Tag: Foreign Direct Investment

Walmart Reluctant To Enter; Blames States’ Veto Power

American retailer Walmart and the government of USA have conveyed their anxiety over the veto power of the states on foreign direct investment. By providing veto power to the states, the Union government of India had said that the act will support the states to have absolute control over the foreign investors. The entry of […]

Retail FDI Will Help Mall Owners Fill Vacant Space

Retail FDI is expected to help the mall owners to find takers. With the government’s decision to have more Foreign Direct Investment, India has opened the gates to the foreigners. As a result foreigners are now free to run shops in India. This created hopes in the minds of mall owners.

RBI nod to foreign VCs, but sectors limited to 10

The Reserve Bank of India recently started approving applications from foreign venture capital investors (FVCI) that were kept on hold for a considerable period of time. While this led to some excitement among the applicants, it was short-lived. In what has surprised the venture capital firms, the approval letters issued by RBI to FVCIs provide […]

Investment In India’s Real Estate Sector continues to rise

Investing in the Indian real estate sector continues to grow, however the pace may be slowing just a little. Foreign developers as well as private equity funds remain bullish, long-term, on India’s property market. Not only is investment flowing into the metro cities, but attractive real-estate deals are also being negotiated and signed in ’second-tier’ […]

IT Sector, A New Ground Of Indian Real Estate

The Indian real estate sector is breaking new ground, by adopting information technology (IT). In recent years, many real estate companies have been taking to end-to-end IT solutions in a bid to automate their business processes. This has not only helped to increase efficiency and cut cost but also to make their functioning more transparent, […]

Assocham Predicts $21 Billion FDI In Real Estate Market

Despite the real estate market being confronted with a short-term depression as real interest rates hovered between 12 – 16%, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) has projected a twenty one billion dollar spurt in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real estate market in the next 10 years.

Emaar Properties To Inject $150 Million In India

Emaar Properties, the leading real estate company in the Middle East, is set to inject $150 million for a 20-25 % stake each in three real estate developments in India. According to Company spokesperson Emaar and MGF Developments of India set up a joint venture in 2005 called Emaar MGF, which presently accounts for India’s […]

Services And Real Estate Are Biggest FDI Attractions

India received a massive $20.8 billion of foreign investment in energy, services, construction and real estate sectors during the last four financial years as high economic growth lured multinational companies to set up or expand operations. The services sector witnessed the biggest spurt in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, from $444 million in 2004-05 to […]

£350 Million Project In Nagpur

aAIM India, a division of the real estate equity investor, aAIM Group, on 6th june announced its first investment comprising a 7 million sq. feet mixed-use development. This is the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in an Integrated Township under the Special Township Policy whereby most of the planning decisions are delegated to the development […]

New GOI guidelines for FDI duck Real Estate

The government today issued guiding principle on big-ticket transforms to the foreign direct investment (FDI) norms that were decided by the Union Cabinet on January 30. It, however, remained quiet on clarifying a change in rules for FDI in real estate, maybe due to fear of larger capital inflows. The move to delink the FDI […]

Foreign Direct Investment might show sharp growth

Real estate is expecting $400-500 million worth of FDI flow. These expectations are being guided by the going on trends in investment industry. Investors and developers are showing their interests in metros as well as in smaller cities too. Investments are going on in Bangalore, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Pune because of the high demands. On […]