Bank loans to real estate drops sharply
Banking institutions have cut down on their lending to the real estate sector, according to a report put out on Wednesday by real estate consulting firm Knight Frank India.
Banking institutions have cut down on their lending to the real estate sector, according to a report put out on Wednesday by real estate consulting firm Knight Frank India.
SRG Housing Finance Limited, a growing housing finance company with registered office atUdaipur in Rajasthan, proposes to enter the capital markets on 22nd August 2012 with a public issue of 35,04,000 of Rs 10 each. The Issue price for this IPO to be listed on SME platform of BSE has been fixed at Rs 20 per equity share of Rs 10 each. The Issue closes on 24th August 2012.
Pointing out that real estate development can revive the sagging economy, developers’ apex body CREDAI has called for launching a mission to make India Housing Surplus from the current status of a housing deficit nation by 2020.
The government has formed a committee to evolve a workable strategy for reducing the time taken in approval of real estate projects which could ultimately reduce the cost of houses by 25 to 40 per cent, minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation Kumari Selja said on Friday, May 11.
CREDAI has stressed the importance of a devising a new scheme like tax holiday to generate stock under affordable housing category. It demands that all projects with tenements below 80 sq meter in Mumbai and Delhi, and 1000 sq meter in other cities, could be exempted from taxes.
It seems the euphoria within the realty sector over the proposed income tax exemption limit on housing loans from Rs. 1.5 lakhs to 3 lakhs has faded even before the union Budget 2012-13 is formally presented.
In a bid to boost housing sector credit, the Indian government is contemplating to enhance the income-tax exemption for up to Rs 3 lakh paid as interest on housing loans in a year, from the existing limit of Rs 1.5 lakh.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has pointed out banks’ disproportionate growth in loans to the commercial real estate sector, the retail segment and the infrastructure sector.
In the wake of large scale criticism and the realtors’ protest against repo rate hike, the Government raised the housing loan ceiling for availing one per cent interest subsidy to Rs.15 lakh from existing Rs.10 lakh.
Janaadhar Constructions, handed over the keys to home buyers of Janaadhar Shubha, its first affordable housing project targeted at the aspiring first-time home owner among the urban low income group.