Even as global economic slowdown and uncertainty in financial markets have battered the real estate industry countrywide, properties in Kolkata and Chennai bucked the trend with steady demand in affordable and mid-segment housing.
India and China have been forever up for comparison in the past. There has been no end to the debates on which of the two economies out-performs the other, and China seems to have emerged as the default favourite for any number of reasons.
When the CCI alleged that DLF misused its dominant market position and imposed unfair conditions on home-buyers of two of its many projects, the real estate fraternity, legal experts and others strongly questioned the basis of the CCI order.
Ackruti City is in talks with a couple of private equity (PE) lenders to raise around Rs.150 crore by selling around 25% in its proposed redevelopment project in Chembur, north eastern suburb of Mumbai.
The impact of slowdown is already being felt on the real estate market with residential segment witnessing sluggish demand across all the major cities.
HDFC Realty, the private equity arm of Housing Development Finance Corporation, is in talks with the world’s largest sovereign funds to raise its fourth real estate fund.
Property rates in the capital are set to zoom further as Delhi Government on Monday, October 31, hiked the circle rates by up to 250 per cent to check black money in sale and purchase transactions.
Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), a financing arm of the government, and Brookfield Asset Management have agreed to jointly sponsor a real estate fund with $100 million in seed money to focus on the domestic market.
In the wake of large scale criticism and the realtors’ protest against repo rate hike, the Government raised the housing loan ceiling for availing one per cent interest subsidy to Rs.15 lakh from existing Rs.10 lakh.
The latest interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is bound to push up the price of housing loans as well as the residential apartments.