Godrej Properties will redevelop 18 residential buildings in Chembur, Mumbai. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Godrej Projects Development Private Limited (GPDPL), entered into an agreement dated January 18, 2012 with Kamla Landmarc Property Leasing and Finance Private Limited (Kamla) to undertake a residential redevelopment project in Sahakar Nagar, Chembur, Mumbai.
Call it the fallout of Competition Commission of India (CCI) penalty on the biggest real estate company DLF in a Gurgaon case last August, there has been a rush of complaints at the CCI against several property majors since then. According to CCI officials at least 200 complaint letters came to them against real estate players, of them around 15 were official cases.
Can policy paralysis lead to postponement of sales exhibition? Doesn’t sluggish market demand more pro-active sales drive? Is a completely sold out exhibition postponed because it anticipates no business in advance? Well, if MCHI-CREDAI is to be believed, they have postponed the Real Estate & Housing Finance Exhibition, PROPERTY 2012 Mega Show, scheduled to be held on 12th – 15th April, 2012, due to policy paralysis. However, it seems to be more a case of ideas paralysis.
The over-heated Mumbai property market is taking its toll on the property transactions and sales in Mumbai property is the lowest of the six major cities across the country. According to reports, over the last one year leading to December 2011, residential sales in Mumbai have dropped by 28 per cent.
Hiranandanis have roped in Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a Queen’s Counsel (QC), as an arbitrator for a Rs 1,400-crore dispute in the family. The other arbitrators are another QC and former Delhi High Court Chief Justice A P Shah. The panel is expected to solve by June the scrap between brother and sister, who are both high-fliers in their own right.
Over the last one year, capital values rose by more than 30-35% in Gurgaon’s residential sector. Developers are now going slow on execution of real estate projects, resulting in a drop in supply of residential apartments in most prime markets. Emerging residential areas are still not able to meet the huge housing demand.
The rate at which economy is growing our urban centers shall add at least 100 million people by year 2020 merely on the account of urbanization. To provide housing to so many people India needs to invest a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. This is equivalent to 80 times our education budget allocation for year 2011-12.
Our reaction to Union Budget 2012-13 is mixed at best. It seems fair to state that the Indian real estate sector does not have much to cheer about.
The recently tabled Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation & Resettlement Bill, 2011 in Parliament is meant to replace the 117-year-old Land Acquisition Bill of 1894.
Realtors who are in the business of developing SME clusters believe in recent years, the metro cities have also seen a good increase in SMEs, which have catapulted themselves into mid- to large sizes within 3 to four years.