Track2Realty Exclusive: Is the residential real estate market in India facing a bubble? A bubble implies that there is a lot of absorption and therefore a lot of development happening, and that prices are rising in tandem up to a point where nobody is buying anymore. That is not the case in India.
Track2Realty: Provident Housing Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Puravankara Projects Limited, is to launch ‘premium affordable’ homes in Coimbatore. The innovative residential project will be located at Selvapuram, Off Perur Main Road, near R S Puram, in the vicinity of the city center.
Track2Realty Exclusive: With realty being a micro market driven business and land a state subject, dealing with the government machinery has a different challenge in many of these cities.
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Track2Realty Exclusive: In India redevelopment is a huge market, where a developer has to work with cooperative housing societies. In Mumbai the process has already started due to additional FSI granted with the new development rules. The new DCR has made it easy for developers to negotiate with the societies because now they know what areas are sanctioned and there are no free areas.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While the real estate fraternity, legal experts and others had strongly questioned the basis of the CCI order and the enormous penalty of Rs 630-crore levied on the real estate major, the sector itself eventually approached the CCI through its industry associations against the cement cartel. Acting on the sector representatives’ complaints, the CCI imposed a penalty of Rs. 6, 307 crore on 11 cement companies for cartelisation.
Track2Realty: Though the opening of the Indian retail sector to foreign direct investments may have brought cheers to the commercial real estate sector in the country, it is expected that the supply of distressed properties within the commercial segment will increase during the second quarter of 2013, according to the RICS India Commercial Property Survey Q1 2013.
Track2Realty: When the Reserve Bank of India made the announcement of allowing External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) in affordable housing, including slum redevelopment, there was an optimism and euphoria that cheaper money coming into the much-needed segment of real estate would redefine the property market in general and in the process help the country meet the housing shortage.
Gaurav Gupta: I think you will have to take into account the historical background of real estate industry. All of us know historically real estate was never a professional industry in the country before FDI came in 2005. The industry was really fragmented and the industry was with small developers and it was more like a family business.
Track2Realty: TDI Infracorp has announced the launch of their project…