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To bare it all

Saturday 06 February, 2010

In the absence of any law on compulsory disclosure norms, real estate developers are taking innocent home buyers for a ride with misleading advertisements.
Banks to review teaser home loan plans next month

Saturday 06 February, 2010

The country’s top lenders have decided to review the future of fixed-cum-floating rate schemes in March.
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Missing deadlines

Saturday 30 January, 2010

The real estate sector was hit hard by the credit crisis of 2008 after years of booming demand. Property prices had doubled in the two years...
City Lights

Saturday 30 January, 2010

Country’s two largest lenders SBI and ICICI Bank have ruled out an imminent hike in lending rates, much to the relief of thousands...
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Ensuring unrestricted ownership

Saturday 23 January, 2010

Buying a property is an elaborate procedure that can tie you up in knots unless you educate yourself beforehand about the intricacies of the entire exorcise.
SIDBI, NHB seek extension of refinance facility

Saturday 23 January, 2010

SIDBI and National Housing Bank have requested the Government to extend the refinance facility announced in the last Budget for one more year.
To allow high rises or not?

Saturday 16 January, 2010

Suburbs around Delhi such as Gurgaon, Noida, Indirapuram and Faridabad get power supply ranging from 16 to 20 hours a day. Power supply in Mumbai’s suburbs is equally bad....
Know your space

Saturday 09 January, 2010

Mumbai-based Sondeep Dhar, a 34-year-old IT professional, booked a flat in Supertech Ikon, situated in Indirapuram, a township that lies in Ghaziabad district, and is situated to the east of Delhi....
The Year of Revival?

Saturday 02 January, 2010

During the boom that lasted from 2003 to 2007, the price of real estate in the major metros grew by 35-50 per cent on an average....
City lights

Saturday 26 December, 2009

HDFC Property Fund has decided to hold back from investing over 50 per cent of its Rs 3,800 crore corpus due to adverse market conditions and unrealistic valuations sought by real-estate developers....
A time for consolidation and recovery

Saturday 26 December, 2009

The year started on a sombre note as the sector sought to recover from the after-effects of the liquidity crisis of end-2008. By the middle of the year prices had stabilised. However, developers’ eagerness to hike prices has the potential to kill the nascent recovery....
No panacea for developers’ financial woes

Saturday 19 December, 2009

During the downturn phase, developers turned to affordable housing, believing that brisk sales would rid them of their financial woes. But here, too, as inventories pile up, they have many problems to contend with....
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Hype versus reality

Saturday 12 December, 2009

Many developers have been falsely claiming that their projects will soon enjoy the benefit of Metro connectivity.
Godrej plans green township in Ahmedabad

Saturday 12 December, 2009

Godrej Properties, a real-estate arm of Godrej Group, has planned country’s largest and first green township project to be launched in January.
Crumbling Block

Saturday 05 December, 2009

It may be difficult to assess whether the Dubai debacle will affect Indian realty adversely. But it is certain that Indian developers with exposure to Dubai will see project cancellations and delays in execution and payment ....
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No longer affordable

Saturday 28 November, 2009

The much-awaited resurgence in the real-estate sector has come up against a major hindrance. Real-estate developers have once again begun revising property rates upward.
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