Tag: Income Housing

Housing ministry’s offer for small home buyers

The housing ministry has offered a veritable bonanza for first-time house buyers in the low and middle income groups, suggesting tax breaks, cap on prices and freeze on interest rates. It has also suggested a one-time debt-restructuring for realtors. Keeping the middle class vote bank in view, the government wants to benefit the urban lower […]

Housing trust members threaten to go on hunger strike

MUMBAI: “We do not want charity. We will construct our own houses”. Repeating this refrain, crusaders of middle income housing are pushing their demand of implementing the government rule (GR) of 1983 that promises allotment of plots for construction of affordable group housing. According to the GR, the state enables housing societies to construct homes […]

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 […]

DLF cuts target by a third due to property slump

DLF Ltd has cut its current fiscal deliverable targets by about 33% following the deterioration in the housing and commercial property market. The company is now expecting to deliver 15 million square feet against a guidance of 22-24 million square feet at the beginning of this fiscal. It has completed about 7 million square feet […]

NCR Faces Fall In Real Estate Projects

New housing project launches in the national capital region (NCR) slumped by 20% during January-June 2008. This is explained by the slowdown in demand due to appreciation in real estate prices and rising interest rates for borrowers. The first half of this year also saw a marked shift in developers’ strategy towards mid-income houses, as […]

Investors Can Scale Operations With DLF

Investors who want to take advantage of growth in the domestic real estate sector can draw strength from DLF’s impeccable delivery record and scale of operations. A prominent player in the National Capital Region (NCR), DLF is the largest listed realty company in India. Besides being present in homes, offices and shopping mall segments, it […]