DHFL realigns its asset management business
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), India’s second largest housing finance company in the private sector, announced on Monday, Nov 14, the re-alignment of its asset management business.
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), India’s second largest housing finance company in the private sector, announced on Monday, Nov 14, the re-alignment of its asset management business.
While 560-odd investors were duped by Emaar MGF, banks too were defrauded.
It may well go down as one of the biggest real estate scams in the country. The controversial Commonwealth Games village builder, Emaar MGF, has fraudulently sold off over 560 plots it did not own to unsuspecting buyers in Mohali (Punjab).
The long-pending legislation – Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill – that aims to infuse “accountability and transparency” in the realty sector, backed by stringent norms, is out in the public domain.
The two Sahara Group companies have moved the Supreme Court challenging the sectoral tribunal’s order asking the Group to refund around Rs.24,000 crore to investors.
Realty major DLF has welcomed stay order by the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) on the Rs 630-crore penalty imposed on it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
The Government will make public the draft Real Estate Regulation and Development Bill, 2011 for comments from stakeholders this week and may subsequently introduce it in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament.
Even as global economic slowdown and uncertainty in financial markets have battered the real estate industry countrywide, properties in Kolkata and Chennai bucked the trend with steady demand in affordable and mid-segment housing.
When the CCI alleged that DLF misused its dominant market position and imposed unfair conditions on home-buyers of two of its many projects, the real estate fraternity, legal experts and others strongly questioned the basis of the CCI order.
Housing Development Finance Corp. will invest about Rs.2 billion ($41 million) in one of the projects of New Delhi-based real estate developer ATS Infrastructure Ltd, sources close to the development said.