With home prices dropping in India, foreign investors are now planning to shift their investment from residential market to commercial real estate. Many of the cities have witnessed a fall of prices in the residential sector. Moreover many unsold residential properties remain in many of the cities without finding any takers. All these factors drive […]
Tag: Foreign Investment
India Witnesses Reduced Foreign Real Estate Investment
December 18, 2012 – 1:52 pm
India recently lost a bigger amount of foreign real estate investment. UK – centered RICS reported that India real estate market in has become investor unfriendly. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors RICS said that real estate investment in India is not preferable due to many reasons. The existing real estate market situation is totally against […]
Uttaranchal deserves foreign investment
January 3, 2009 – 3:08 am
Real estate of Uttaranchal is fighting for sufficient foreign investments for its development. The real estate in Dehradun is growing at a pace. It has opportunities in industry, tourism, commerce and investment. The state is crowded with lots of real estate builders, who has various township projects for state. Though, commercial and residential properties in […]
FII Stake Not Outside FDI Limit
September 29, 2008 – 7:40 am
The finance ministry has blocked a proposal from the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) to allow foreign institutional investors (FII) to invest over and above the sectoral caps on foreign investment. FII stake should not be taken into consideration while calculating FDI in sectors, for example telecom, which have a foreign investment cap, […]
Government In A Fix Over Lehman Realty Assets
September 19, 2008 – 4:57 am
The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) and the Reserve Bank will shortly meet to evaluate the situation arising out of Lehman’s collapse, as the US giant has $500-million investment in Indian real estate projects. Foreign investment norms for real estate do not allow repatriation of funds within three years of investment. The RBI-DIPP […]
Dubai-based ETA Star Real Estate Firm Plans To Enter Asian Markets
June 24, 2008 – 7:11 am
Dubai-based ETA Star real estate firm plans to utilize its funds to develop 120 million square feet of land in India. Dubai’s ETA Star Property Developers mulls a fund of $400 million via Islamic bonds to enter Asian markets as diverse as India and Laos. The real estate firm is planning to utilize its own […]
UK property investors look to India
May 29, 2008 – 5:05 am
As property prices continue their downward spiral in Britain, investors here are looking to India, which is increasingly seen as a hotspot due to rising real estate prices across the country. Every week, leading mortgage lenders and estate agents publish figures of declining prices, higher number of houses on the market, fewer buyers and smaller […]
Overseas Investment Spurs Dubai real Estate Development
May 27, 2008 – 6:47 am
The real estate sector in Dubai is being driven mainly by overseas investment, with individuals and companies from other countries consist of 60-70 % of the buyers of freehold units. 2 out of 3 of all the new freehold properties in the emirate are bought by overseas companies or persons who live outside the country, […]
Effect of Economy On Real Estate Sector
April 28, 2008 – 7:35 am
India is taken as the one of the fastest rising economy in the world and in this present economic status, real estate has appeared as one of the most beneficial investment sectors for domestic as well as overseas investors. The economy and the real estate sector in particular are high on its ride to prosperity.
Multiple FDI projects may give relief to realty players
April 1, 2008 – 7:02 am
Real estate companies, who are bound by strict conditions for bringing in foreign direct investment (FDI), can now look forward to a breather. Companies developing several projects simultaneously are likely to get a waiver on meeting FDI conditions on some if majority of the projects are FDI-compliant. Realty companies are subjected to conditions such as […]
