Fitch Ratings says in a new report that the Rating Outlook for the Indian real estate sector continues to be Negative for H212, due to persistent sluggish demand, high construction costs and liquidity pressures.
Once a happy hunting ground, real estate sector has suddenly woken up to the reality that raising money through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) is getting harder with investors being lot more discerning today.
Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) has made a representation to the Union Environment Minister Jayanti Natrajan, complaining about delays in getting green clearances from the state expert appraisal committee.
Real estate giant DLF may have to pay Rs.900 crore extra penalty if the Competition Commission of India (CCI) finds it guilty of abusing its dominant market position in three more projects in Gurgaon.
Unitech Ltd, India’s second largest real estate company, and DB Realty Ltd continued to struggle with sales in the June quarter amid rising interest rates and slowing demand—a seemingly unceasing plight they share with most of the sector.
A day after its Managing Director Vinod Goenka was arrested in the 2G spectrum scam case on Wednesday, the controversial Mumbai-based real estate company DB Realty inducted his father, K M Goenka, as a Non-Executive Director.
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.
DB Realty, the tainted Mumbai-based real estate developer whose name figured in the 2G spectrum investigations, has lost its fourth director since February.
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has suggested the government to introduce Real Estate Investment Trust and Real Estate Mutual Fund to enable investors to own a diversified portfolio of professionally managed assets in the real estate sector. In a note submitted to the government, the Chamber said that the Indian Real estate sector currently lacks any monetization vehicle for capital intensive verticals such as commercial offices and retail malls.
This is the story of the plight of a family who wanted to sell off the house. What they got in exchange was a series of harassment by the property dealer. What makes this individual experience a case study and a newsworthy item is the fact that in the absence of any regulation, how the petty local goons are operating as property dealers.