Emaar Properties PJSC, Dubai’s largest real-estate firm, has asked consultants and investment bankers to value its Indian joint venture Emaar MGF Land Ltd’s assets.
While the banks and financial institutions are overtly blaming the real estate companies for defaulting on the loan repayment, it is learnt that they are also showing largesse to the realtors by rescheduling their loan repayment.
Hotel Leelaventure will invest Rs.100 crore to upgrade its property in Goa in 2011 and is looking to expand presence in the country by opening new company-owned properties and taking up management contracts.
In what could be biggest shake up in India’s retail sector, and cheer up the real estate developers also who are at the receiving end by the retail partners, the global major retail Walmart is in talks with Big Bazaar for stake.
The income tax department has conducted a search operation on Mumbai-based Kanakia Group. The raids were conducted early morning, in Mumbai and Lucknow for alleged tax evasion.
DB Realty, the tainted Mumbai-based real estate developer whose name figured in the 2G spectrum investigations, has lost its fourth director since February.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has taken a strong objection to the military authorities in Karnataka who have permitted unauthorized use of defence land for constructing shopping malls and halls in gross violation of rules and without sanction from the Defence Ministry.
Indian buyers usually pay for apartments before construction has been completed. Many buyers do not take out mortgage loans (the ratio of housing loans to GDP is less than 5% in India).
Indian house prices rose rapidly from 2002 to 2007. Strong economic growth and urbanization supported house prices, while in city centres a housing bubble was encouraged by inadequate infrastructure, lack of planning and antiquated land use laws.
Global financial meltdown and the NRIs fear psychosis with the collapse of financial institutions seems to have by default been the catalyst to the realty boom in Punjab.