Finance ministry officials and the officials of Reserve Bank of India plan to hold a meeting in this week. This is to discuss about relaxing the ECB norms for boosting the affordable housing. The finance ministry and the Central Bank plan to initiate some relaxations in the ECB norms. By this, they aim to boost affordable […]
Along with the growth of affordable and luxury housing segments, mid segment housing also will be picking up in the year 2013, predicted industry experts. Mid segment housing is one of the fast growing housing segments, say industry experts. Nearly a half of the population falls in the mid income segment and so there will […]
February 22, 2013 – 7:40 pm
With the aim to provide more affordable homes to the people the union government plans to confer infrastructure status to the housing sector. The coming budget is believed to confer infrastructure status on housing sector. The budget session will also have the plan to implement the regulatory bill as well. Conferring infrastructure status to the […]
February 15, 2013 – 6:12 pm
Union housing and poverty alleviation minister Mr. Ajay Maken recommended that Mumbai must review the existing FSI policy so as to make sure that the city is meeting the increasing housing demand. Mumbai has been one of the major cities in India where the housing demand has seen no boundaries and limits. Despite all the […]
January 29, 2013 – 7:01 pm
Increase in the number of affordable projects affirms that Hyderabad is the most affordable realty market among all the metros of India. Due to this affordability the city has become one of the most sought after residential markets too. The number of housing launches increased in Hyderabad. The builders saw the increased demand for housing […]
An interactive discussion on Real Estate titled ‘Real Estate: Trends, Issues & Consequences’ was organized by Money life Foundation on May 5. The session was jointly conducted by industry experts like Pranay Vakil, Chairman of Knight Frank (India) Pvt Ltd and Pankaj Kapoor, MD, Liases Foras. Mr. Pranay Vakil said on the occasion, “One of […]
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September 24, 2009 – 11:14 am
Century Real Estate is the latest to join the affordable housing bandwagon. It has come up with ‘Century Indus’ project that offers apartments in the Rs 20-30 lakh category. Mr P. Ravindra Pai, MD, Century Group said, Acquiring land at historical rates has helped the company make the project affordable. The company has a land […]
September 22, 2009 – 3:58 pm
The increased supply of ‘affordable’ housing and the demand for it has improved volumes for developers, but this has also meant that the rise in values has been significantly less. Balakrishna Hegde, former president of CREDAI, Bangalore, points out that while volume demand is up by 50% to 60%, the rise in value has only […]
August 11, 2009 – 6:55 pm
HDFC chairman Mr. Deepak Parekh said that there is need of real estate regulator at state level to deal with issues concerning the housing sector. He pointed out that the Government should layout an institutional framework for a real estate regulator. Regulators’ role would be to regulate the affordable housing agenda, promote real estate reforms and ensure transparency […]
The Propertywala sector appears to have found its feet with focus on affordable housing and this may reflect in the June quarter results of the companies. The move has led to higher sales for many companies, but on the other hand, it has also impacted the margins negatively. The reason being that the mid-segment housing […]
Mumbai seems to be the next destination for realty giants DLF and Unitech. Both companies are trying to restart some of their projects in Mumbai which were on hold. Unitech, said, “We have a number of slum redevelopment projects in Mumbai. We also have a focus on affordable housing and some projects will be announced […]
Real estate industry has started showing the signs of recovery. Effect of recovery will be shown in coming quarter. These are not baseless talks. Launching of new projects at low interest rates is the main reason behind the increase of sales inquiries. Specially, the term ‘affordable housing’ is attracting middle class families to fulfill their […]
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November 6, 2008 – 1:20 am
Real estate prices are unlikely to see the heady levels of late 2007 and early 2008, anytime soon. That could make clear why more promoters are getting serious about tapping opportunities in the affordable housing. On Tuesday, Rohtas Goel, chairman of Delhi-based real estate company, Omaxe, bought out the company’s 51% stake in National Affordable […]
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September 18, 2008 – 7:12 am
City-based Vakil Housing Development Corporation has become the latest entrant into the market to develop affordable homes as the real-estate industry tries to cope with a downtrend in demand. A senior official of the company said that the move is part of its strategy to increase its residential real estate development footprint across the southern […]
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September 10, 2008 – 8:54 am
Between 2003 and 2007, the real estate sector, both commercial and residential segments, had a boom, seeing a runaway rise in price, growth and profits. Realty companies were focusing more and more on luxury apartments. The base sizes of houses became larger. Small house segment was ignored completely. High consumer confidence, low interest rates and […]
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August 26, 2008 – 4:56 am
Provident Housing and Infrastructure Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Bangalore-based real estate company Puravankara Projects Ltd, is in talks with four overseas private equity funds to raise about seven hundred fifty crore rupees to acquire land for its affordable housing projects, a source close to the development said. “Total project cost is eight thousand […]
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Pune property market is one of the most active segments in Western India. Private property developers along with local property builders and civic authorities are pouring in more investments in the city. Recently, Milestone Capital Advisors announced an investment of Rs300 crore for commercial real estate development in Pune. Milestone is a fund house and […]
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To make their project affordable, real estate developers are applying new techniques everyday. For example, tunnel form technique, table form technique, fly ash technique and so on.
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