Track2Realty: MCHI-CREDAI property expo kick started on Thursday, Nov 1, at BKC grounds, Mumbai, featuring over 15,000 properties with over 120 developers participating. Axis bank is the co-organiser of the exhibition.
In a bid to check the mushrooming growth of slums in the state, the Odisha government is planning to create rental housing at an affordable monthly rent of up to Rs 2,000 for the poor.
The Noida Extension land acquisition fracas was all about the authorities allowing developers to acquire land at considerably low prices from farmers and also changing the planned use pattern from industrial to residential. Farmers revolted and were able to gain wide support from different quarters.
DLF has plans to roll out new residential projects at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Panipat and Kasauli as part of company’s strategy to strengthen its presence outside Gurgaon.
India’s growth story has many facets; one of the integral parts of growth – and arguably the most important one – is urbanization. In fast-growing economies, cities are significant investment and employment generators, which in turn carry the growth momentum forward. The sustainability and livability of any city depends largely on the quality of its infrastructure and real estate stocks. Needless to say, cities also require large sums of money to create urban asset stocks, including buildings and infrastructure.
If only the secondary market was any indicator of real estate growth, the argument that that the real estate market is turning bearish in Chandigarh would have been true. But while the prices have softened a bit in the city, the beneficiary is the periphery of Chandigarh that makes the overall property market in the city very bullish and overall economy vibrant.
Hiranandanis have roped in Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a Queen’s Counsel (QC), as an arbitrator for a Rs 1,400-crore dispute in the family. The other arbitrators are another QC and former Delhi High Court Chief Justice A P Shah. The panel is expected to solve by June the scrap between brother and sister, who are both high-fliers in their own right.
Manesar was envisaged as a model township encompassing residential real estate as well as commercial office and industrial establishments. Hence, it was appropriately christened as IMT (Integrated Manesar Township).
The last few months have seen a lot of mid-sized office and mixed-use buildings in Mumbai going under the hammer. Not very surprising, considering the wave of real estate redevelopment that has swept the city. What is so unusual about these buildings is the fact that they are going to be redeveloped into stand-alone retail formats.
As the second home phenomenon gains currency in the industrially-developed Mumbai-Pune- Nashik belt, real estate firm Eiffel Group has earmarked Rs 300 crore over the next three years to launch more projects in the region, referred to as the state’s ‘golden triangle’.