Tuesday 24 March '09
In a bid to preempt any more construction on private forest land, the state government has ordered all non-agriculture permissions issued on such lands to be revoked.Friday 20 March '09
More than half the houses built in six major cities over the last two years are lying unsold, estimates a leading real estate research agency.Sunday
15 March '09First there were the signboards and hoardings offering discount sales in every second retail store, indicating the desperation of businessmen during these bleak times of an economic downturn. Now, the slowdown is manifesting itself in the shrinking demand for retail space across malls and high streets.Friday
13 March '09What the Americans did to terror-proof their buildings after 9/11, the state government will do for its buildings after 26/11.Saturday
7 March '09With investor interest in the realty market down, developers are calling for bookings from buyers even before their projects have got approval.Thursday
5 March '09The state government has issued the final notification on the cluster policy for redevelopment of buildings older than 40 years in the city.Wednesday
4 March '09In an all-time low for the National Textile Corporation, the company drew a blank at the auction of its Finlay Mills on Tuesday.Tuesday
3 March '09In a first-of-its-kind exercise in the state, the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit has commissioned a study to estimate the housing shortfall in Mumbai and other cities.Wednesday
25 February '09Rubina and Azhar, whom the world watched while Slumdog Millionaire sweeped the Oscars, have more good news in store when they return.Wednesday
25 February '09The Centre on Monday approved three more Special Economic Zones totalling 157 hectares for Maharashtra.Tuesday
24 February '09Developers in the city who have been objecting to the stringent environmental norms for their projects have reason to cheer.Sunday
22 February '09The Central Government’s economic stimulus packages have laid special emphasis on the housing sector.Saturday
21 February '09At a time when land deals have come down to almost nil, the country’s largest private sector power utility, Tata Power, has taken a prime plot of land at the Bandra Kurla Complex on lease at Rs 86.11 crore.Sunday
15 February '09The labyrinth of over 60-year-old buildings at Gola street in Fort has nothing to differentiate one from the other except for the narrow strips of soggy house gullies separating them.Wednesday
11 February '09The National Textile Corporation has drawn up a list of nine mills on a total of about 90 acres in the heart of the city which the government-run company plans to put on the block soon.Sunday
8 February '09The resurrection of the famed Hotel Sea Rock, 15 years after it closed, has hit a roadblock again.Saturday
7 February '09It’s a three-letter word that has been the nightmare of urban planners and the delight of builders. More so as many recent state government policies seemed to revolve around raising FSI, a move some critics brand as arbitrary and link it to elections due later this year.Friday
6 February '09Real estate developers scouring the city for that precious bit of land may just hit a bonanza in the form of 64 hectares of land. To encourage tabela owners to sell their land and move their cattle-sheds out of the city...Friday
6 February '09For 25 years now, Vivek Vanjare’s father, an office assistant in a private Mumbai firm, doggedly tried his luck each time the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority came out with a housing scheme in the financial capital.Sunday
1 February '09With the second home market for scenic luxury villas and weekend getaway bungalows finding no takers in slowdown times, developers are looking at alternative means.Sunday
18 January '09Close on the heels of increasing manifold the buildable area for star hotels in Mumbai, the state government has decided to extend the largesse to hotels in Navi Mumbai also.Saturday
17 January '09Three decades after they went their separate ways, the class of ’79 of IT-BHU (Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University) had a reunion of a different sort.Saturday
17 January '09Three decades after they went their separate ways, the class of ‘79 at the IT-BHU has reunited for a purpose.Thursday
15 January '09The state government has issued notices to some former ministers who have not vacated their ministerial bungalows despite being dropped from the Cabinet more than a month ago.Monday
12 January '09“Train mein bahut dhakka bukki hota hai. Par ab hum khush hai,” says 13-year-old Pradeep Tangade, a resident of St Catherine of Siena Orphanage at Bandra.
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