Tag: Metros

Vakil Latest To Jump Onto Affordable Housing Bandwagon

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 […]

Chandigarh Attracting Realtors

With the saturation of metros and major tier I cities across the country, the focus has now shifted to tier II cities, which has turned to be fruitful for realtors. Chandigarh has been overwhelmed by the response it got from the realtors who are keen to start their construction activities. The three operational malls in […]

Realty Firms Consider Joint Development For Construction Projects

Real estate firms will enter into joint development for construction projects by selling land parcels to other builders, given the drop in sales of apartments and inflationary trends. Pankaj Jaju, head-real estate practice, Enam Securities told FE, “Metros and Tier II towns having a huge pipeline of projects have witnessed a 60% drop in sales […]

DLF Housing For Poors

India’s largest real estate developer DLF has given a new definition to housing for economically weaker sections (EWS). A senior company executive recently proposed to urban development minister Jaipal Reddy—and was promptly snubbed—that servant quarters attached to highend apartments be counted as the developer’s contribution towards EWS, according to a source in the government. As […]

DLF To Develop Eight Malls This FY

Country’s largest real estate developer DLF Ltd will develop eight shopping malls under leasing format in the metros this financial year. DLF Retail only leases out space in its properties. Company would also open four shopping malls in current year, of which three would be in Delhi NCR and one in Chandigarh. Chandigarh mall will […]

Damac Properties signs 60 realty agents in India

NEW DELHI: Real Estate Developer Damac Properties announced on Monday that it has tied up with 60 agents in the country across metros and Tier I cities to market and sell their regional properties to the Indian investors. “We are proud to have signed on 60 agents in India. As demand is high, we wanted […]

Low-Cost Housing For Every Middle-Class In Metro

Year 2008 has some excellent news in store for private developers and middle-income home buyers. For, minister of state for urban development Ajay Maken has freshly started the procedure of providing ground to private developers in Delhi with 40% floor space index (FSI) for developing low-cost housing. “With this move, private developers can use surplus […]