Godrej Properties partners with Royal LePage to tap Canadian buyers
Godrej Properties has announced that it has partnered with Royal LePage to help Canadians and non-resident Indians (NRIs) invest in India’s growing real estate market.
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Rising aspirations & value consciousness driving luxury housing-I
Developers are outdoing each other in bringing the latest technology, and offering exclusive amenities and luxuries, not to mention the big-ticket designer names. Track2Realty finds the concept of luxury living is increasingly being redefined as the Indian real-estate market matures. There is no dearth of buyers either, provided luxury living is customised with buyers’ profile, taste, choice and needs.
Infrastructure deficit – bane of the far suburbs
It is a latter-day fact that project development on the outskirts of Indian metros begins before the necessary infrastructure has been put down. This happens because demand for developed spaces in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai is high enough to make even hastily established projects financially feasible for developers.
Indian firm bags township project in Rwanda
Indian realty firm Synergy Property Development Services Ltd bagged, through international bidding, a $153-million township development project in the central African country of Rwanda.
Realtor ordered to pay for missing deeds
The Nashik consumer court has ordered Dattatraya Kokate, Kishor Chopde and Arun Kapde of Bhagwati Constructions to prepare deeds of apartments in favour of five customers who had filed independent complaints in the court against the developer. Every customer also has to be given Rs 15,000 as compensation for mental harassment and Rs 1,000 to compensate for the court procedures.
Theme Ventures signs Mumbai realty cos to sell residential properties to corporates
Below the line marketing company Theme Ventures has signed a group of well-known real estate companies in Mumbai to sell the residential properties directly to the corporate employees by setting up shops inside the large work premises, the news reports said.
PEs lapping up IT parks, SEZs for assured returns
Real estate-focused Private Equity Funds are looking at investing in pre-leased commercial projects, including IT Parks and Special Economic Zones (SEZs), as they look for assured returns from their investments.
CCI analysis of relevant market in real estate sector raises many questions
In the wake of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposing a hefty penalty of Rs. 630 crore on DLF, the anti-monopoly regulator has been flooded with a host of real estate related consumer complaints which may not be in the ambit of CCI. CCI should draw a line that bifurcates between what falls in its domain and what is in the consumer protection ambit. However, in the absence of scientific economic analysis of the relevant market, both in product category and geographic category, the two legs of the relevant market, the sector is keeping its fingers crossed as there has been a clear anomaly in defining the relevant market by the CCI.
Eldeco Chairman S K Garg arrested in graft case
The CBI has arrested the CMD of realty firm Eldeco in connection with its probe in an alleged graft case in which some senior Income Tax officials have been nabbed by the agency.
Indian cities to house 85 crore by 2050: Study
With growing urbanisation in India, nearly 85 crore people are estimated to live in cities across the country by 2050, a latest report by industry chamber CII and realty consultant Jones Lang LaSalle said.