When Rishi Patil bought his first property in Mumbai a decade back, he followed the advice of family astrologer and deliberately waited for 7 months to book the flat on the day of Akshay Tritiya.
In an obvious chain of patronage IL&FS, the company which gets the contract opts for Sanganer project Rajasthan from where Arvind Mayaram’s mother Indira Mayaram has been contesting Assembly elections and Mayaram and family has farmland there.
The IL&FS has LIC of India, State Bank of India, Central Bank of India, HDFC Bank as prominent shareholders. As per the reports IL&FS owned 4.05 per cent stake in Shahid Balwa’s DB Realty.
While everybody, including the Finance Minister seems to be focussing on the affordable housing, the definition of the real estate at the bottom of the pyramid seems to be changing.
At a time when investigations into the “mother of all scams” the 2G spectrum allocation scam allegedly by former telecom minister A Raja and owners of some telecom firms are in full swing and the Apex Court is monitoring the investigations, it has come to light that the Rural Development Ministry has been awarding projects to a major infrastructure and finance company, IL&FS which had invested in the scam tainted DB Realty.
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of Rupees five lakh on Manipal Co-operative Bank Ltd., Manipal, Karnataka for violating RBI directives by granting loans for real estate purpose exceeding the single party exposure limit of 15 per cent of its capital funds.
Adani Realty Business, the real estate arm of the Adani Group, plans to invest Rs.5,000 crore in the group’s upcoming township in Ahmedabad.
Union minister for urban development Kamal Nath on Thursday said the number of approvals a developer has to get will have to be cut down for faster and more efficient property development in the country.
Indian arm of a leading Bangkok based developer is looking to invest some $300 million in the country’s real estate market, particularly in the major cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
India’s real estate stocks have attractive valuations after plunging 83% from their peak and are likely to rebound within two years, according to Macquarie Group.