In a further blow to the dampened Diwali spirit of the realty sector, the RBI raised interest rates on today but said it was likely to hold off on further increases as it expects high inflation to ease beginning in December.
It has been quite some time that Mamata Banerjee took over the rein of West Bengal after 34 long years of Left Front rule.
The real estate developers have taken the verdict of the Allahabad High Court, which has awarded a greater compensation to farmers of Gautam Budh Nagar but has not stopped acquisition anywhere barring three villages in their stride.
In one of the decade’s largest real estate deals in Kolkata, Ambuja Realty has acquired the RMZ block of Ecospace Business Park in New Town, Rajarhat, Kolkata.
Omkar Realtors & Developers has launched its boutique development, ‘Vayu’ in Mumbai.
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.
It is not just the rising interest and input costs and project delays that is hurting the realty companies, rather the mounting debt is the real cause of worry.
The Andhra Pradesh Government will take all steps to ensure that Hyderabad’s real estate industry bounces back to normalcy soon, said Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The real estate sector has expressed guarded optimism on Supreme Court ruling that terms as “illegal” any sale of immoveable property through power of attorney (POA) unless the case is “genuine”.
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.