After much talk on accountability and morality in public life where Anna Hazare repeatedly called for donations through cheque and draft to ensure clean money coming to the Lokpal cause, Team Hazare finally accepted money for his Anshan be a small time Mumbai builder.
Forget Mumbai which has been in the news for record dip in the property transactions. It is the Delhi-NCR that tops the list for unsold homes.
GMR Group is set to participate in the modernisation of airports in Brazil, Group Chairman, G.M. Rao has said.
Amrapali Group is negotiating to raise about Rs.220 crore from private equity (PE) firms to fund the construction of two of its large residential projects in Noida.
Through the course of 2010, the realty sector evened out into a level playing field, with enough traction in the market to hold investor interest, with several on-going projects being delivered and others being launched.
Emaar Properties has used Dubai Mall, one of the world’s largest shopping centres, as collateral to secure Dh3.6 billion (US$980 million) of financing from a trio of UAE banks.
Though a depreciating rupee has its fall out on all other economic activity, it is rather helping the Indian property market.
At a time when interest rates on home loans are hovering around 11-14 per cent, realty firm BPTP has joined hands with private sector lender HDFC to finance new purchases of houses at just 5.99 per cent for a limited period till December 31.
Ramprastha Group has signed up Blue Lotus Communications for PR services. The north-India based Group has developed over 20 million Sq ft of area and another 10 million Sq ft is under development.
Godrej Properties has entered into a joint venture to develop a group housing project in Undri, Pune.