Monthly Archives: January 2008

Laws for Possession of Immovable Property in India by a Person Resident Outside India

Under the law, the following categories can freely purchase immovable property in India:
i) Non-Resident Indian (NRI) - that is a citizen of India resident outside India.
ii) Person of Indian Origin (PIO) - that is an individual (not being a citizen of Pakistan or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka or Afghanistan or China or Iran or Nepal [...]

Buy A House And Get A Car Free

Real Estate businessmen of Bangalore have always been in search for techniques to grab the attention of customers for their properties. Recent publicity stunt is ‘buy a house and get a car a free gift’. For example, if a customer buys a flat of worth 200 lacs, he gets a car [...]

Economists’ Recommend Not To Cut Direct Tax Rates In Budget

Jan 09, New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram received two contradictory suggestions from economists and industrialists. “Given the circumstances that there a number of fiscal stress points in the offing, like oil bonds, MSS, pay commission, it is not prudent to start thinking of reducing tax rates,” Standard & Poor’s Chief Economist (Asia-Pacific) Mr. [...]

Sant Singh Chatwal Enters Indian Hospitality Industry

The most successful Indian hoteliers in US, Sant Singh Chatwal, has plans for hotels in India. He plans to invest 5 thousand crore to build 27 hotels. According to Mr. Chatwal, south India will be the best investment option for hotel establishment. Hence he plans to invest a major portion of total investment, [...]

Gold Achieves A New Height In The Year Beginning

Jan 08, New Delhi. Gold prices penetrated through the maximum to reach its new peak of Rs 11,150 per ten gram on the gold market due to aggressive buying by jewelers in line with a firming global trend.Gold price increased by Rs 175 per ten gram on emergence of buying by jewelers and stockiest, [...]

Real Estate Industry Spreads Over Small Cities

Disproportionate increase in property price in metro cities has resulted into expansion of hotel industry to small cities. The Giants of hotel industry are shifting their focus to cities like Ahmedabad, Bhuvaneshwar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Goa, Guwahati, Indore, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Mysore, Nagpur, Surat Vishakhapatnam and many more.
Main reason behind the change in investment [...]

Carrefour Shows Interest In Indian Retail Industry

Carrefour, A brand name for French retail, is willing to start retail industry in India. For this purpose Carrefour is in search of multiple partners. Carrefour won’t be the first foreign retailer to have multiple partners while opening shops in India. Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) chains McDonald’s and Yum! Restaurants have been [...]

Checkpoints before real estate deals for 2008

Where will 2008 take Real estate market? Based on PropertyWala.com study of real estate facts and trends from 2007, here are professional home buying and selling predictions for next year.
Home Prices Will Turn down and Flatten
Median home prices will continue to fall in softened markets. They won’t take a nose dive; though, they will float, [...]

Emaar MGF Launches IPO

Real estate firm Emaar MGF Land Limited is raising Rs 7000 crore from the market on 1st February. The company has firmed up an initial public offering of 102,570,623 equity shares of face value Rs 10 each at a price to be determined through a 100% book-building issue. The price band has been [...]

Rules for Transfer of Immovable Property in India

Immovable property transfer occurs as a big issue sometimes. Sometimes confusions make it more complex. Here’s the clear view of property transfer rules.
Immovable property can be transferred by sale or by gift or through mortgage.
NRI, PIO, Foreign national must have to follow some rules while selling immovable property in India. NRI can [...]