Tag: Credai

New Property Tax to Hit Property Transactions

New property tax will affect the property transactions adversely. The builders say that the new property tax is wrongly assessed. Under the new property tax, Babu Naik will have to pay an additional of Rs.7000 per year. When he questioned the civic body officials, they explained to him that the value of his property has […]

PMO Finally Speeds Up Real Estate Regulatory Bill

Finally PMO decided to step in to speed up the Real Estate Regulatory Bill.  PMO ordered both the warring ministries to solve the issues and implement the bill soon. PMO asked both; – the Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) And the Ministry for Urban Development; to pace up the implementation of the […]

CREDAI Praises AP Govt.’s Online Approval of Building

Andhra Government has recently launched online approval system for real estate buildings. The Apex body of the developers- CREDAI penned it down as highly appreciable real- estate-reformation. Single window system for approving real estate projects will speed up the delivery.  Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India had earlier blamed the red-tapism and corrupted […]

Will CREDAI, Fire Department MoU work?

Announcement of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) and the Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services (KSFES) Department on fire safety certification has raised quite a few eyebrows in the real estate industry. While an industry expert questioned how “credible” would the entire process be, […]

Real Estate Bill Delayed

The much-awaited regulatory Bill for the real estate sector is still a long way off. The draft Real Estate Regulation Bill will not be tabled during the current session of Parliament, a senior official in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has confirmed. For many years, the Bill was in making and was […]

Property prices hiked in Coimbatore

The jump in land, materials and labour costs has pushed property prices up by 25%-30% per cent and slowed the growth of the real estate sector in Coimbatore in the last two years. Property developers in the city believe that if the real estate sector has to grow at pace similar to that of Chennai, […]

Realty Industry Welcomes Rate Cut

The interest rate sensitive realty industry Tuesday welcomed the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to cut key lending rates by 50 basis points, and felt the move will boost builders’ and home loan customers’ sentiments alike. “For the real estate in particular, this is indeed a welcome step by RBI. While the sector was […]

Surat: Realty Sector experiences 100% growth in 2 yrs.

Realty glitters in the diamond city. Real estate sector has witnessed a 100 per cent growth in the past two years, aided by a number of factors like vertical development, business opportunities and influx of people from other places. Om Ahuja, CEO-residential services, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) India, said, “In cities like Surat, the growth is directly related to […]

Realtors upset with policies of BDA.

The real estate developers on Thursday reacted sharply to the Bhubaneswar Development Authority’s (BDA) move to change the definition of “apartment” and “group housing.” Talking to reporters here, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) state president D S Tripathy said the new definitions are vague and will result in the harassment of people while […]

‘Simplify Procedures, Introduce Land Reforms’-Credai

Simplify administrative procedures, introduce land reforms and changes in banking and taxation systems is the way to increase construction of houses, according to Mr Lalit Jain, National President of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI). The developers have decided to make a representation to the Central Government on the issue of administrative […]

EWS 20% Reservation will take time, Says Realty Sector.

The realty sector is at loggerheads with the state government after a directive by the Urban Development Department to private developers that they reserve 20 per cent of plots and tenements for the economically weaker sections (EWS). The move is being opposed not only by individual developers but also by the Confederation of Real Estate […]

Real estate is back on track

According to CREDAI, real estate sector is picking up in both residential and commercial sector. Both real estate sectors are getting more and more enquiries. Along with enquiries, demand in both sectors has also increased. However, there are various major and minor factors behind this, but two major factors are, affordable housing concept and reduction […]

Realty developers to meet RBI Governor for more packages

Members from the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) will be meeting the RBI Governor D Subbarao next week to demand more Government support for the struggling real estate sector. The developers are likely to push for lower interest rates and restructured debt for the developers. Speaking to The Indian Express, Pradeep […]

Orissa episode of the Credai

The Orissa episode of the Credai has decided to reduce prices of their forthcoming housing projects by 5-10% in the coming 2 months in the wake of fall in raw material prices. The strategy comes close on the heels of a call given by Credai to more than three thousand of its members in the […]

Realty cos fight shy of price cuts

Real estate companies seem little inclined to listen to the government’s call to reduce prices. Even as realty firms such as DLF, Parsvnath and Emaar MGF demand rollback of taxes, they are reluctant to commit any price cut. An association of developers, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (Credai), has asked member developers […]

FM assures more loans for real estate

Finance minister P Chidambaram assured real estate developers that government will impress upon banks to accelerate lending to realty, which is facing one of the worst slowdown in the recent times. A delegation of builders under the Confederation of Real Estate developers’ Association of India (CREDAI), met Chidambaram on Wednesday to complain against banks’ reluctance […]

Realty companies look at alternative financial support

With banks reluctant to lend to the real estate sector, developers are looking at alternative instruments of funding such as lease discounting for completing ongoing projects, especially the commercial ones. The sector, which has been hit by the global financial crisis, has seen more than a 60% fall in demand in the last six months, […]

Inflation Affecting Real Estate Prices

With inflation touching 12.98%, realtors here are finding it difficult to hold their price line and plan to increase rates for residential units by Rs 100-500 per sq ft later this month. According to Confederation of Real Estate Developer’s Associations of India (Credai) Bengal, there has been a 25% increase in the construction cost of […]

Real Estate Management Course In Kolkata

KOLKATA, April 23: With the real estate boom in the country, St Xavier’s College in alliance with CREDAI(Confederation of Real Estate Developer’s Associations of India), Bengal is planning to launch a one year post graduate diploma course in real estate management very soon. The college previously runs a six-month certificate course on real estate management. […]

Real Estate Developers Want Steel Price Hike Probed

Mumbai Real estate developers on Friday demanded an inquiry into the rise in steel prices and warned that if the prices were unchecked, plans for the Commonwealth Games 2010 would be hindered and would hit the residential construction business. Members of the Builders Association of India (BAI) met here and sought a probe by the […]