Track2Realty: Police has detained at least 15 people, mostly the security personnel of controversial liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep who were killed in a shootout between their groups at their farmhouse in south Delhi on Saturday, Nov 17.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The best part is that the banks are now a party to revive the property drive in the city. They are also hosting property exhibitions, introducing combo products that offer further interest rate reduction on a car loan if a customer has already taken a home loan and are sugar coating home loan products, besides cutting interest rates and waiving processing fees to pep up demand for home loans.
Track2Realty: A three-acre plot in Andheri owned by Nycomed Pharma has been sold for around Rs 205 crore, or Rs 65 crore an acre. Mahindra Lifespaces, part of the Mahindra Group, has purchased the 12,000-sq m plot that currently houses a bungalow, two guest houses, a research and development facility and an electric sub-station.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While the Vijay Kelkar Committee has strongly advocated in its recommendation to the Central Government that monetisation of the government land can finance the basic urban infrastructure needs, a move in that direction has set the tone for a fresh debate in Maharashtra.
Track2Realty: The Maharashtra government has revised lease rentals of a total of 1,577 lands situated in Mumbai city and suburbs. The revised lease rentals, which are fixed on ready recknor rates, would be effective from January 1. State cabinet chaired by Prithviraj Chavan gave its approval at its meeting held on Tuesday, Oct 9.
Track2Realty: Real estate in Bihar with most of the cities termed as tier-II and III by many of the developers till late, has bucked all trends of slowdown to soar as one of the most promising real estate market. It is not just the new trend of apartments that is catching fancy of the prosperity that is noticeable in many of the urban areas, but even the land rates still continue to soar.
Can meat & eggs offered to God resolve realty crisis? Well, the real estate community in Coimbatore thinks so. More than 1000 members of the real estate sector, including key promoters, sought diving intervention on Wednesday, Sep 5, to bail them out of the crisis they were in, caused by decreasing demand and prices.
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.
The Noida Extension land acquisition fracas was all about the authorities allowing developers to acquire land at considerably low prices from farmers and also changing the planned use pattern from industrial to residential. Farmers revolted and were able to gain wide support from different quarters.
Chennai is known for its conservative mind-set, which reflects visibly on its residential property market trends, as well. For instance, home buyers in Chennai have historically been driven by location over and above most other considerations, and this had put definite limits on the demand and potential for community living in the city.