Discounts could be luring but onus of due diligence is always on buyer
Its new industrial policy appears to benefit industrial houses
Consolidation is happening because of a prolonged slowdown in residential sales which has also brought down the business of brokerages.
Indian airports are rapidly becoming a significant growth avenue for the country's retail sector, with brands across various consumer segments actively opening stores to tap into the increasing number of flyers and strong domestic tourism momentum.
Also, LBS Marg provides easy accessibility to other parts of Mumbai.
High interest rates and prices mean low affordability. Also, developers have huge inventories.
While accusing Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of holding secret meetings with him, real estate tycoon Malik Riaz has said there is no free judiciary in the country and it is run by 'don' Arsalan Iftikhar, Chaudhary's son, reports Tahir Ali
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of a stake in AI acceleration cloud provider Neysa Networks by Blackstone-backed private equity funds and other investors, following Neysa's announcement of a USD 1.2 billion capital raise.
Companies are already diversifying sourcing, raising prices, and reworking operating models as the disruption drags on.
'The fact that housing units worth a whopping Rs 4.5 lakh crore in top seven cities are stuck under various stages of non-completion indicates that there is a dire need to create stress-asset fund which will help bail out lakhs of distressed homebuyers,' says Anuj Puri, Chairman, Anarock Property Consultants, a real estate services company.
As the rupee weakens, wealthy families are accelerating investments in global assets.
India could attract as much as Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) in foreign direct investment in real estate by 2010 if certain Acts pertaining to Urban Land Ceiling, Rent Control and Land Acquisition were repealed.
Nearly 60 per cent of Indians think that next one month would be a good time to buy real estate with improvement in consumer sentiments following formation of a stable government.
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Noida police have arrested two more builders in connection with the death of a software engineer who drowned after his car plunged into a waterlogged trench near a construction site. The arrests follow public outrage and allegations of negligence.
'While salary increments are moderating compared to last year, not all functions are moving at the same pace.'
Sebi had last year put in place a separate regulatory regime for REITs.
According to top Trinamool sources, mercurial Mamata Banerjee is again angry with the Congress -- even before the previous contentious issues could subside -- over non-allocation of a preferred bunglow for her party office in the capital. Banerjee had zeroed in on bungalow number 14 on Bishamber Dass Marg as the ideal place to house her party office in Delhi.
'War is never a solution. It's nothing but real estate business I am against any kind of violence.'
He has to appear before the court on January 24, 2019.
The real estate sector might have been caught off guard by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, but large listed developers like Godrej Properties and Prestige Estates Projects soldier on undeterred. They aim to have sales bookings of Rs 10,000 crore in the next few years.
C J Roy, founder and chairman of real estate firm Confident Group, died by suicide in Bengaluru. The incident occurred amidst ongoing Income Tax searches at his premises. Family alleges pressure from a central agency may have contributed to his death.
Rimi Sen: 'Even today, Salman Khan or Shah Rukh Khan rule Bollywood but the heroines who started with them are now doing supporting roles, playing sisters or even mothers. A woman's lifespan in the film industry is very short.'
A man has been arrested in Faridabad for allegedly grabbing land using forged documents. The accused, Aman Goyal, was arrested after a complaint was filed regarding a disputed plot in Sector 35. The complainant, Mala Sharma, claimed Goyal threatened her after she purchased the plot and he allegedly attempted to seize it using a fake agreement.
Pickleball Kingdom, a US-based company, has launched its first pickleball court in India, located in New Delhi. The company plans to expand its operations across the country through local partnerships and franchisees.
Lawyers for Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have requested an adjournment in the 190 million-pound Al Qadir case, citing difficulties in obtaining instructions from their clients in jail. The case involves allegations of corruption related to the Al-Qadir Trust.
The government's Budget announcements providing tax holiday for data centres, setting up of city economic regions (CERs) and funding to improve infrastructure in Tier-II and -III cities may give an indirect boost to India's realty sector, said industry executives.
'India has initiated a bear market and we will still go lower. It has nothing to do with the economy.'
Unaffordable real estate prices, hardening interest rates, fall in home loan disbursements and reluctance of developers to cut down prices do not augur well for the real estate market in India, feels V Hari Krishna, CIO of Kotak Realty Funds Group.
Piramal Fund Management has emerged as the largest lender to real estate developers at a time when the sector is facing severe slowdown.
The industry status will help the sector access bank lending at average interest rates
There are more opportunities in these cities than smaller ones, say real estate fund managers.
A businessman in Navi Mumbai is accused of defrauding four investors of Rs 28.4 lakh through a forex trading scheme promising high returns.
The apex court also pulled up the Gujarat government for extending the deadline till July next year for hospitals to rectify the building by-laws violations, and said the "carte blanche" notification was in teeth of its order of December 18 last year and people will continue to die in fire incidents.
Former chief secretary Vinit Chowdhary has criticised Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu over his handling of graft allegations in the Chester Hill housing project.
Deferred payment plans may come with a cost, which may not be immediately visible.
Budget might turn out to be neutral for the sector.
India's residential real estate market experienced a 4 per cent year-on-year decline in sales during Q1CY26, while office leasing reached a quarterly high, rising 6 per cent year-on-year to 29.9 million square feet, according to Knight Frank India.
India's economy registered a robust 7.7 per cent growth in the fiscal year 2025-26, an increase from 7.1 per cent in the previous year, with the January-March quarter alone seeing a 7.8 per cent expansion.
It has brought down the minimum capital requirement to $5 million from $10 million.
