Homebuyers victims or villains?
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Home launches nosedive by 40% in Q4: PropEquity Study
News Point: Housing demand across key cities declined by 31%;…
Budget compensation for demonetisation hit realty
Bottom Line: Can the expected budget bonanza compensate the demonetisation…
Reality of slum free Dharavi
Bottom Line: The urban planners who are not exposed to…
Triple intervention helps homebuyers; hurts developers
News Point: Consumer activism, media trial & judicial intervention come…
Jail term for homebuyers balances regulator advantage
News Point: If the regulator was mooted out as an…
Beware of fly-by-night real estate developers
Track2Realty: The daily papers are replete with complaints by buyers who had been led astray or otherwise victimized by fly-by-night developers who specialize in launching small one-off projects and then wash their hands off the project. In a market environment where the exists a high degree of customer awareness with regards to most products, how can this continue to happen?
PE investment trends in Indian realty
Track2Realty: Transactions in India’s real estate space might have slowed down over the last two quarters, but the sector has not been overwhelmed by the state of the wider economy. Despite the subdued pre-election economic scenario, in fact, the period observed an increase in private equity activity.
2014 expected to get big ticket funding
Track2Realty Exclusive: Funding, or rather lack of it, has been one of the key concerns of the real estate developers throughout 2013, yet if some of the key policy decisions that have been taken in the year it seems 2014 is all set to get big ticket funding. The money is poised to be invested in the sector and if not as private equity, the biggies will put in money through Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
Special Economic Zones or Land Zones
Track2Realty Exclusive: The problem remains that many SEZs are seen as real estate scams. Lack of clarity on the country’s land acquisition policy is also a major stumbling block for SEZ projects. EAS Sarma, former Secretary to the Government of India has alleged that most of the SEZs in the country have become real estate ventures lined to money laundering.