The recent announcement of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) and the Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services (KSFES) Department on fire safety certification has raised quite a few eyebrows in the real estate industry.
Experts in the urban policy and planning are of the view that since none of the traditional solutions have worked, it calls for fresh approach and out-of-the-box thinking to make India slum free. Pranay Vakil, Chairman of Knight Frank India outrightly blames the ambiguous policies coming in the way of slum redevelopment. He says there is no dearth of expression of interest and even some of the international players had recently tied-up with the Indian partners for the same. He urges the Government for consistency in policy guidelines if slum free cities have to be a realty reality.
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If you look the FDI side of the story over the years, initially there was an influx of a lot of foreign funds and in 2007, it was driven by the US. But the 3-4 years that investors have been here, we have seen a lot of selling. So a lot of investors withdrew or reduced their portfolio and even though being a fund, we found ourselves putting our hands into the acquisitions, marketing etc. It was not our comfort zone and we have been playing the role of a developer instead.
While buying a house majority of the Indians have now matured to pay for ready-to-move property than a castle in the air. No wonder, despite the high appreciation potential, the new launched projects have few takers and there is hardly any market for a pre-launch offer. Thanks to the poor delivery of the real estate developers, unmet commitments and execution risk involved, at least the end users are not interested in new launches anymore.
First influencers, then catalysts and now storming into what can be conveniently called last male bastion—Real Estate. Indian Mothers have indeed come a long way to prove that a challenging job of realty business can be managed along with the family responsibilities and upbringing of the children. Track2Realty salutes a few of such Case Studies on the eve of Mother’s Day.
The building approval process in India is relatively slower and more expensive in comparison to several other countries as indicated by a recent World Bank assessment. The report highlights that an average 37 procedures over a period of 195 days are needed for obtaining construction permits in the country vis-à-vis 15 approvals over an average 157 days in the OECD region.
In its first ever Indian investment, the Plaza Centers Group has appointed Pioneer Property Zone (PPZ),- leading experts in developing and managing shopping malls –for their upcoming mall in India – Property Zone will be managing the mall for the group which will include financial management & implementing strategies for growing the asset performance. The upcoming property is at Koregaon Park Plaza Mall in Pune.
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) has said a new Bench will decide the DLF case wherein the realty major has challenged CCI’s Rs 630 crore penalty on it and the final hearing has been adjourned to July 18.
Real estate developers and consultants agree that there is fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. But absence of policy guidelines and hassle free implementation is what comes in the way of ensuring reality of a slum free realty, finds Track2Realty.