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Finance Union Budget 2021-22
Not a future ready budget; real estate looks for silver lining

It was expected to be a future ready budget and the overtones in the power corridors were also self-congratulatory in advance. It finally turned out to be pretty ordinary budget for the real estate sector. The stakeholders are nevertheless looking for the silver lining here and there. The most critical stakeholder, the home buyer, is pretty disappointed with the Union Budget 2021-22.

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Finance Budget Expectation, Union Budget 2021-22, Budget and Real Estate, Budget and Home Buyers
Builder-buyer concerns juxtaposed with Union Budget 2021-22

Union Budget every year is the time when all the stakeholders of the Indian economy look up to the Finance Minister with optimism. Track2Realty noted that across the industries the wants & needs of the demand & supply side are not as juxtaposed as with the real estate. While the developers lobby hard to get the best deal out of the Union Budget, the buyers have their own set of choices and concerns. The Finance Minister is expected to walk a tightrope to balance the concerns of various stakeholders.

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Finance Real Estate Reforms, Real Estate Policies, Real Estate Budget Wish List
Urgent & definitive reforms needed for real estate

In his budget wish list, Amit Modi, Director, ABA Corp & President (Elect), CREDAI Western UP, points out that the real estate sector in India has been through one of the most difficult periods last year due the pandemic effected slowdown in the economy. While there was an upward trajectory in the last quarter of year 2020, due to correction in prices, availability of affordable home loans and the general realization towards the importance of having an adequate shelter during the pandemic, but to seriously start the process of sector revival, there is an urgent and definitive need for reforms from the forthcoming Budget.

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Finance Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister, Relief Package to Real Estate, Real Estate Stress Fund
FM gives apt festive gift to home buyers

Additionally, the fact that the corpus will be completely professionally-driven including real estate experts, banking or housing finance specialists, it is likely to move more smoothly and in the right direction with little scope for misadventure. These specialists will need to identify such projects that are affordable and middle-income projects and are in need of last-mile funding for completion. The government’s move to relax commercial borrowing for affordable housing is another welcome step.

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Finance Real Estate Investments, Real Estate Funding, Real Estate PE Funds, Real Estate Institutional Funding, Funding Gap of Real Estate, Liquidity Crisis in Real Estate
Increasing share of institutional investments in Indian real estate: CII-JLL Study

Institutional investments increased in the last ten years and have improved investor confidence, risk appetite and transparency. Enhanced use of technology across asset classes have changed the outlook of investors towards Indian real estate. As a result, investments have more than tripled to INR 1,400 bn during 2014-18 as compared to INR 465 bn during 2009-13, says the latest CII-JLL report ‘Innovation Led Opportunities – Changing India’s Real Estate Landscape’, released on Wednesday, Aug 21, at the 11th Edition of CII Realty & Infrastructure Conclave.

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Finance Union Budget 2019-20. Budget of Modi 2.0, Real Estate Budget Expectations, Budget Wish List of Indian Real Estate, Real Estate & Budget
Real estate expectations from Modi 2.0 first budget

Without compromising on fiscal prudence, the Finance Ministry will have to present a budget that is not only inclusive but also assures growth across industries. It clearly shoulders a considerable share of responsibility for retaining India’s position as the fastest-growing economy.

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Finance IND AS 115, New Accounting Standards, PCM, Percentage Completion Method, Project Completion Method, Real estate accounting, India real estate news, Indian realty news, Real estate news India, Indian property market news, Investment in property
IND AS 115 promises best practices in revenue recognition

The real estate has been calculating the revenue on Percentage Completion Method and not Project Completion Method. With the Percentage Completion Method, the developers treated payment received from the home buyers for purchase of flats under construction as turnover of the company and net income generated from such projects was treated as profit.

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Finance GST on under construction properties, GST on Ready to Move Properties, GST on home purchase, GST on property purchase, GST for real estate, India real estate news, Indian realty news, Real estate news India, Indian property market news
GST rates cut; affordable housing redefined

Cash-strapped builders have been hoping for all and any Government interventions which can help boost their sales volumes. This GST cut will provide such a boost, at least in the short-term as more fence-sitters who had been postponing their purchase decisions now have an additional incentive to take the plunge.

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Finance Lodha Palava City, Lodha Mumbai, Piramal Finance, Piramal Realty, Investment in Lodha Palava City, Ivanhoe Cambridge, Track2Realty
Piramal & Ivanhoe to invest INR 500 crore in Lodha Palava City

PEL had previously announced a strategic co-investment fund with Ivanhoé Cambridge, to provide long term equity capital to blue chip residential developers across the five major metro cities in India (Mumbai, Bengaluru, NCR, Pune and Chennai). Ivanhoé Cambridge had allocated an initial US$ 250 Mn towards this fund. 

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Finance
Interim budget & feasibility of realty appeasement

With criticism ranging from alleged corruption in the defence deals to slow moving economy, the government that came to the power with these two major planks of fighting corruption and accelerating the economic growth is under pressure. The government is, therefore, left with no option but to present a budget that gives a feel good factor.

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