DLF Chairman K P Singh has warned that the current policy paralysis has had an adverse impact on the country’s growth momentum denting business confidence, and could lead to its unique demographic dividend turning into a demographic nightmare.
The Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI)-CREDAI has set up a four-member committee to look for the best option for developers to compute Value Added Tax (VAT) and, in turn, pass it on to buyers who purchased flats between 2006 and 2010.
With overall vacancy increasing and business and investor sentiment low, why are office rents in many micro markets in Mumbai still increasing? In the recent past, many corporate decision makers have been wondering aloud why the rents and capital values in markets such as Lower Parel and BKC have risen in the last 4-5 months.
No end to the global housing market downturn is in sight, except probably in the US, according to a survey of global house price trends by the Global Property Guide Asia is weakening, and house price falls in the worst-hit European crisis countries are dramatically accelerating.
HCorp Realty Pvt. Ltd. through its subsidiary group company, Blaze Conbuild, offers first-of-its-kind opportunity to own a piece of customised cottage in the lap of Himalayas. The project called Mystic Mountain, is strategically located in the lap of nature in Almora, Uttarakhand. Around 25 km away from Mukteshwar, this is first such project that offers options of individual plots and customised luxury cottages of various sizes.
LIC Housing Finance, a subsidiary of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) plans to disburse around 8-10 percent of its total loan portfolio to developers by the end of this fiscal, a top company official said.
Developers in Punjab have opposed the state government’s move to levy social infrastructure cess on property transactions, saying it would hit demand in the sector which is already facing slowdown.
The Centre has responded positively to the Delhi Government’s appeal to regularise more than 1600 of the city’s unauthorised colonies. However, the truth is that even after this notification, the ground reality in that these colonies are unlikely to change for now.
The Sahara Group has clarified their stand in public after the jolt by the Supreme Court asking them to refund within three months Rs. 24,029 crore it had collected between 2008 and 2011 from over 2.96 crore investors, flouting mandatory regulatory provisions and the Company Act. In the wake of media onslaught after the Court asked two Sahara Companies to pay 15% interest on the amount, the Group in a statement has following version in its defence.
The Sahara Group will have to refund Rs. 17,400 crore to retail investors raised in 2008-09, the Supreme Court has ruled. The apex court had upheld the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) order directing two Sahara companies to refund this amount. Former Supreme Court Judge BN Agarwal will monitor the refund to investors, the court said.