Cartel of black money in secondary market needs to be checked
The draft Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2011, aims at bringing reforms in the unorganised Indian real estate sector.
The draft Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2011, aims at bringing reforms in the unorganised Indian real estate sector.
For buyers as industry stakeholders, the biggest advantage that the Model Real Estate Regulation Act offers is that there will be an arbitratory body available to attend to grievances and redressals.
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.
The impact of slowdown is already being felt on the real estate market with residential segment witnessing sluggish demand across all the major cities.
The much awaited and largely discussed Real Estate (Regulation & Redevelopment) Bill, pending since 2009, is finally been ready and the Government plans to introduce it in the winter session of Parliament after getting Cabinet approval.
The third annual global Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) shows that building owners and operators throughout India continue to place higher importance on energy management in comparison to their peers in other major countries.
The level of FDI in the real estate sector is unlikely to show a quantum jump this year, courtesy a slow GDP growth rate, high debt levels of the real estate developers, labour shortage and economic crisis in the US and Europe.
Retail chains across the country are signing up for space in a big way, after a long pause that had followed the economic downturn.
The south Indian hospitality market would see an addition of 14,500 new rooms in 178 star hotels across southern states by the end of year 2012.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real-estate sector last year was the lowest in four years, but private equity activity gained momentum during the recent months, according to a study by an Indian industry chamber and a global accountancy firm.