Author Archives: Rajani

Indiabulls Real Estate gets HC nod to merge subsidiaries

Indiabulls Real Estate announced that the High Court of Delhi has sanctioned the scheme of amalgamation of Indiabulls Power Services (IPSL) with Sophia Power.
Both IPSL and Sophia Power are subsidiaries of the company. The company further said that it would be allotted equity shares in Sophia on the basis of share exchange ratio as per [...]

Affordable housing in India is not sub-prime

Thanks to a variety of witty presentations explaining financial woes afflicting the US via e-mails, everyone today is an “expert” on sub-prime;everyone is risk-averse and everyone who is not affluent is seen as “high risk” and deemed by most as “sub-prime.”
But, there are fundamental differences, both in the economic situation and the customer segment that [...]

Package for boosting economic sectors

The government is working on a fresh package of measures to stimulate various sectors of the economy which are facing a slowdown in the wake of the deepening global financial crisis.
The stimulus package is to be announced by the end of this week which is being prepared on the directions of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Apart [...]

Malls under construction, developers pray Delhi-like culture sweeps region too

Even as two recently-opened multiplexes fell considerably short of footfalls, as many as 16 new malls and such complexes will hit the tricity in a year’s time.
Against much anticipation among the residents and the developers at the time of the launch, Uppal’s Centra Mall in the Industrial Area and DT Mall at IT Park Chandigarh, [...]

John works for habitat for poors

John Abraham has got more than five lac US dollars on behalf of a Georgia based non-profit organization for building homes for the poor in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries.
John Abraham, who is the goodwill ambassador of Habitat of Humanity, received the money at a glittering ceremony here yesterday. The contribution, made by leading [...]

Hospital Project by Fortis- With DLF or Emaar?

Fortis Healthcare Ltd has a strategy to build hospitals with real estate giant Emaar MGF Land Ltd and DLF Ltd appear to be going nowhere amid Fortis’ concerns over the sites that were proposed by both builders.
Fortis had signed a memorandum of agreement with DLF in January last year to set up fifteen hospitals in townships [...]

Real Estate Market Has Enomous Power

Indian real estate market could reach a value of $60 billion by 2010, and become an “enormous” economic power, a Middle East developer has said. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Majed, vice chairman of Tanmiyat Group, was speaking ahead of the firm’s participation at property show Cityscape India 2008. Tanmiyat is among a group of international [...]

Housing demand falls 35% in smaller cities: Assocham

The demand in the housing sector fell by 35% in tier-II and tier-III cities in the first half of this fiscal due to the high cost of borrowings, says an assessment by an industry lobby.
According to the assessment of Assocham, over 20 million people in about 25 tier-II and tier-III cities, who want to purchase [...]

Citigroup gets economical support from US government

Citigroup has got US government support of $326 billion, which is roughly equivalent to one-third of the Indian economy.
Citi has received US government guarantees of $306 billion, a cover that will help it sell the sticky assets and irrecoverable mortgages on its books, and a $20-billion cash infusion from the US Treasury, which is over [...]

Rising demand for affordable homes

Property prices within the metropolitan areas of Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad and Bangalore have seen massive growth in recent years and prices in some areas are considered
to be excessive. But, outside this golden circle, in cities such as Mohali in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the boom town of Rudrapur, in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, [...]