Real Estate on path
The Asia-Pacific region continues to move in a forward motion as far as real estate is concerned and the trend is going to continue, according to the recent survey conducted by some top ranking companies. India's realty sector has maintained strong resilience in the recent financial crisis, despite slowdown in demand. More

Property Rates to ...
People looking to buy property in Gurgaon and Faridabad may have to fork out an extra 'charge'. With Haryana deciding to levy an infrastructure augmentation charge on developers — if they want to get full or partial completion certificates — chances are that the same will be passed on to buyers. More

Indian Real Estate ...
Indian real estate players are looking for more innovative ways in order to boost their sales, and one of them is the idea of making integrated township. And Pune is the city where lot of integrated township proposals are maturing. All this is set to completely change Pune's landscape and would mean a new lifestyle for lakhs of people who can afford to buy these living spaces. More

Indian Real Estate ...
The Indian real estate scenario is getting interesting day by day, especially that in the residential sector. Builders and developers who were earlier into the premium segment of housing have realised that one of the ways to beat the recession blues is to cater to the middle income group. This is one segment of the population that could not afford their dream house earlier because of very high ... More

Indian Real Estate
ndian real estate prices across the country are 10-25% lower than their peak in early 2008. Bank interest rates are lower. Still, the vast majority of the exploding middle class, which aspires to own a home, is not taking the plunge. According to prospective home buyers, properties and loans are still expensive for them. Homes are still not affordable. More

Indian Real Estate ...
Residential real estate prices are going up. In the last three months, prices of affordable apartments have appreciated by around 10% across the country. "With improvement in the sentiment in the economy, transactions in the affordable range of residential real estate have gone up. This has made developers to increase prices by 5% to 10% in the last three months," said Anshuman Magazine, MD of ... More

Feel good ...
The realty industry has finally learnt the lesson that it's not freebies that attract buyers. If a project is on time, pricing is correct and the procedure transparent, buyers will always be there in the market. If a project is viable with realistic pricing and deadlines, there is no dearth of buyers. Seeing buyers, developers have started planning new projects -- evident from the number of ... More

Mumbai Property ...
If you're looking to buy a home, this holiday season could give you that chance and more. That's because some developers are bending backwards to please you. For starters Ma Builders in Mumbai offers a free modular kitchen in NG Sun City, a residential project in Kandivli. Lodha developers will give you a discount of Rs 100 per square foot at their Thane property. And Evershine builders and ... More

Real estate ...
It is Festive season and real estate developers are looking to cash it in. Many property developers are planning to launch new projects during this period. The festive season, which usually begins late September with the Hindu festival of Navratra and continues up to Christmas, often sees higher sales of property. According to Mumbai-based Lodha Developers director Abhisheck Lodha, property ... More

Unitech revising ...
With the recent spurt of demand in the property market, the days of pre-launch booking for investors is back. CNBC-TV18 has learnt Unitech the country's second largest real estate developer is now selling apartments in its Mumbai project to potential investors, ahead of its launch, at a whopping 75% upfront payment. More

Residential real ...
Low interest rates coupled with falling real estate prices are presenting a buying opportunity to the end user both in residential as well as in commercial real estate market. Residential real estate market has seen lot of action in last couple of months. Most of the developers have recently launched and successfully sold their units in affordable housing segment. More

Delhi Real Estate ...
Interest in real estate sector is back as can be seen seen by new project announcements from Developers. With prices bring stable and developers and builders concentrating on affordable segment of the housing sector, investors of all kinds are lapping new projects. Big players like DLF & Unitech have already improved on their market share by making affordable housing projects. DLF successfully ... More

Are buyers back in
With the improvement in macro-economic conditions as well as buyer affordability, real estate developers witnessed a stronger response to new launches. With the return of liquidity to the sector in the form of FDI, QIPs and bank loans the balance sheet position of realty players has started to improve . Over the last couple of months, several developers have launched properties across cities in ... More

DLF & Unitech back ...
India's two leading realty companies, DLF and Unitech who had some serious liquidity problems because of recent global financial crisis are in the process of overcoming them. Both Unitech and DLF have raised substantial sum through qualitative institutional placement ( QIP ) route. DLF also resorted to stake sale by selling a certain percentage of their share holding in the company. More

Emaar to merge ...
The Dubai developer Emaar Properties behind the world’s tallest building plans to merge with three rivals owned by the Dubai rulers. The deal marks a push to shore up the Dubai property market which has seen downtrend due to current economic and financial crisis worldwide. The proposed merger companies are Dubai Holding subsidiaries Dubai Properties, Samar Dubai and Tatweer. According to ... More

Real Estate ...
The Indian real estate sector which has been badly hit by recent stock market crash and bad global cues, may be seeing some glimmer of hope for the first time in about a year, after two of its biggest names DLF Ltd. and Unitech managed to raise cash by way of equity sales in recent weeks. Promoters of India's largest real estate company DLF sold a 9.9% stake to raise Rs 3890 crore last week, ... More

Is Liquidity back ...
With a stable government at the centre and bulls back in stock market, suddenly there seems to be no problems of liquidity. Real estate stocks finally are back on radar of investors. Most of the stocks in the real estate and infrastructure sector have doubled from their recent lows. Corporate India's outlook has turned positive.The projects they had shelved after the global economic slide due to ... More