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Realtors’ Advance Tax Payment Falls Down

Major real estate players including DLF, Unitech, Parsvnath and Omaxe appear to have taken a sharp hit with the slowdown in the economy as their advance tax payments have fallen sharply. Faced with lower sales and liquidity crunch, DLF hasn’t paid any advance tax in September of this financial year, compared to Rs 37 crore [...]

DLF Is Increasing Pressure On Government For Dankuni Township Project

Singur may be grabbing headlines, but it isn’t the only project where the West Bengal government has ‘landed’ itself in a mess. Another storm is developing just 20 km away from Singur, where DLF is growing annoyed with its proposed Dankuni township.
The real estate giant has threatened to pull out of the thirty three thousand [...]

DLF Ltd Is Planning To Raise Rs 10,000 Crore By The Next One Year

The largest real estate company by market share DLF Ltd is planning to raise Rs 10,000 crore over the next one year. The shareholders will pass an enabling resolution to this effect in the next annual general meeting which will be held on September 30.
According to a DLF spokesperson, “This is a normal procedure to [...]

Dawnay Day’s hotels on the block

Leading hotel chains and top real estate developers are understood to be bidding for the beleaguered UK investment group Dawnay Day’s four-star hotel chain Ten Hotels and other real estate assets in India. ITC, Royal Orchid, Pride Hotels, Sarovar group, Lemon Tree, DLF and Paraswanath have made a pitch for the deal, which is valued [...]

Non-Residents Homing In Thick And Fast

With the stock markets down in India, the realty market here offers a reliable investment avenue.
There are three reasons why NRIs invest in India — they remit money for family expenses or investments or for maintaining their bank accounts and investments here.
According to RBI records, NRIs’ annualised remittances to India have grown from $26 billion [...]

Ambala Hot Destination For Real Estate

AMBALA : A historical district of Haryana, may still be longing for true genesis of its nomenclature but the city is slowly opening up to real estate investments that were non-existence till a couple of years ago.
The city, divided between Ambala Cantt and Ambala City, is bringing up a few group housing schemes and commercial [...]

Unitech Arranged Three Hundred Million Dollar For Residential Projects

Unitech International Real Estate Fund is learnt to have raised $300 mn which will be deployed in Unitech’s residential projects. The new fund will help the country’s second-largest, listed developer tide over the liquidity crunch dogging almost all real estate firms.
A senior Unitech executive, who didn’t wish to be named, told that an European pension [...]

Kumar Builders The Best Real Estate Company Of Pune

Kumar Builders stood tall at the Pune Real Estate Summit & Excellence Awards 2008 presented by Amicus Enviro Consultancy, a Delhi-based environment consultancy firm, at a function at Le Meridien on Saturday evening.
As many as 28 companies vied for honours for the prestigious awards. Amongst the big names in the nominees were Kumar Builders, Goel [...]

DLF Hopeful About Dankuni Project

Despite of doubt over the fortune of the township project at Dankuni, real estate major DLF, in charge of executing the project, is hopeful of going ahead with it. According to DLF officials responsible for the Dankuni project, “The company remains committed to the project. The government has not briefed DLF about any of its [...]

DLF Township At Dankuni Fate Uncertain

The fate of the prestigious Rs 33,000-crore DLF township at Dankuni has become uncertain.
“The project will not be implemented if the Opposition party and landowners are not ready for it,” urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya said on Tuesday as Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee demanded that the state withdraw the acquisition notice.
The proposed township is [...]

Realty Scrips Have A Long Way Ahead To Recovery

For all the talk about a slowdown in the economy, real estate prices in most parts of the country have not corrected as much as most prospective buyers would have liked them to. But, shares of most real estate companies are not finding any takers even after falling nearly 50% from their record highs in [...]

DLF Assets files for IPO approval in Singapore

DLF Assets, the property fund of DLF Ltd, plans to launch an initial public offer of its office trust in Singapore by June to raise over Rs 8,000 crore. DLF is India’s leading real estate company in terms of market evaluation.

DLF will invest $5 Billion to Build Hotels in India

March 28 –DLF Ltd, India’s biggest developer, will spend $5 billion in the next seven years to build about 125 hotels in the world’s fastest-growing tourist destination.
In Delhi Rajiv Singh vice chairman of DLF Ltd. said in an interview that DLF plans to build 25,000 rooms including 4,000 in the first three years.
Spending and investment [...]

Deteriorating IT Boom Affects Real Estate

Slowdown in IT/ ITeS sectors is effecting real estate firms. Lease of office space to software and BPO firms have fallen by over 30 percent. The trend is particularly bound to affect firms like DLF and Unitech which are building several software SEZs (special economic zones) across the country. Unitech executive said that till just [...]

BPTP Bags India’s Biggest Land Deal In Noida

Delhi-based Business Parks and Town Planners (BPTP) bagged a 95-acre commercial plot at Sector 94 in Noida for incredible Rs 5006 crore from the Noida authority. It is strategically located close to Delhi. It will be around 16 km from Connaught Place and around 10 km from south Delhi via the DND flyover.

Real Estate in Bombay Stock Exchange

Power, real estate, capital goods and oil and gas indices gained over 7 per cent each and led the Sensex rally on Thursday.
The Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex recorded the 3rd highest single-day gain of 817.49 points for the duration of the current calendar year, taking the index from 16,949.14 on Wednesday to 17,766.63 points on [...]

Developers shrug off REIT plans, looking out of the country

MUMBAI - Property developers are expected to turn overseas to list Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as proposed local rules favour funds and small investors rather than real estate companies, officials said.
Developers are hoping to recover costs by selling properties to REITs in which they hold a controlling stake. However, draft rules, which restrict ownership [...]

DLF Reported Profit

30 January, 2008, New Delhi: DLF Ltd. has reported a quarterly consolidated net profit of 21.45 billion rupees ($544.4 million) on Wednesday. It assured that the growth will remain robust on strong demand. Mr. Rajiv Singh, Vice Chairman, told the reporters “There is no decrease in demand. People have realized that while interest rates may [...]

DLF IKEA Joint Venture

DLF is discussing with Ikea, world’s largest home furnishings retailer, for a bid to bring the Swedish brand into India.  The developer is looking into the prospects of a joint venture with Ikea on a sharing ratio that was yet to be decided by the time this information had been published.  The purpose of this [...]