Anil Wadhwa, Indian Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman inaugurated the two-day India Property Show (IPRO 2011) today at Al Falaj Hotel.
Four years after Singapore-based Ascott Ltd, a serviced residence operator, entered India, it has decided to part ways with its local partner in a bid to speed up expansion plans and have more control over its proposed projects.
Sadiq Batcha, a longtime friend and associate of A Raja and managing director of a real estate company, Green House Promoters, in which Raja’s wife Parameswari was associated as one of the directors and later resigned, has been found dead.
As the Reserve Bank of India meets to review its monetary policy tomorrow, Thursday, the realty sector is getting panicky that if there is a rate hike the sector may see some more pains in the coming days.
China’s central government wants to weaken the industry’s vice-like grip on the political system as a means to avoid a Jasmine-type revolt.
Stocks of real estate companies suffered widespread losses on the BSE today dragging down the sectoral index by 3.14 per cent on all-round selling by funds on fears of rate hike by RBI to curb inflation.
Real estate and construction has been voted as the most corrupt sector in India, according to a survey by global consultancy firm KPMG.
Entrepreneur Robert Vadra, married into the country’s most powerful family, has made a quiet and relatively unheralded entry into the real estate business, including a partnership with DLF Ltd, the market leader in the business.
It seems to be a box-office-hit bollywood potboiler where a billioner realtor is interrogated as many as 29 times over a period of four years, gets arrested on charges of money laundering. But in the end manages the investigation and a weak case is what makes him laugh away at the system.
Chinese officials are blaming the speculators for soaring property prices and have announced to build 36 million affordable homes over the next five years.