Anant Raj Group Chairman questioned by CBI
The CBI has questioned chairman of Anant Raj Group, a Delhi-based real estate company, Amit Sarin, and Idea Cellular CEO Sanjeev Aga in connection with its probe into the 2G spectrum allotment scam.
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Hilton Worldwide opens fourth India property in Chennai
Global hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has opened its fourth India property in Chennai. According to the company release, the five-star 204-room Hilton Chennai, positioned as a business hotel, is owned by Empee Group, which has diversified interests from alcoholic beverages to property development.
Oversupply of retail space set to keep rentals under pressure
A mammoth increase in planned supply of retail malls in India will increase retail companies’ bargaining power vis-à-vis real estate developers.
Tata Housing to invest 3000 crore on affordable housing
Tata Housing Development Company would invest up to Rs 3,000 crore next fiscal to develop affordable homes across the country. The company already has five projects in the affordable segment and plans to launch 7-8 more projects next fiscal.
Tax subvention to improve housing shortage: Manoj John, VP, RNA Corp.
The favourable budget outcomes are enhancement of priority home loan limit to Rs. 25 lakhs from Rs. 20 lakhs and extension of interest subvention of 1% up to Rs 15 lakhs.
Commendable job by focus on infra dev: RICS
Backed by strong economic growth and impressive fiscal consolidation, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believes that the finance minister has done a commendable job by continuing the focus on infrastructure development, which has been a key contributor to the inclusive growth in the country.
Budget has been neutral and industry friendly: Irfan Razack, CMD, Prestige Group
The budget speech indicated further progress on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) as well as the GST – both critical measures, which is a welcome move. Though, I feel that it would have been better for the industry if GST was also rolled out along with the DTC.
Focus on Aam Aadmi who doesn’t live in cities
The Finance Minister seems to be getting more appreciation than brickbats for renewing focus on the housing needs of Aam Aadmi. Even the real estate sector is divided and while the long awaited demands have not been fulfilled, a section of the realtors with affordable housing projects have appreciated the efforts.
Budget focused on common man: Sunil Mantri, President MCHI
Maharashtra Chambers of Housing Industry (MCHI), most prominent body of the real estate developers today described the Union Budget presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as “Budget with few positive steps focused on the common man who is interested in buying a house in rural and urban areas”.
Budget relying on inclusive growth for the ‘aam aadmi’ : Pranab Datta, VC & MD, Knight Frank India
The Budget is relying heavily on maintaining the trajectory of growth in the economy to provide solutions for inclusive growth that touch the ‘Aam Aadmi’ and parallelly stressing on governance aspects, which hopefully will be covered separately through concrete action plans to deal with the menace of unaccounted wealth. The trend for consolidation is expected to continue.