Supreme Court dismisses Sahara plea against SEBI
SEBI can examine financial instruments used by two companies of the Sahara Group to raise money from the public after India’s top court dismissed its petitions on Thursday.
SEBI can examine financial instruments used by two companies of the Sahara Group to raise money from the public after India’s top court dismissed its petitions on Thursday.
Real estate developer Emaar MGF Land’s third attempt to raise Rs 1,600 crore through an initial share sale offer has hit a regulatory hurdle.
Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd. plans to raise as much as $500 million by hiving off some of its properties into a real-estate investment trust, or REIT, and listing it in Singapore.
Hospitality firm Lemon Tree Hotels is foraying into real estate, with plans to invest over Rs.1,400 crore, to launch housing projects in India in partnership with US-based investment firm Warburg Pincus.
Faced with the non-compliance by the real estate companies, Brand Capital, earlier known as Times Private Treaties, the ad-for-equity business of publishing group Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), has hired real estate consultant Knight Frank India Pvt. Ltd to manage its real estate portfolio.
Hotel Leelaventure will invest Rs.100 crore to upgrade its property in Goa in 2011 and is looking to expand presence in the country by opening new company-owned properties and taking up management contracts.
After a one-year period starting 3Q 2009, which saw a strong recovery with a record 40%+ increase in prices, the Mumbai residential real estate market has been seeing a slowdown over the last two quarters across various micro markets.
As world business and political leaders today convene at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 in Davos, Switzerland, Jones Lang LaSalle Chief Executive Officer Colin Dyer is speaking on four commercial real estate trends that are emerging as dominant forces supporting the global economic recovery in 2011.
The housing and real estate sector in India witnessed foreign direct investment (FDI) of $2.8 billion in the fiscal year (April-March) 2009-10, according to Indian Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. The statistics made available to the media at the India Home property exhibition, which concluded in Dubai on Sunday, revealed that total NRI FDI inflows through the period April-December 2009-10 stood at $320.05 million.
With liquidity from traditional channels like banks and equity markets drying up for property developers, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) have raised rates for loans to real estate companies by two-three percentage points (200-300 basis points). The rates have gone up from 15-19 per cent to 17-22 per cent. The rates vary according to the developer, the project and the requirement of the company, say NBFCs and consultants.