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State Bank of India has launched two special home loan schemes that assure low interest rates in the first three years, upping the ante for its rivals in the mortgage market that has turned bullish following a pick-up in home sales in May. SBI Easy Loan for amounts up to Rs 30 lakh and SBI [...]

Activity levels are gaining traction in the near moribund housing market as a flurry of interest rate cuts, price drops and the building industry’s focus on affordable housing start to lure buyers back into the market. A cross section of banks, property developers and real estate consultancies that SundayET spoke to confirmed that the rise [...]

The real estate sector plays a significant role in India’s economy. Almost 5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is contributed by housing alone and an unit increase in expenditure in this sector has a multiplier effect and the capacity to generate income as high as five times the increase in expenditure. According to [...]

Demand in the Indian residential market is expected to turn positive in 2010 due to improvement in affordability, steady economic growth and greater liquidity, says a Crisil research report on the real estate sector. However, the decline in the currently overpriced capital values of all three real estate segments of residential, commercial and retail will [...]

Real estate firm Ozonegroup is all set to commence its Rs 2,500 crore residential project in the city on 42 acres of land. The project, ‘The Metrozone’ at Anna Nagar, would have 1,600 apartments across 29 towers. “This is our flagship project in city and the total project cost is Rs 2,500 crore’’, Ozonegroup Managing [...]

Laxity in promoting Coimbatore as next IT destination after Chennai,time-consuming approval process, speculative land prices, conservative nature of people and lack of political clout are some of the key reasons identified behind the sluggish growth in real estate in the techcity. Speakers at a forum organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (Coimbatore) and Jones Lang [...]

Till last year, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were the flavour of the season. But for some developers, the downturn in the global economy is now forcing them to surrender their SEZs despite having received formal approvals from the Centre. On Tuesday, the Board of Approval of the ministry of commerce and industry in Delhi will [...]

Foreign fund house Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius has picked up a 0.11 per cent stake in domestic real estate developer Indiabulls Real Estate for Rs 7.45 crore. As per the data available with the Bombay Stock Exchange, in a block deal Citigroup today purchased three lakh shares of Indiabulls Real Estate at a price of [...]

After struggling for months to sell large parts of its land bank to repay part of its debt, Bangalore-based Sobha Developers Ltd has changed tack. The realty firm is now scouting for joint developments and looking to sell smaller plots to keep the cash flowing. Several realty and infrastructure projects have been deferred or scrapped [...]

Credit rating agency CRISIL has started grading real estate valuers with the very first grading announced for a Mumbai based valuer. The grading of real estate valuers is expected to facilitate benchmarking for the valuers and also help banks, housing finance companies, real estate mutual funds, select real estate valuers for specific valuation assignments. The [...]