Browsing: Advocacy

Advocacy Sustainable Living, Green Building Footprint, Carbon Footprint, World Green Building Week, World Green Building Council, India Green Building Council, IGBC, LEED Certified Building, India Green Building Council, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Real Estate Journalist
India recommits to building a sustainable future

The annual campaign has been supported by over 75 Green Building Councils (GBCs), plus partners, hosting over 100 events around the world to spotlight solutions to industry stakeholders for a resilient and decarbonised built environment. By REDUCE, it aims at improving energy efficiency and minimise energy use; by ELECTRIFY, it aims at shifting to electricity for essential functions and ensuring electricity generation is from low-carbon sources such as renewables; and, by ADAPT, it aims to ensure the built environment is capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change.

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Advocacy PMAY, Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana, PMAY-Urban, PMAY-Gramin, PMAY-Rural, PMAY Beneficiaries, PMAY Criterion, PMAY Success, PMAY Failures, PMAY Status, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Best Property Portal, Best Real Estate Website, Real Estate Journalists
Why is there so much confusion around PMAY?

PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana) is once again in the news after the Union Budget 2023-24. But a project that should have been seen as a mission is in the news for some wrong reasons. It’s not just the fact that the Government of India has not clarified its achievements with Housing for All by 2022, but Track2Realty finds there are data discrepancies with the project as well.

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Advocacy Union Budget 2024-25, Budget and Real Estate, Real Estate Budget Demands, Real Estate Budget Wish List, Real Estate Budget Reaction, LTCG, Long Term Capital Gain Tax, STCG, Short Term Capital Gain Tax, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Real Estate News India, Indian Property Market News, Real Estate Journalist
Why is Indian real estate applauding Union Budget 2024-25?

Understanding the mindset of Indian real estate has never been easy. The built environment of the Indian real estate could argue and demolish the best of consumer-centric reforms. Remember the way industry body CREDAI had called RERA prior to its inception, and that too in front of the then Union Minister Kamal Nath, builder harassment and public amusement bill.  But at the same time they celebrate the self-inflicted injury on many occasions. Track2Realty finds the overtones of the sector all the more contradictory with the Union Budget, before and after the budget.

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Advocacy LTCG Tax, Long Term Capital Gain Tax, LTCG without Indexation, LTCG with Indexation, LTCG Amendment, LTCG Rollback, LTCG Calculator, Union Budget 2024-25, India Real Estate News, Indian Realty News, Indian Property Market News, Best Property Portal, Best Real Estate Website, Real Estate Journalist
Why has real estate taken U-Turn with LTCG Tax rollback?

Immediately after the Union Budget 023-24, when Track2Realty had taken a principled position that it is going to hurt the Indian home buyers, many critics & self-proclaimed financial experts had questioned us. They were celebrating LTCG without Indexation and now very same set of people are again glorifying the dual option- with or without Indexation for deals before the Union Budget. How could one argue for both and against the motion? It is like batting for both teams in a game of cricket. Isn’t it?

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Real estate victim or guilty of snail-paced manufacturing?

The question is what needs to be done. Or in other words, how could real estate consume more out of ‘Make in India’ manufacturing? The question in itself is flawed, if not in sync with the larger eco system issues. Setting up and making a manufacturing unit in India comes with its own challenges. Cheap labour alone would not give India any edge or cost arbitrage over the export items. ‘Make in India’ has to move beyond the rhetoric of nationalism and reforms have to be introduced at each and every level, ranging from lower corporate tax to labour laws and making the country a happy hunting ground for the manufacturers of the world.

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Advocacy Brand Ambassadors, Celebrity Endorsements, Real Estate Sales Channel, Property Sales Channel, Real Estate Marketing, Property Marketing, Celebrity Marketing
Are celebrity brand ambassadors liable for real estate failures?

Bombarded by the celebrity cricket icon as its brand ambassador, a gullible home buyer, Akshat Jain in Greater Noida, bought an apartment with the builder. However, his dreams of a sweet home had a crash landing when the developer defaulted and reports of conflict emerged between the developer and the cricketer over the non-payment of endorsement fee.  Track2Realty probes whether celebrity brand ambassadors could be made liable if the builder fails with the promise.

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Labour shortage a perennial problem of Indian real estate

Ram Kirpal is a construction worker in Noida. However, this daily wage earner is not a regular employee or even contractual worker with any real estate company or contractor. He goes back to his native place, Purnea in Bihar, on each harvest season and agriculture continues to be his main occupation. He works on construction sites in Noida only when there is no agricultural work back home. He is part of the bigger problem that the Indian real estate faces – labour shortage! A Track2Realty report.

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Advocacy Union Budget 2022-23, Budget & Real Estate, Budget & Property Market, Budget & Home Buyers, Budget Wish List, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman
Union Budget 2022 lacked fresh ideas; “U Turn” by realty players

Tracking the sentiment is not that easy in the business of Indian real estate. There is no ideal predictive model that could assess the sentiments of both the developers as well as the buyers. The leading voices of the sector has never been very consistent with their budget wish list and the post budget customary note. The most important stakeholders, the home buyers, are more often than not completely ignored when it comes to sentiment assessment post the Union Budget.

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Advocacy Repo Rate, Real Estate & Repo Rate, Repo Rate & EMI, Repo Rate & Home Loan, Real Estate Policies, Anuj Puri, ANAROCK Property Consultants
Repo Rate cut of 25 bps a notional nudge

In the April-June 2019 quarter, India’s GDP grew only by 5% – the slowest pace in over six years. Consumers are spending less on everything from FMCG to automobiles – and, of course, real estate. Naturally, the sector eyes RBI’s monetary policy for cuts in the key lending rates to support the various measures taken by the government to boost consumption sentiment.

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