Track2Realty: International property consultancy JLL India has structured an agreement for the development of a Senior Living project in Chennai between Ashiana Housing Limited and Escapade Real Estate. These two firms will enter in Joint Venture development for this project.
Track2Realty-Agencies: In a blow to real estate major DLF, the Kerala High Court on Monday, Dec 8, directed it to demolish certain portions of its apartment complex, constructed on the banks of the Chilavanoor backwaters here in violation of Coastal Regulation Zone norms.
Track2Realty: The real estate sector in India is one of the largest drivers of the country’s economic growth. Real estate in India provides large-scale employment and contributes massively to the country’s GDP. While real estate is vigorously driving growth, it is also true that it is adversely impacting the environment.
Track2Realty: Tata Value Homes has partnered with google to present exclusive lifestyle apartments in Boisar, near Mumbai. These apartments starting 16 lacs would be exclusively available during GOSF (10th–12th December).
Track2Realty Exclusive: Affordable housing has always been a wishful thought in Mumbai real estate and the call for the same has been reignited post the Government of India calling for a vision document to ensure houses for all by 2022. However, Mumbai is not like the rest of the country and the sky high land prices due to unavailability of developable and licensable land calls for a rethink over what precisely is feasible to create affordable housing stock in the city.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The increasing shift of corporate focus towards Noida has been a matter of both research and speculation in the region. While the critics would like to point out that the shift of the Indian business community and the Multi National Companies (MNCs) have been more due to recent economic slowdown that made the scale of economy unviable in the high rental destinations like Gurgaon, the optimists within the built environment would prefer to look at the traction points of the city.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Property analysts across the country refer Coimbatore as a market where the effects of slowdown is least visible. At a time when the other property markets across the country are reeling under slackening demand among other major worries, Coimbatore is proving to be a market where the property transactions are happening at a decent pace.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Prayag Damodar returned to the home town Ahmedabad after having spent 14 long years in the Gulf region where the only option of living has been high rises and skyscrapers. He had developed the liking for such vertical living so much that he had a feeling of missing that sky high living back home as the prevailing housing culture has been standalone residential units when he left the city.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has ordered an Income Tax department investigation against a number of real estate developers who were recently shown by an investigative portal to be willing to accept alleged black money in property transactions.
Track2Realty: Earlier in October, the US National Association of Realtors published a report which stated that buyers from India purchased residential properties in the US estimated at $5.8 billion in value during the one-year period ending March 2014.