CBDT to come out with accounting norms for real estate
The Revenue department on Thursday, Sep 6, said it will soon come out with accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results.
The Revenue department on Thursday, Sep 6, said it will soon come out with accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results.
With overall vacancy increasing and business and investor sentiment low, why are office rents in many micro markets in Mumbai still increasing? In the recent past, many corporate decision makers have been wondering aloud why the rents and capital values in markets such as Lower Parel and BKC have risen in the last 4-5 months.
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.
It is just the pipeline visibility that is driving developers like Supertech which is building north India’s tallest residential as well as tallest mixed land use project. Theyrather assert that changing demographics, lifestyle and growing aspirations have encouraged them to launch conceptually designed projects with facilities which are matchless and desired by the people.
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.
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.
HCorp Realty Pvt. Ltd. through its subsidiary group company, Blaze Conbuild, offers first-of-its-kind opportunity to own a piece of customised cottage in the lap of Himalayas. The project called Mystic Mountain, is strategically located in the lap of nature in Almora, Uttarakhand. Around 25 km away from Mukteshwar, this is first such project that offers options of individual plots and customised luxury cottages of various sizes.
Himachal Pradesh has spiked plans of over 60 builders and developers to sell flats and cottages in the hill state. The developers include DLF, Janta Land Promoter Ltd, Omaxe Construction Pvt Ltd, Optima Construction Pvt Ltd, Amar Nath Aggarwal Builders Pvt Ltd and Surya Builders, according to officials.
Developers in Punjab have opposed the state government’s move to levy social infrastructure cess on property transactions, saying it would hit demand in the sector which is already facing slowdown.
The Centre has responded positively to the Delhi Government’s appeal to regularise more than 1600 of the city’s unauthorised colonies. However, the truth is that even after this notification, the ground reality in that these colonies are unlikely to change for now.