The Board of Directors of DLF Ltd has placed on record appreciation on retirement of T.C. Goyal, Managing Director of the Company, from the services of the Company. He shall cease to be the Managing Director of the Company with effect from close of business hours on 31st March, 2015 upon completion of his term, as was approved by the shareholders of the Company at the extra-ordinary general meeting held on 4th April, 2013.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Not that Hitender Tyagi of Noida was a prosperous landlord, yet he felt like the one with his small piece of 12 acre of agricultural land. Today this ailing farmer feels like a pauper who was forced to do away with his source of bread and butter as his land was forcibly acquired by the Noida Authority.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Fair trade regulator CCI has rejected a plea alleging that real estate company BPTP abused its dominant market position with respect to a residential project in Gurgaon.
Track2Realty: Prabhat Ranjan, co-founder of Brick Eagle, a financial services platform for the affordable housing industry, has forayed into real estate development, incorporating a new venture Olympeo Infrastructure. The company has launched its first project Olympeo Riverside, an integrated township spread across 25 acres on the banks of Ulhas River, in the Neral-Karjat belt, an extended Mumbai suburb.
Track2Realty: Sentiment around Indian real estate among both domestic and international investors has improved in recent times, following the election of a new government and also on account of an upturn in consumer demand, says theEmerging Trends in Real Estate® Asia Pacific 2015 report, published jointly by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Track2Realty-Agencies: News Corp has acquired a major stake in an Indian digital real estate company, continuing the company’s aggressive expansion into attractive early stage markets around the world.
Track2Realty: Even as the Indian real estate market shifts into the second gear of recovery, developers whose operations had slowed down during the lull are still faced with multiple concerns. On the one hand, the very basis of their business is the launching of new projects (the only function that really defines a developer’s viability as a going concern on the real estate market). On the other hand, it is vital for them to clear piled-up inventory in order to generate capital and enable clearances for new projects.
Track2Realty: A few years back, Hyderabad was offering the likes of Bangalore stiff competition for attracting office space investments. Today, the formation of a new state, a new government and a stabilized political environment are yet to instill the confidence that is needed to revive Hyderabad’s real estate fortunes.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The NRI enquiries are unlikely to materialise as sales because Indian real estate has lost its credibility. Moreover, given that general elections are around the corner, real estate is in doldrums as all the black money that has been pumped into realty, is slowly being drained out to fund elections.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Statistics often only tell half the story and in real estate this old adage is all the more true as the figure are often not the facts and ground realities may juxtapose facts with figure. For instance, a perception is gaining ground that Mumbai property has reached beyond its saturation point and the standing inventory of 48 months is being cited as the evidence.