This year's Budget comes at a time when interest rates are still high and demand for real estate has remained poor.
Godrej Properties closed FY26 with record bookings and presales, exceeding its annual guidance, but brokerages express concerns over weak cash-flow generation and the ability to sustain growth amidst a muted real estate market.
Indiabulls Financial Services on Thursday said leading international real estate consultancy Knight Frank has valued its real estate business at Rs 15,125 crore (Rs 151.25 billion).
New completions in India's office real estate sector fell by 36 per cent to 9.7 million square feet in Q1 2026, the lowest in four quarters, primarily due to developers adopting a cautious stance amid global uncertainties, particularly in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Despite this, office absorption increased by 20 per cent, indicating strong occupier demand.
Telecom major Reliance Communications plans to monetise its real estate assets as it looks to pare debt.
According to villagers in the region, builders have been doing the rounds of the area, trying to spot suitable locations for residential projects.
Ranbir Kapoor has made a significant investment, purchasing 25.7 acres of land in Pune's scenic Mulshi taluka for over Rs 16.42 crore (Rs 164.2 million), underscoring a growing trend among celebrities to favour land banking for long-term real estate appreciation and development potential.
Real estate is a major asset in India and it will be a "big scene" in the next 20-30 years, says investment guru Marc Faber.
Laws in several states are inconsistent with the model Bill passed by Parliament.
Low registration also seen in last six months.
Puneet Wadhwa and Debashish Pachal locate real estate stocks to watch out for.
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested the promoter of a Noida-based realty company in a money laundering case linked to alleged duping of home buyers.
'India is vulnerable to the West Asia crisis in three ways: Energy costs, the business Indian companies conduct in the region, and remittances from the Indian diaspora.'
Shahid U Balwa, one of the promoters of the leading real estate company, DB Realty, as well as the controversial Swan Telecom (now Etilisat DB Telecom), has been questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister's announcement of four 'Namo Cities' aims to decentralise development and decongest Delhi, but experts warn that the initiative may face execution challenges similar to previous urbanisation plans due to inadequate coordination among NCR states.
As we had expected, real estate stocks have seen a slump in prices. The downturn may continue, so it's better to stay away.
Within a week of the CBI arresting senior bankers in the housing finance racket, the competition watchdog CCI on Monday said 11 real estate companies are already under its scanner.
Concept of a real estate Bill has been around in the government for almost 10 years now.
West Bengal could be the Bharatiya Janata Party's real test case of its business-friendly policies, points out Kanika Datta.
Buyers suffer because they often don't know the relevant details.
Prices of apartments and villas have gone up by up to nine per cent and 16 per cent respectively here during the first half of this year, indicating that the real estate market is on the way to recovery after three years of decline.
'Every period of excessive optimism eventually gives way to a correction, while periods of extreme pessimism often create the best investment opportunities.'
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Land aggregators now want to sell to large corporations because their payment is guaranteed.
Authorities in Kuwait have launched a crackdown on illegal property extensions in the wake of a devastating fire at a seven-storey building that claimed the lives of 50 people, including 46 Indians, according to a media report on Saturday.
The judgement came on a plea of 'Forum For People's Collective Efforts' , an umbrella homebuyers association, challenging the constitutional validity of West Bengal Housing Industry Regulation Act, 2017, which is more or less identical to the Centre's RERA.
The Indian banking sector is projected to experience a steady 9-13 per cent industrial credit growth in the first half of 2026, driven by capital expenditure, infrastructure development, and sectoral demand recovery, according to a Ficci-IBA survey.
The RBI reminded that the primary role of these banks is to lend for activities related to agriculture and rural development. The central bank said it has come to its notice that certain state cooperative and central cooperative banks have extended finance to the sector.
'The inflection point that really happened in the sector was during the pandemic when buyers' perception changed towards consumption and that gave a trigger to pent-up demand with the increased affordability.'
Even though the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the risk weightage on loans to commercial developers and cut general provisioning for commercial real estate, commercial banks may not start lending to the sector immediately.
With a view to exploit its real estate assets, the Indian Railways plans to lease out some of them and aims to rake-in Rs 600 crore (Rs 6 billion) through this move this fiscal, a senior Railways official said.
BRPSE's new chairman Nitish Sengupta has suggested that at least three ailing companies, which have been referred to the board, hive off some of their land and get into real estate development to become profitable again.
Developers such as DLF, Unitech and Orbit are in the process of raising around Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) in the current fiscal after they rolled over nearly Rs 9,000 crore (Rs 90 billion) debt subsequent to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowing banks to restructure loans to developers.
this move by the government is likely to iron out the current challenges for the NBFCs and in turn help the real estate sector.
Real estate sector cheers reforms in the Budget.
The Act envisages that the states and Centre will formulate specific rules for real estate regulation.
"We are not slowing down on any of our projects. Jaipur is rocking, Chennai is doing well, city-based projects such as Faridabad are also doing well," Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd Executive Arun Nanda told reporters in New Delhi on the sidelines of India Economic Summit. Fundamentals of real estate have not changed. Nanda said, there were no funding issues for its projects and the company's affordable housing projects are not going to disappear.
Police in Pune have detained the fiancee and a male friend of trekker Ketan Vishal Agarwal, who was initially believed to have died in an accidental fall at Lohagad fort. The case is now being investigated as a murder, with allegations that the two suspects pushed Agarwal into a deep gorge.
The total demand has remained subdued mainly due to high interest rates and property prices.
