Tag: Liquidity

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 […]

Real estate cos hope govt help will revive demand

The Union government’s recently announced stimulus package, coupled with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) move allowing banks to provide special treatment to the real estate sector are likely to change the fortunes of Indian real estate sector, which has been struggling to survive for the past six months. Monday’s interest rate cut on housing […]

Banks want RBI to ease realty NPA norms

In a bid to avoid classifying advances to troubled real estate companies as bad loans, banks have urged RBI to put in place a uniform norm for restructuring debt to realty companies. As of now, the moment a loan extended to real estate, capital market or personal loan segment is restructured; the lender has to […]

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 […]

Scenario of Real Estate Industry After Festive Season

With the festive season of Diwali just past us, developers are going hammer and tongs at wooing prospective homebuyers with more and more special offers. However, if sources are to be believed, these discounts and gifts have only come about because the real estate market is heading for correction in a big way. Sources say […]

Parsvnath says festival sales down by half

Sales at Parsvnath Developers’ in the festival season of Diwali are down to half from a year ago, but the real estate developer does not plan price cuts to boost sales, its chairman said. High interest rates on home loans and central bank rules forcing banks to assign a higher risk weight to real estate […]

TDI Infrastructure To Invest Rs 300 Crore

Real estate firm TDI Infrastructure plans to invest Rs300 crore in developing two township projects over the next 4-5 years. “In the next six months, we will be launching two residential townships in Indore and Meerut spread over 150 acres each. Once all regulatory issues are solved, we will start construction,” TDI Infrastructure Managing Director […]

CRR cut infuses liquidity in Indian market

Leading real estate players are optimistic about the RBI’s move to cut CRR and believe that this will help the flow of funds in the realty sector, enabling faster execution of projects. The CRR cut can also influence the boost of the realty market, provided there is a decrease in interest loans. Mr. Pradeep Jain, […]

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 […]