Salt pans development in Mumbai sparks debate
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A checklist to remove affordable housing bottlenecks
Bottom Line: Large-scale affordable housing in cities is the greatest…
Should you invest in a weekend home?
Weekend homes, also called second homes or vacation homes, are currently an oasis of market activity in India’s the otherwise lacklustre residential real estate sector. In earlier years, only the affluent could and would invest in them – today, these properties are generating interest even from the country’s middle class.
Can Indian cities replicate Las Vegas-II
Track2Realty Exclusive: In India redevelopment is a huge market, where a developer has to work with cooperative housing societies. In Mumbai the process has already started due to additional FSI granted with the new development rules. The new DCR has made it easy for developers to negotiate with the societies because now they know what areas are sanctioned and there are no free areas.
Can Mumbai learn redevelopment from global experience-III
Track2Realty Exclusive: The redevelopment of a city depends on many local factors and cannot be replicated ad hoc. Mumbai has its own character and flavour and has to be developed according to local needs and infrastructure availability. The government in consultation with developers should work in redeveloping the city of Mumbai by improvising on infrastructure.
Learning redevelopment from global experience-III
Track2Realty Exclusive: The case of Japan is one of the most inspiring and creative as conviction of betterment leads the policy and practical solution formulations. Gate Tower Building is a 16-story office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan. And what makes it notable is the highway that passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. The highway is part of the Hanshin Expressway, a network (239.3 km) of expressways surrounding Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, Japan. The Gate Tower Building is Japan’s first building to have a highway pass through it. And it had been nicknamed “beehive” referring to its appearance as a “bustling place”.
CREDAI urges developers to consider FM’s call to price cut
Track2Realty: Responding to Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s suggestion for reducing the price of housing stock, Confederation of Real Estate developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has asked its 8,000 plus members across the country to seriously consider the proposal to sell in maximum numbers.
CREDAI presents blueprint for housing surplus
Pointing out that real estate development can revive the sagging economy, developers’ apex body CREDAI has called for launching a mission to make India Housing Surplus from the current status of a housing deficit nation by 2020.
CREDAI opposes R&R clause in Land Acquisition Bill before Parliamentary Standing Committee
CREDAI has opposed the proposed Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) Bill, and said with proposed R&R to the farmers the construction industry would become an unviable proposition.
Private realtors asked to focus on affordable housing
The Government has asked private real estate developers to participate in creating affordable housing stock and help in making India slum-free.