Tag: Property Investors

Realty Investors Take Equity Route To Offset Tax Burden

Though the realty sector has been hit by the general economic slowdown, smart property investors, who raked in the moolah when the going was good, made use of the equity markets to reduce the tax they paid on those gains. According to tax consultants, people whose income is derived from other sources, say a salaried […]

Property Loans Default

The number of commercial property loans in default has soared 400% in just 1years, according to a report. The study of bank lending to the commercial property industry illustrates that while the amount lent continued to rise in 2007, nearly four hundred loans slipped into default, up from fewer than eighty in 2006. Although the […]

Property market to go global

The number of major global investors in the GCC property market is expected to more than double this year, according to research by Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consultancy. Until this year, few of the “global 100” property investors had ventured into the Gulf, despite a decade of strong growth in several countries.

Developers are targeting youth

MUMBAI, May 2 – Indian property investors are aiming lower- to mid-end house owners in the booming economy now that sales of luxurious apartments have slowed. With the number of families earning more than five thousand dollar per annum set to double to around twenty million in the coming two years, demand for small and […]