated on Wednesday September 23, 2009 in presence of Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, the FM. Yesterday, on Thursday March 11, 2009, the launch of its second phase was announced by Harshavardhan [...]

Project Launch by Supertech

Supertech, one of the leading real estate firm announced on Wednesday that it will invest Rs.4, 000 cr in developing 15 mega housing and commercial projects in the next three years. The project is concentrated along the northern India.

Photo by Architecture & FoodMr. R.K.Arora, Supertech Chairman and Managing Director said they will develop 12 residential [...]

Assam Gets a Taj.

The chief minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi today laid the foundation stone of the first five star hotel in the state – Vivatna by Taj, in the presence of top industry captains including Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Sons.
The lavish project in Guwahati will be completed and commissioned within two years and with a [...]

Women Participation in Real Estate

As the world joined hands to honor the 101th celebration of womanhood yesterday, the financially independent young women in India had plenty of reasons to cheer.
For the past few years our country has taken measures to specifically increase the number of women buying property in India. Fortunately they have at large proved fruitful too. In [...]

The Realty Sector Growth Continues

On March 7, T.S.Vijayan chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), India’s No. 1 insurer announced that LIC will invest nearly Rs 36,000cr in infrastructure in 2010-11 on the sidelines of a stone-laying function of a housing complex for its policyholders in Kolkata. He said LIC would undertake realty projects, both commercial and residential, [...]

Jaypee Greens Sports City in Greater Noida

Jaypee Greens, part of construction major Jaiprakash Associates, has started construction of “Sports City”, a township with residential and sports facilities, near the Yamuna Expressway. “The Sports City is positioned for everyone who appreciates luxurious surroundings and spaces equipped with sports and recreational facilities,” according to a Jaypee Greens press release.
The Sports City will have [...]

Office rentals stabilize

Office rentals, which dropped 40% from their peak in the middle of 2008, stabilized across the country in the September quarter as fresh bookings for office spaces partly reduced inventories, says a report by international property consultant CB Richard Ellis.
There was no change in office rentals in some of the major office locations in the [...]

Residential realty prices moving up

Residential real estate prices are going up. In the last three months, prices of affordable apartments have appreciated by around 10% across the country.
Anshuman Magazine, MD – real estate consultancy firm CB Richard Ellis – South Asia, said, “With improvement in the sentiment in the economy, transactions in the affordable range of residential real estate [...]

Godrej to develop Vikhroli property

Godrej Industries has entered into an agreement with Godrej & Boyce and Godrej Properties to form a special purpose vehicle for developing its property at Vikhroli, the company said in a communique to the BSE.
Without divulging details on the area to be developed, it said that the board of directors, through a circular resolution on [...]

Buyers realize homes still not their cup of tea

Property prices across the country are 10-25% lower than their peak in early 2008. Bank rates are about 4 percentage points lower. Still, the vast majority of the exploding middle class, which aspires to own a home, is not taking the plunge. Homes are still not affordable. Affordable homes are hardly homes.
The rates may have [...]

Raheja gets 500 crores’ Delhi slum project

DDA has awarded Delhi’s first slum redevelopment project, worth Rs 500 crore, to a local builder, Raheja Developers, in a move that may see more such projects in the national capital resulting in better living conditions for urban poor and thousands of crores of businesses for builders.
DDA has awarded 5.22-hectare, or 13-acre, project at Kathputli [...]

Sahara Prime City to use Rs 2860 crore from IPO

Sahara Prime City, which aims to raise Rs 3,450 crore from an IPO, will utilize Rs 2,668 crore in the next 3 years to part-fund development of about nineteen thousand housing units across the country.
At present, Sahara Prime City is developing nine integrated townships and one residential complex in cities such as Lucknow, Indore, Nagpur, [...]

Happy days are back into realty

Realty industry is all set to be lift up this Diwali. At least 12 public offerings, a slew of new projects and the return of private equity funds that had turned away proposals due to the global slowdown last year.
‘After weathering the worst funds crisis for one and half year, the realty sector has [...]

BuildMat likely to become an annual event

The biennial exhibition BuildMat, sponsored by three major associations connected with the construction sector in Coimbatore, is likely to become an annual event after 2015.
To provide exposure to the latest products, the organizers have decided to invite manufacturers to directly participate in the 2011 BuildMat show.
Speaking to newspersons, Mr Praveen Chandra Prasad, Chairman, BuildMat 2011 [...]

Duet India Hotels eyes expansion

UK-based investment group Duet’s Indian hospitality arm Duet India Hotels is looking for more land to expand its portfolio and add more than thirteen hundred rooms by the end of this financial year.
The group plans to develop 20- 30 mid- scale and upper middle segment hotels with around five thousand rooms in the next 2-3 [...]

Landscape expo in Hyderabad

Mr K Rosaiah, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, inaugurated the fourth International Landscape and Gardening Expo 2009. About hundred exhibitors from fifteen countries, including the US and Australia, are taking part in the event. A conference, `Plants, Places and People’, would be held at `Visvesvaraya Bhavan’ on 3rd October. It would focus on improving quality of [...]

Property gifts taxable from today

Property received as gifts from non-relatives on or after October 1 will attract income-tax in the hands of the donee. This new regime for taxation of gifts of property (immovable property or any other property) will come into force from Thursday. Any person who receives a property as gift on or after October 1 must [...]

Unity Infra gets 55 crores’ order

Construction company, Unity Infra projects said that it has received a contract worth Rs 54.56 crore from Amanora Park Town for construction-related works. The scope of work includes construction of six towers among others, Unity Infra projects said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The project is scheduled to be completed in 29 [...]

Parsvnath overdue payments at Rs 143 crore

Parsvnath Developers has said its ‘overdue payments’ stood at Rs 63 crore and Rs 143 crore as on July 1 and August 31, respectively, under loan agreements and other outstanding indebtedness. The company said this in its Preliminary Placement Document filing on the NSE.
The company’s Chairman, Mr Pradeep Jain, was not available for comments, despite [...]

VATIKA GROUP OPENING A NEW WESTIN

Vatika Group announced that it will open the Westin Hotel in Gurgaon by March next year, seven months before the commencement of the Commonwealth Games in October next year. The opening of the Westin Hotel will help to meet the hotel room needs for the mega event next year as the city is already facing [...]

Residential property prices rise

The upward movement has begun. Not only have the sales picked up, but the prices of residential property too have increased 5-15 % in the last couple of months. With a long festive season ahead, realty experts believe property markets could see heightened activity, provided developers desist from increasing prices of residential space any further.
Aditi [...]

Property expo in Mumbai from Oct 1

The Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) will organize an exhibition `Property 2009′ at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, from October 1st to 4th. Over 75 real estate developers will showcase their projects in Mumbai and suburban areas such as Thane and Navi Mumbai, besides Pune. State Bank of India is the co-organizer of [...]

‘Real Investment’-The Book For Real Estate

Knight Frank has introduced a real estate guidebook for India. The book provides information needed to invest in real estate market. Mr Pranay Vakil, Chairman-Knight Frank India, said, “We felt the need for a single credible source of information for which we brought together the best minds of the industry in business. This book [...]

Residential property prices may go down

Knight Frank India said that prices in the residential property segment are likely to decline in a short time. Knight Frank India Chairman Pranay Vakil said, “We feel prices of residential segment may go down over a period of time”. Further he added that the residential segment may see a robust demand in [...]