The Swargate police have booked an American national for duping a city-based real estate agent to the tune of ₹47 lakh. According to the police, the accused Antheshia Smith, initially befriended the 59-year-old victim on Facebook and interacted with the real estate agent for a few days. The accused was interested in investing in the real estate sector in Pune. Read More

Indiabulls Real Estate expects to garner a sales revenue of over Rs 30,000 crore from its 14 ongoing projects, being developed mainly in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai, the company said. In his message to shareholders in the annual report, Indiabulls Real Estate Chairman Sameer Gehlaut said the company has a well-diversified presence in both commercial and housing segments. “With the recovery Read More

For developers, drone images and videos can be a very powerful tool for marketing | Image via Tech in Asia India’s new drone regulations are set to change the landscape of the real estate sector from December, as the 3-D mapping of properties will not just become powerful tool for marketing but will further boost transparency and accountability, industry experts say. The commercial use Read More

los Angeles, Sep 10 (IANS) Actor Adam Thomas, who is known for playing the role of Donte Charles in the BBC drama “Waterloo Road”, has started working as a real estate agent. The 30-year-old actor, who famously starred on “Emmerdale” for nine years before leaving it in January this year, is now a sales executive for Kamani Property, reports dailymail.co.uk. Read More

A government housing society with a single occupant. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint Time has stood still for the ghost housing societies of Greater Noida. Three years ago when this correspondent walked the broad roads of Sector MU-I in Greater Noida, with their lovely service road trees leading to gated communities, he had found few people actually living in the fully finished Read More

Government incentives to boost the residential real estate sector, especially budget housing, may push housing credit growth to 17-19 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to a report. Government incentives to boost the residential real estate sector, especially budget housing, may push housing credit growth to 17-19 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to a report. Read More

War profiteers, terror financiers and drug traffickers sanctioned by the US in recent years have used Dubai’s real-estate market as a haven for their assets, a new report released on Tuesday alleges. The report by the Washington-based Center for Advanced Defense Studies, relying on leaked property data from the city-state, offers evidence to support the long-whispered rumours about Dubai’s real-estate boom. Read More

With today’s sector-agnostic entrepreneurship resulting in the advent of innovative solutions, it only becomes natural to check for and apply these models to sectors that are generally offbeat. The best example of such a domain is the Indian real estate segment which is often believed, both by consumers as well as experts, to be widely misunderstood. Today’s entrepreneurs believe that Read More

If there is an industry that has undergone a tumultuous period for the past couple of years, it has been the Indian real estate market and within that, especially the residential segment. The residential market has been in the midst of a slowdown in the past 2-3 years on account of prices that had run ahead of themselves, launches based on Read More

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint How quickly the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, or RERA, turned a year old. There are many reasons to celebrate its first anniversary as it has brought much needed transparency in the industry along with a boost to buyer sentiment. However, it is also imperative to do a health check one year down the line Read More