Interest from international real estate investors in Indian real estate has been limited in 2012. India has witnessed 6% q-o-q growth in direct commercial real estate in Q1 2012, as compared to China which has seen negative growth of -45%, however China performed better in Q2 2012 on the back of one mega deal. In Brazil, investment volumes seem to be reaching a more ‘normalised’, sustainable pace following the supercharged 2010-2011 period.
UGL Limited has announced that its property services business, comprised of UGL Services (including the Unicco, Equis and Premas operations) and DTZ, will be united under a single global brand. Since 5 December 2011, when UGL acquired the trading operations of global real estate services company DTZ Holdings plc, the two companies have cobranded as UGL Services and DTZ.
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.
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.
CREDAI has reacted sharply over the Finance Minister’s asking chiefs of public sector banks to put pressure on real estate developers to lower property prices and not hold invetory. CREDAI has said in a release that instead of asking realtors to download unsold stock at discounted prices, the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram should take immediate steps to boost to housing stock supply through special incentives to the affordable segment.
SRG Housing Finance Limited, a growing housing finance company with registered office atUdaipur in Rajasthan, proposes to enter the capital markets on 22nd August 2012 with a public issue of 35,04,000 of Rs 10 each. The Issue price for this IPO to be listed on SME platform of BSE has been fixed at Rs 20 per equity share of Rs 10 each. The Issue closes on 24th August 2012.
After Track2Realty reported that how real estate developers are blatantly violating the ban on pre-launch schemes as advised by the Supreme Court, the Haryana Government has now decided to crack down against the erring realty companies. Many established realty companies and new players in the fray are illegally offering residential projects before acquiring the required license, and in some cases, even without a land in blatant violation of warnings by the authority.
Realtors crib that they are often dwarfed by regulation. For constructing a skyscraper, one has to go through various regulatory approvals and committees like the high-rise committee, aviation committee, the chief fire officer and the environmental clearance.
The Macquarie SBI Infrastructure Fund (MSIF) has announced the completion of an investment into Ashoka Concessions Limited (ACL) for $US150 million1 (INR8 billion), along with a co-investor, the SBI Macquarie Infrastructure Trust (SMIT).