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Real estate firm Naiknavare Developers said ori Friday the company has launched, jointly with its hospitality arm Seasons, two-bed room to six-bed room luxury apartments for long stay customers under the brand name Seasons Luxury Homes. The intended users of the properties will be corporate managerial personnel who will be in Pune for long durations of even up to a couple of years. Hemant Naiknavare; director of the company, said the property will offer features and services such as fully furnished apartments, relocation service, house-keeping, residential assistant and meals on call. The customers - being long stay ones - will have the freedom to hire unfurnished apartments and use their own furniture and other interiors, Naiknavare said. The rentals for the apartments will range from Rs 35,000 per month for a two bed room house to Rs 140,000 for a six bed room one, he said. --> Source:The Times of India

As developers cut debt, offload assets and push sales, investors start trickling back Investors and analysts have begun re-rating the realty sector on optimism that the worst may be over, as the efforts of recent months and a stable global environment will help developers attract funds and boost earnings. Developers in the past year have restructured debt, sold non-core assets and tweaked product mix, helping to push up sales. This has encouraged investors to buy stocks of real estate companies and motivate analysts to revise price targets and upgrade the outlook on the sector. "The stabilisation in the international market improved financials arising out of restructuring of loans and enhanced liquidity from banks have resulted in revision in the outlook for the sector," said Dipesh Sohani, an analyst with MF Global, an equity brokerage. "The real estate players are better placed now than what they were two-three quarters before." Reflecting the positive sentiment,

WITH an upswing in the Indian equity market, the tide seems to be turning particularly for real estate developers. Realty stocks have recovered 50-60% from their 52-week lows. Recently, realty majors Unitech, Indiabulls and DLF came out with their qualified institutional placement (QIP) issue and it received a very good response. The three companies cumulatively raised a little over Rs 8,000 crore. The success of this fund-raising activity brings hope for this cash strapped sector when demand offtake is very low. Indiabulls Real Estate issued 14.36 crore equity shares at Rs 185 per share to raise Rs 2,656.5 crore through QIP. It is believed that Indiabulls will use the funding for its projects in Mumbai. Unitech too raised $325 million through QIP. Part of the funds would be used to repay debt. The promoter's stake afterthe QIP has come down in both the cases. DLF's promoters sold 9.9% stake in DLF for Rs 3,850 crore to its existing institutional investors. This money is raised

PUNE, The bait is getting more and more attractive in these Lok Sabha elections. Rice at Rs 3 per kg and film star Chiranjee-vi's LPG at Rs 100 are passe. Now the Congress candidate in Pune, Suresh Kalmadi is promising cheap one BHK flats for the middle income group if he is voted to power ,apart from 350 square feet pucca houses for slum dwellers in the city. "My manifesto will be declared soon and I will be giving out details in these. But there are many ceiling lands that could be used for such projects," he told reporters at his first press conference after being given the party ticket to contest the Pune Lok Sabha seat. What he plans to do is release lands in reserved zones that have been blocked for long because of the ULC and use these for such projects. The slum dwellers and the middle income group have always voted for me and I should not forget them, he said. Meanwhile, his rival, builder-turned-politician DS Kulkarni, who has thrown his hat into the ring and is

Dear Friends, It's been a quite a busy time in both personal and business front eventhough in currnet market situation as we get more enquiries and there is real end user demand and again becoming investors parasise where good deals are concluded and show is going on..... Further, i wish to thank first to my EAAP(Estate Agents' Association of Pune) to organize such a great, remarkable show of NAR (National Associations of Realtors) Convention held on 6 & 7th March,2009 at Correnthan Club, NIBM, Pune and brought us together to share vast knowledge of NAR-US real estate representatives and learnt quite an interesting aspects of improving business traits and improve quality/transparancy in our dealings and provide professionalism. Specially i wish to thanks Ms. Gail Lyons (Chief Course Instructor) who is also realtor in US to share her vast experience with us and given great useful inputs to implement for betterment of real estate service profession. I really personaly feel th

Following in State Bank of India's (SBI's) footsteps, other state-run banks may also come out with scheme offering home loan at a fixed rate of 8%. The Indian Banks' Association (IBA) would review the response of borrowers towards the SBI scheme after three weeks and if it finds that there has been a good response, other banks will follow suit, according to a top IBA official. "We would review the consumer's response (towards the scheme) and then take a decision accordingly," IBA chairman T S Narayanasamy told ET on the sidelines of a meeting here on Monday. Mr Narayanasamy is also the chairman of Bank of India (BoI). He said the review would be conducted after the completion of three weeks of the launch of the scheme.Last week, SBI had announced that it would offer home loans at a flat rate of 8% to all borrowers and would freeze this rate for one year. The chairman of one of the major banks, who asked not to be named, said SBI can afford to lend at such chea

There are still buyers for the super luxury home segment in Pune. Developers claim that despite depressed market conditions, this niche segment continues to attract investors. However, some of them have had to bring down rates to lure customers. Marvel Realtors, automated super luxury homes maker says that sales have picked up in the last one and half months due to correction in rates and banks easing lending. "Initially, buyers were holding decisions. With some correction in rat,es, they feel they are getting value for money. We have offered discounts of 10% to 15% less, than what we were selling at peak season rates," Vishwa-jeet Jhavar, CEO, Marvel Realtors said. Marvel has sold around Rs 20 crore worth properties in the past one and half months. "The first phase of Marvel Diva of around 3 lakh square feet is ready for possession by May 2009 and we sold 2.40 lakh square feet. These flats are in the range of Rs 80 lakh to Rs 5 crore," Jhavar said. The super 1uxury