Real estate draft Bill revised to make it a central legislation
The contour of the Real Estate Draft Bill has been changed to make it a central legislation, a shift from it being a state matter earlier.
The contour of the Real Estate Draft Bill has been changed to make it a central legislation, a shift from it being a state matter earlier.
Latin America and Asia remain the strongest real estate markets in the world but emerging markets in Europe, particularly Poland, show further improvements, according to the latest Global Commercial Property Survey.
New Delhi-based research firm PE Analytics has drawn up plans to launch Real Estate Price Index in partnership with a leading commodity exchange.
The Karnataka government has announced that Bangalore Helix, the much-awaited biotechnology park, has been awarded to Alexandria Real Estate, the highest bidder.
India Property Fund, managed by NRI investor Purnendu Chatterjee’s TCG Real Estate and US-based Vornado Realty Trust, is in the final stages of investing Rs 270 crore in two residential developments in national capital region and Mumbai.
In an obvious chain of patronage IL&FS, the company which gets the contract opts for Sanganer project Rajasthan from where Arvind Mayaram’s mother Indira Mayaram has been contesting Assembly elections and Mayaram and family has farmland there.
While everybody, including the Finance Minister seems to be focussing on the affordable housing, the definition of the real estate at the bottom of the pyramid seems to be changing.
At a time when investigations into the “mother of all scams” the 2G spectrum allocation scam allegedly by former telecom minister A Raja and owners of some telecom firms are in full swing and the Apex Court is monitoring the investigations, it has come to light that the Rural Development Ministry has been awarding projects to a major infrastructure and finance company, IL&FS which had invested in the scam tainted DB Realty.
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) demands the proposed law to regulate the development of India’s real estate sector must be comprehensive to address the interests and responsibilities of all stakeholders.
Union minister for urban development Kamal Nath on Thursday said the number of approvals a developer has to get will have to be cut down for faster and more efficient property development in the country.