Sending positive signs from easing the cash crunch for the realty sector, Secretary for Financial Services D K Mittal on Monday, Sep 17, asked the commercial banks to focus on funding partially completed projects on a priority basis and development of projects in small towns.
The government’s decision to operationalise FDI in multi-brand retail would help the realty sector as the move would create demand for retail space and boost mall development in the country, real estate developers and property consultants said.
The government plans to bring unorganised property agents and brokers under the ambit of the proposed real estate regulator, imposing stringent penalties including imprisonment on those who dupe buyers or operate without a valid registration.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a new report, Redefining Retail Investment, to coincide with the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) 2012 Retail Real Estate World Summit, taking place in Shanghai this week.
MCHI-CREDAI’s 6th India Realty Expo will be held at The Cumberland, Great Cumberland Place, London, next to Marble Arch Station, Behind Oxford Street; 15 & 16 September, 10 am to 7 pm. The event has been planned so as to provide the NRI community in the U.K. with some of the most ‘happening’ real estate investment option across India’s Urbs Prima Indies – Mumbai City, suburbs and its peripheral areas including sister cities like Thane, Navi Mumbai, Dombivli Kalyan, Mira Virar among others – as also realty options from the neighbouring city of Pune and select properties from the land of Sun, Sand and Surf – Goa.
India’s plan to buy a property to move its cultural centre in Colombo is in limbo, after New Delhi lost out to a Chinese state-owned company in the race to buy a prime plot in the Sri Lankan capital – allegedly due to delay by the island nation’s government in issuing necessary clearances.
The Environment Ministry has now set new norms for buildings higher than four floors. However, experts question the compliance aspect. Sachin Sandhir, Managing Director (South Asia) of RICS is apprehensive with the enforcement of stricter norms for structural safety.
More than 1,000 registered attendees from around the world will converge in Shanghai next week for the 2012 ICSC Retail Real Estate World Summit. More than 70 speakers around the globe from companies ranging from Apple and Walmart to India-based K Raheja Corp. will be discussing the latest trends transforming the international retail real estate industry.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that investors, who attend the Emerging Kerala meet, with real estate motives will have to return empty handed. “Not an inch of land will be sold for projects approved in the meet. Can you think any secret business deal is possible in Kerala?,” he asked the editors of various media organisations in the state during an interaction ahead of the Emerging Kerala meet on Thursday, Sep 6.
The Revenue department on Thursday, Sep 6, said it will soon come out with accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results.