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Guy Perry joins Essel Infraprojects as head of its smart city business
Perry’s appointment to help build cross disciplinary teams for building…
Realty budget wish list cuts no ice with homebuyers
“I am reading these newspaper reports about the real estate sector demanding so many things with the Union Budget. Most of these demands are for their financial health than understanding the market from common homebuyers’ perspective like us. Do we matter at all in this eco system where neither the government nor the developers understand what keeps us away from the property market,” says Shweta Sanyal, an advertising professional in Mumbai.
Ease of business and easy exit brand differentiator of Dubai: Sultan Ebrahim Alakraf
Dubai property market has been centre of attraction for the investors from across the world. Indians, of course, have been a significant contributors and Dubai rates India as the second largest investor country after the UK. Sultan Ebrahim Alakraf, Senior Director of Land Department, Government of Dubai, shares with Ravi Sinha how Dubai has been consciously trying to create its own brand differentiator with ease of doing business and easy exit to the investors. Excerpts of an exclusive interview:
Job loyalty low; realty professionals open to poaching
When the going was good the developers did not bother much about the quality of talent; nor did they ever took a conscious call to introspect from the inside of the company and work their way out to create a competitive professional culture.
Will the realty regulator finally become reality?
For the last four years everyone within the built environment of Indian real estate, homebuyers included, wanted a real estate regulator but the consensus eluded.
International airport to change Pune real(i)ty
An airport has been catalyst to the development and urbanisation of any given city. More often than not, it proves to be the catalyst to the growth of the real estate market of the given city. After all, the housing market is heavily dependent on the commercial activity in the city and for the big ticket commercial activities to take place what the multinational companies and the big corporate houses need the most is an international airport.
Depression a reality of realty job; Noida most depressed market
The pan-India survey by Track2Realty finds that that close to two-third, as many as 58 per cent of the real estate professionals admit to suffer some form of depression or general anxiety disorder due to demanding schedules, high stress levels and lack of performance-linked rewards.
Indian realty fails to attract quality talent
At a time when attracting the best talent is as challenging as retaining them, and lack of quality professionals affecting the fortunes of many sectors, including the Indian real estate, it is appalling to note that the developers have yet not learnt the value of professionals.
Real(ty) reasons in Mumbai to feel excited in 2016
To say that the year 2015 has not been very excisiting for the real estate market across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) would be stating the obvious. The slowdown in the macro-economy, wait & watch by the homebuyers in the property market, relatively higher cost of borrowing till late and fate of reforms oriented policies hanging in uncertainty all collectively dampenend the property market in India’s financial capital. Will the year 2016 be any different?