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CREDAI To Soon Launch 200 Housing Projects Across The Country

Monday, 05 February 2018

Real Estate

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Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (Credai) is to launch 200 housing projects across the country to contribute to PM Narendra Modi's target of providing houses to all by 2022, said its new chairman K Subba Raju. Addressing the media here on Monday, Subba Raju said the project will be launched by Union urban housing develo...

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Home Prices Across India On The Rise: RBI

Monday, 05 February 2018

Real Estate News

Real estate prices continued to grow steadily according to the latest installment of Reserve Bank of India's House Price Index (HPI). While the overall index sequentially rose 2.2% at the end of December 2016, almost seven of the ten cities tracked by RBI saw increase in price last year. The House Price Index, that measures price levels across the ...

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Why 2017 Is The Best Year To Buy Affordable Houses

Monday, 05 February 2018

Home Buying

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Over 1.66 crore applications for various credit linked subsidies for housing loans have been received through various channels by the government in the past few months. In a country where online internet penetration is a mere 37% overall and 62% urban, this data available with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation shows that digital...

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4 Reasons Why Residential Real Estate Prices Will Rise Post RERA

Monday, 05 February 2018

Guide Property Investment

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RERA has been implemented with the purpose of enhancing transparency, mitigating information asymmetry and applying a uniform 'code of conduct' for developers across various states. It seeks to reduce the volatility seen in the real estate sector in the past, and eliminate the trust deficit between the two primary industry stakeholders - builders a...

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Will GST Make Homes Expensive?

Monday, 05 February 2018

Investing In Real Estate

Come July 1, under-construction projects will attract a goods and services tax (GST) rate of 12%. Amid all the hullabaloo over the unified tax regime in the country, speculation is rife on would it lead to a hike in property prices? The members of CREDAI (RNE) Raj Nagar Extension, believe that property prices will go up once the new tax regime kick...

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Demand Pattern In Residential Real Estate Changed In 2017: Sunil Agarwal, RICS

Monday, 05 February 2018

Guide Property Investment

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Sunil Agarwal, FRICS, Associate Dean and Director, School of Real Estate, RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University It has been an action packed year for the real estate sector. The year 2017, saw the implementation of two historic legislations, the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 and Goods and Services Tax (GST), which ...

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Real Estate Still Remains Desirable Asset For All India

Monday, 05 February 2018

Real Estate News

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Pune: In a year marked with a series of policy changes to bring in more transparency, real estate remained a desirable asset for Indians as more than 15 lakh people actively searched to buy property in 2017, according to a report released on Wednesday. "How India searched for Homes in 2017", prepared by online realty site Magicbricks, analysed cons...

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Steps That Can Re-Monetize Real Estate Sector And Bring It Back To Its Glory

Friday, 02 February 2018

Real Estate News

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The real estate industry has undergone a lot of changes, both good and bad, in the past few years. While the sector has seen a lot of regularization and improved accountability, it has also been at an all-time low since 2012. The introduction of the Real Estate Act, GST, Relaxation of FDI regulations and launch of the smart cities plan, that should...

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Student Housing – Is It The Next Big Asset Class For Real Estate Investors?

Friday, 02 February 2018

Investing In Real Estate

If you have been fishing into the world of real estate investment, there are certainly ways to go about it. For an investor, there are a plethora of housing options such as leasing, renting, service apartments or even list a spare room on Airbnb. But there is another niche real estate market that has been left untapped. Benefits of student housing ...

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What Is Enemy Property Act?

Friday, 02 February 2018

Real Estate

When countries go to war, they generally seize the properties in their own nations of the people and organizations of the enemy country. This occurred amid the First and the Second World Wars when both the United States and the United Kingdom seized properties of German companies and nationals. Properties that are seized under these conditions are ...

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