Lavasa Corporation has announced the launch of Mugaon – the 2nd town to be built at Lavasa. Situated on the banks of the lake, Mugaon will be developed on approximately 2400 acre area and is much larger than Dasve, the first town of Lavasa.
Amidst cut-throat the hospitality vertical of Indian real estate has done well with hotels across the budget segment witnessing upward movement. Track2Realty exp0lores the emerging trends and also addresses the game changers that has influenced in the past and promises to do so in the year ahead.
Call it the fallout of Competition Commission of India (CCI) penalty on the biggest real estate company DLF in a Gurgaon case last August, there has been a rush of complaints at the CCI against several property majors since then. According to CCI officials at least 200 complaint letters came to them against real estate players, of them around 15 were official cases.
Godrej Properties’ stock offering to raise up to $90 million received bids for 18 percent more than the shares on offer, boosting the outlook for a newly approved process that companies can tap to cut founder stakes.
SARE Homes (South Asian Real Estate) has launched ‘Petioles’, privacy apartments with Gurgaon’s first luxury private Sky Deck in Gurgaon, Sector 92. Developed on a sprawling 48-acre integrated township, Petioles claims to be Gurgaon’s first luxury private ‘Sky Deck’ consisting of a viewing deck, yoga and meditation zone, viewing deck, water wall and putting green.
The rate at which economy is growing our urban centers shall add at least 100 million people by year 2020 merely on the account of urbanization. To provide housing to so many people India needs to invest a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. This is equivalent to 80 times our education budget allocation for year 2011-12.
“For the real estate and housing sector, this years’ budget has exceeded expectations given the pressure on fiscal situation. Most importantly, it has taken into account the crying need to focus on affordable housing sector by allowing ECB for low cost housing, road as well as construction. Withholding tax on ECBs for affordable housing has been reduced from 20% to 5% for 3 years and this move will help ease the liquidity in the sector.
Our reaction to Union Budget 2012-13 is mixed at best. It seems fair to state that the Indian real estate sector does not have much to cheer about.
Tata Housing has launched its first pan-India retail brand – GoodLife, specially designed to bring mall culture to urban localities where there are no malls.
Hyderabad continues to be a favoured destination for investments due to its unique infrastructure, and real estate prospects are promising despite the Telangana agitation.