Category Archives: Real Estate
Is the government’s bailout package for real estate enough to revive the sector?
Such in line with the announcements made by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in September, the cabinet on November 7 approved a Rs 25,000 crore special window to provide funding to stalled housing projects in a bid to revive the sector. According to the government, as many as 1,600 projects with 458,000 dwelling units will be covered under this. While Read More
Govt to launch real estate e-commerce platform in Jan: Hardeep Singh Puri
To ease the process of buying a house, the government will soon launch an e-commerce platform, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced at the first National RERA Conclave held in Lucknow on November 4. “We’ve held discussions with both Credai and Naredco, and we will soon come up with an e-commerce portal for the real estate sector, possibly Read More
Indiabulls Real Estate arm sells 100% stake in Century for £200 mn
Decides to focus only on Mumbai and NCR markets Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd (IREL) on Saturday said its wholly-owned subsidiary has divested its entire stake in Century Ltd, which indirectly owns London-based Hanover Square property, to Clivedale Overseas Ltd, an entity owned by the promoters of IBREL for £200 million. In April, the company in a presentation said that it Read More
China’s real estate e-platform Fangdd makes Nasdaq Debut
NEW YORK — Fangdd Network Group, a leading Chinese online property technology company, listed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq Global Market on Friday under the ticker symbol DUO. The deal size of the IPO contained 6 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs) at a price of 13 U.S. dollars apiece, each representing 25 Class A ordinary shares, Read More
Trulia founder Pete Flint backs real estate startup Modus
The founders of Seattle-based Modus cold-emailed Pete Flint, the founder of Trulia and a current managing partner at the venture capital firm NFX, for months, to no avail. In a last-ditch effort, Alex Day, Jai Sim and Abbas Guvenilir sent one more message to the investor whose real estate listings tool sold to Zillow in 2014 for $3.5 billion. They were at a coffee shop Read More
Real estate sector attracts private equity worth $3.8 billion in first 3 quarters
The investments were led by Blackstone, Hines, Ascendas, and Brookefield With investments led by Blackstone, Hines, Ascendas, and Brookefield, cash-starved Indian real estate sector has attracted close to $3.8 billion in private equity (PE) from January-September 2019. This is a 19 per cent rise year-on-year (YoY). “During the first nine months, a total inflows equalled over $3.2 billion in the Read More
RITCHIE TORRES REAPS REAL ESTATE CASH IN BRONX CONGRESS RUN
City Councilmember Ritchie Torres’ bid to represent the South Bronx in Congress is raking in real estate cash, campaign finance records show. Torres leads a crowded pack of Democrats seeking to replace retiring Rep. José Serrano, pulling in a top $878,000 since declaring his candidacy in July. At least $110,000 of that came from people with ties to the real Read More
Real estate market sentiment drops to demonetisation-period levels: Survey
Despite a slew of measures to arrest the slump by the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to boost liquidity and revive demand, current sentiments of the real estate stakeholders in India has plummeted to a level earlier seen during the 2014 pre-elections and demonetisation in 2016, a survey has said. According to the latest survey by industry Read More
Stock Market: Sensex, Nifty trade tepid on negative FIIs; IRCTC IPO settles at Rs 626
The stock market of India was sideways on negative foreign institutional investors (FIIs). The BSE Sensex went down 30 points to 30,096 levels while the 50-stock Nifty 1 point down at 11,303 levels. The Bank Nifty index was 22 points up at 28,064 levels. Speaking on the current market scenario Sumeet Bagadia, Vice President at Choice Broking said, “Market is Read More
Uttar Pradesh builders and real estate authorities stare at Rs 200 crore in penalties for failing compliance
Builders who failed to comply with an Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP RERA) order to handover possession of units may now have to cough up a cumulative Rs 200 crore as penalty. Presently, more than 15 developers, the Ghaziabad Development Authority and Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority have been issued notices for the non-compliance. UP RERA identified 397 such projects in Ghaziabad, Read More