Guy Perry joins Essel Infraprojects as head of its smart city business
Perry’s appointment to help build cross disciplinary teams for building…
Perry’s appointment to help build cross disciplinary teams for building…
JLL report finds Chennai market rising to new high. Chennai’s…
Finance Ministry officials maintain that budget wish list of developers…
“I am reading these newspaper reports about the real estate sector demanding so many things with the Union Budget. Most of these demands are for their financial health than understanding the market from common homebuyers’ perspective like us. Do we matter at all in this eco system where neither the government nor the developers understand what keeps us away from the property market,” says Shweta Sanyal, an advertising professional in Mumbai.
Prima facie the Godrej Anandam may seem to be a costly proposition by the prevailing price point of Nagpur, but then it is one of those projects that have the first movers advantage of aspirational living in the city.
The buzzword ‘Smart Cities’ has gained a lot more meaning now after the selection of the 20 top cities as Smart Cities out of a total of 98 through a competitive process of selection.
When we talk about home buyers sitting on the fence, we are basically talking about buyers who want to buy a home but are indecisive. Implied therein is that such buyers have the capital to buy now if they choose to – they point is they are not choosing to.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is convening a voluntary, collaborative effort with leading Indian housing sector companies to form an industry-led Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium to drive sustainability in India’s housing market with a particular focus on the affordable housing sector.
Dubai property market has been centre of attraction for the investors from across the world. Indians, of course, have been a significant contributors and Dubai rates India as the second largest investor country after the UK. Sultan Ebrahim Alakraf, Senior Director of Land Department, Government of Dubai, shares with Ravi Sinha how Dubai has been consciously trying to create its own brand differentiator with ease of doing business and easy exit to the investors. Excerpts of an exclusive interview:
Embassy Residency is a project that has weathered many challenges since inception – right from legal issues to the perception issue of being a low lying area – and yet it is shaping up quite decent. It is in South Chennai and primarily meant for the people employed in IT corridor.