Tag: Home Loans

RBI Cut Rates; Residential Market Likely to Revive

According to realty experts the residential market across India has revived after RBI cut its rates recently. In fact the RBI’s rate cut has lowered the interest rates for home loans and other loans. Reducing the interest rates for home loans and other loans, RBI recently cut its key rates. The move of the RBI […]

Property Prices To Stand Stable; No Fall Round The Corner

There appears no chance for property prices to fall in the near future in any of the metro cities. All the odds are against the buyers; who were expecting a fall in the property prices to own a dream home. There is no chance; even a slight shadow of chance, for property prices to fall […]

The revised Direct Tax Code (DTC) got approval

On June 15, the revised Direct Tax Code (DTC) was released which has got approval now. This new DTC will be implemented from 2011. The aim of this revision is to simplify the existing income tax laws. There are some changes proposed in the code for the real estate sector too which go as follows: […]

Home Prices Rising Again

HDFC, one of the leading home-loans lenders has observed that the prices of residential realty which were hitting the peak levels are now undergoing pre-slowdown. Deepak Parekh, the Chairman of HDFC said that there is an improvement in the economic condition and therefore, developers have started charging premiums. Due to the land prices touching sky, […]

Who does Affordable Homes Belong to?

April 21, 2010 A really interesting question rising up these days is that is affordable housing taken seriously by our policy planners and key stakeholders? Now-a-days, talking and discussing affordable homes has become a fashion, including those who were not as such associated with realty sector. But when enters the term ‘affordable homes’, one must […]

Investments in realty attractive option for NRIs

At a time when the global financial crisis is impacting the real estate sector across the globe, NRIs are invariably in a dilemma about where to put their money in real estate. The local accommodation laws in countries like Dubai have compelled thousands of expatriate Indians to send their families back home due to soaring […]

Home loan interest cut won’t help flat buyers of mumbai

Home buyers looking for flats on the outer fringes of Mumbai and other cities like Nashik and Pune will benefit the most from the reduction in the interest rates by public sector banks on Monday. Public sector banks announced that home loans up to Rs 5 lakh would be given at a maximum interest rate […]

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 […]

RBI may relax norms for loans

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to relax the provisioning norms against loans given to real estate and other sectors. In a meeting with FM P Chidambaram on Tuesday, PSU banks have asked for relaxation of the provisioning norms, without compromising on the quality of credit to utilize their capital more aggressively. For […]

Real Estate Industry Predict Growth

Affected by slowdown and reported corrections in prices, the country’s real estate industry predict growth in the long term despite costly home loans and lack of funding for realty projects. According to a most recent study by Ernst & Young and FICCI on the country’s real estate scenario, about 62% of the respondent developers expected […]

Parsvnath seeks stake sale in projects to control debt

Real estate firm Parsvnath Developers Ltd expects stake dilution in individual projects to help it control its debt and hold margins in a rising interest rate regime, a top official said. The New Delhi-based developer reported a 16% drop in first quarter net profit at 712.9 million rupees. Net sales were also disappointing, up just […]

SBI To Review Home Loan Rates

Country’s largest lender State Bank of India on Tuesday said that it would review the interest rates on home loans in the next 10 days. SBI Chairman O P Bhatt told, “We are still examining the market condition and will take a view on home loan rates in another week or 10 days”. SBI had […]

Switching To Tier II & Tier III Cities A Good Option For Real Estate

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the double digit inflation will continue for some more weeks. The Central Government as well as the Reserve Bank of India is not going to hesitate in taking more steps to control towering prices, if the need arises with the markets also reacting adversely to the two major […]

Houses On Rent In Bangalore

Renting a house in Bangalore is as easy as never before. Thanks to notable increase in the rate of urbanization in this part of the country. Often Bangalore is termed as the IT capital of India. Many IT professionals come to Bangalore for various training activities as many IT majors have their head quarters located […]