The Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI)-CREDAI has set up a four-member committee to look for the best option for developers to compute Value Added Tax (VAT) and, in turn, pass it on to buyers who purchased flats between 2006 and 2010.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that investors, who attend the Emerging Kerala meet, with real estate motives will have to return empty handed. “Not an inch of land will be sold for projects approved in the meet. Can you think any secret business deal is possible in Kerala?,” he asked the editors of various media organisations in the state during an interaction ahead of the Emerging Kerala meet on Thursday, Sep 6.
The Revenue department on Thursday, Sep 6, said it will soon come out with accounting standards for the real estate sector to bring about uniformity in reporting of financial results.
With overall vacancy increasing and business and investor sentiment low, why are office rents in many micro markets in Mumbai still increasing? In the recent past, many corporate decision makers have been wondering aloud why the rents and capital values in markets such as Lower Parel and BKC have risen in the last 4-5 months.
Can meat & eggs offered to God resolve realty crisis? Well, the real estate community in Coimbatore thinks so. More than 1000 members of the real estate sector, including key promoters, sought diving intervention on Wednesday, Sep 5, to bail them out of the crisis they were in, caused by decreasing demand and prices.
The Real Estate Regulation and Development Bill, 2012, has been sent to the Ministry of Law and Justice for vetting, after which it will be moved to Cabinet.
Realty sector in India has witnessed more than $2-billion private equity investments in the last 12 months, with investors treading cautiously, according to real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.
It is just the pipeline visibility that is driving developers like Supertech which is building north India’s tallest residential as well as tallest mixed land use project. Theyrather assert that changing demographics, lifestyle and growing aspirations have encouraged them to launch conceptually designed projects with facilities which are matchless and desired by the people.
No end to the global housing market downturn is in sight, except probably in the US, according to a survey of global house price trends by the Global Property Guide Asia is weakening, and house price falls in the worst-hit European crisis countries are dramatically accelerating.
UGL Limited has announced that its property services business, comprised of UGL Services (including the Unicco, Equis and Premas operations) and DTZ, will be united under a single global brand. Since 5 December 2011, when UGL acquired the trading operations of global real estate services company DTZ Holdings plc, the two companies have cobranded as UGL Services and DTZ.