Track2Realty Exclusive: When Ajit Bundelkar, a stock market adviser, was suggested by the property broker to invest in a property beyond Thane market he was taken by surprise. Thane itself has just started shaping up and someone was suggesting to look not within but beyond. However, for him it was the same trusted broker on whose advice he had invested in a Thane apartment when he moved from Surat to Mumbai in 2009.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Every project is launched with the presumption of existing demand in the given catchment area. If that be the reason the sector should not have been sitting over a record inventory. Track2Realty tries to explore what defines demand and how the flawed concept of demand leads to demand-supply mismatch. It is a grey zone for the real estate which hits where it hurts the most to the developers, yet most of them try to justify launches and shrug off the subject.
Track2Realty: The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the world’s leading professional qualification and standard setting body in land, property and construction sector and Amity University have established the RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University at Noida campus, to address the shortage of skilled professionals in the sector.
India’s plan to buy a property to move its cultural centre in Colombo is in limbo, after New Delhi lost out to a Chinese state-owned company in the race to buy a prime plot in the Sri Lankan capital – allegedly due to delay by the island nation’s government in issuing necessary clearances.
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.
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) has welcomed the decision of the Government to approve the Development Plan (DP) for 23 villages of Pune saying it would provide a fillip to growth.
RICS has released its research report ‘Real Estate and Construction Professionals in India by 2020’.
The Kerala Government is planning to start a ‘Kerala Construction Academy’ which will impart short-term training to unskilled workers in the construction industry.
Following demands from different quarters and to facilitate more discussion and debate on the Draft Development Plan for Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, the last date for objections and suggestions would be extended by two months.
DLF is planning to move the Competition Appellate Tribunal by early next week, to appeal against the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) order imposing Rs.630-crore penalty on the firm.