By FCA Vimal Punamiya UNFAVOURABLE POINTS OF BUDGET 2010 The Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) for the companies has been increased from 15 per cent to 18 per cent. The income of a non-resident shall be deemed to accrue or arise in India under... (Continue reading)
With developers undertaking huge size projects, market sentiments improving and changing lifestyles of the consumers, it is now imperative that today proper advertising & marketing strategies are planned and executed. Branding and corporate communications in the real estate industry is... (Continue reading)
While Mumbai and India are still welcoming the skyscraper culture, the developed world has gone a step ahead and is planning to build vertical cities. A vertical city is a city within a city, with complete residential, commercial units as... (Continue reading)
Developed by the Pradhikaran-Pimpri Chinchwad New Township Development Authority (PCNTDA) Ravet is extremely strategically placed on latter-day Pune’s map. By virtue of the fact that it is the first town one encounters after leaving the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, it is now... (Continue reading)
By Dr Sanjay Chaturvedi Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan scrapped the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Pune just before the assembly elections. The main reason behind it was that farmers were opposing to the SEZ. The SEZ was to be... (Continue reading)
Between 1901 and 2007, the city registered a mean temperature rise of 1.62o C. The sea level around the island city is rising by 2.4 mm every year.... (Continue reading)
The timing at which Dubai announced its realty crashes, the answers may be etched in India filling the void of becoming an ideal opportunity for NRI investments. ... (Continue reading)
RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE The effects of the slowdown were still noticeable across the country in the first quarter of 2009. However, towards the middle of the year, residential rates in some of the larger cities began showing an upward curve. The... (Continue reading)
The global financial crisis of 2008 altered the landscape for real estate finance in India. “Return maximization” is no longer the fundamental investment strategy. Post the emergence of “risk-minimization” as a focus area, investment structure has drifted from unsecured equity... (Continue reading)
Amidst the recent turmoil faced by India’s real estate industry, the residential sector has emerged as the sole bright spot for retail investors. Its resilience in the face of negative global cues is as much a result of the... (Continue reading)