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Understand The Risks Involved In Real Estate MFs

Mutual fund (MF) houses are rejoicing the securities and exchange board of India’s decision to allow MFs to launch real estate schemes. In fact, they have been waiting for almost two years to get the nod from the stock market regulator. For late comers, you don’t need lakhs or crores of rupees to invest in [...]

Tata Realty Builds IT Park

Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd declared about agreement with the southern state of Tamil Nadu to build a special economic zone for information technology.
The project, which will see an investment of more than 30 billion rupees, will include a convention centre and a luxury hotel and serviced apartments that will be built in a joint [...]

Effect of Economy On Real Estate Sector

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.

Property Investment Check List

Money invested in real estate, for income and capital growth, grants stable and expected returns, parallel to bonds. Like other investment option, this too, has certain threats attached to it. Following are the elementary factors affecting the value of a particular property.
Location: The location of a building is a important factor in determining its market [...]

Citi realty arm to buy 10% stake in Golden Gate for Rs 400cr

Citigroup’s real estate arm is set to invest around Rs 400 crore in Bangalore-headquartered Golden Gate Properties for about 10% stake.
The deal is expected to value the tier-II real estate firm at a little over $1 billion. This marks Citigroup’s back-to-back deals in the domestic real estate space in the last fortnight. Early last week, [...]

Unitech, Indiabulls defer REITs listing

Unitech and Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd (IBREL) have deferred the listing of their respective real estate investment trusts (REITs) on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) owing to the liquidity crunch in the global markets.
Both Unitech and IBREL have received approval from the SGX for the initial public offers (IPOs) of their trusts.
The move closely follows [...]

Citi And Merrill Likely To Invest Rs 2000 Crore In DLF Realty

NEW DELHI: Global financial firms Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and DE Shaw are likely to invest Rs 2,000 crore or $500 million in the DLF Assets’ (DAL) real estate investment trust(REIT), according to sources. The transaction is likely to be completed by early next week. Part of DLF Group, the largest real estate developer in the [...]

Budget ‘08: Industry Analysis

Everyone has expectations from the Budget and it is reasonable to accept that the Finance Minister cannot please everyone. The Budget speech reflects the absence of any significant tax changes impacting the real estate sector.
It was widely anticipated that the Finance Minister will clarify taxation aspects in relation to Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, [...]

Asipac to Create Investment Banking and Procurement Services SBUs for Real Estate Sector

India’s No.1 real estate development services and project marketing company Asipac today announced that it is creating new Strategic Business Units to offer Investment Banking & Asset Management Services as well as Procurement Services for the real estate sector.
Mr. Amit Bagaria, Chairman, Asipac said, “In 18 months, we have helped developers raise Rs.6290 million in [...]