Consultation India - Pune, Mumbai Real Estate/ Properties Investment, Property Management Services

Source: AME INFO United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, June 24 - 2008 at 08:00 Marwan Bin Galita, chief executive of Dubai Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera), said there is no direct link between property ownership and residence visas in the emirate, reported Gulf News. Noting that it is 'not a must' that those who buy a property can get a residence visa, he said that even if an investment company applies for a residence visa for a buyer, the residency department could reject it.

Source: The Economic Times Dominic Whiting SINGAPORE I N THE property world, the momentum appears to be with Asia. Funds designed to buy offices in Tokyo or build homes in China and India are sucking up money from Western investors eager to enter a region so far only grazed by the global credit crunch. But is the easy money to be made elsewhere? Maybe in the ravaged London market in the United States in a few months if price declines slow, or even in undervalued Asian property stocks rather than in bricks and mortar? At this week's Reuters Global Real Estate Summit, fund managers ING Real Estate and LaSalle Investment Managers, the property arm of British insurer Prudential and Dubai's ETA Star Property Developers all said they were raising new funds this year to invest in Asia. Hailing strong regional growth and a more mature investment landscape in Asia, where the advent of real estate investment trusts (REITs) has brought more transparency to the murky world of property deve

Source: The Hindu Business Line New Delhi, June 24 The Indian real estate and housing space emerged as the darling of foreign investors in 2007-08, clinching FDI equity inflows of about Rs 8,749 crore, a near five-fold increase over FY07. "The investors have seen that the real estate potential in India is huge. The returns are quite attractive. In fact, we see the trend picking up even further this year as the prices are getting more attractive for investors," Mr Ra-mesh Sanka, Chief Financial Officer at DLF said. Late last year, DLF Ltd had sold 49 per cent stake in eight residential project SPVs to private equity investors for a total consideration of Rs 1,675 crore. A Merrill Lynch & Co entity had bought 49 per cent equity in seven residential projects in Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi and Indore for Rs 1,481 crore. The company headed by Mr K.P. Singh - has also diluted 49 per cent stake, in another middle-income housing project in Panchkula, Haryana, to Brahma Investments

Source: The Financial Express At least 68 million Indians will require independent housing by 2015 and add to the housing demand of nation due to age-demographic effect. Inthecase of urbanpopu-lation, the additional need for housing would be 31 million, a report on the 'Study of Residential Housing Demand in India prepared by the Nation-al Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) for National Housing Bank (NHB) said. NIBM has forecasted additional demandforhousingfor 2012-13 at around 6.79 million, a figure that has been projected by the 11th Planning Commission. Studying the linkages between housing demand and other sectors like steel and cement production, NIBM has estimated a 10 % increase in realised demand for houses (proxied by number of loans disbursed by HFCs and banks) resulting in a 4.59 % increase in steel produc-tionand 4.67% in cement production. A typical borrower, according to the study, would most likely to be a male in the age group of 40-50, a significant 25% were belo

Source: The Economic Times Properties in the metros are literally going out of the reach of common people, the latest is to invest in affordable houses on the periphery, and later on encash these assets to purchase another house in the city. ET Realty explores the idea of buying property in the peripherals. M eet the new home buyer, who is actually a medium-term investor with a long-term end-user perspective first, an investor on the outskirts of the city, and later, a buyer in the city. Take a look at the case of Sanjit Baijal, a guy in his late twenties who works with a retail company. He wanted to own a house in Delhi itself. Anything which can be called a decent accommodation comes for nothing less than Rs 50 lakhs, whereas, he had only Rs 15 lakhs to spare. The result- he explored options in this range and combed the projects across Delhi NCR. The projects in affordable range were all on the periphery of Delhi, further away from the suburbs. He finally invested at the Ansal Town p

Emaar MGF Land, a joint venture between Dubai's Emaar Properties and India's MGF, is to develop 31 million square feet of area in 10 locations in South India with a planned investment of $3bn. The first of these developments to be launched is Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club, a leisure and residential community in Hyderabad. The $1.4bn project features an 18-hole championship golf course, luxury residences, large format retail facility, luxury & boutique hotels and IT park.

Source: The Times of India Mumbai: Small flat-owners across Mumbai could expect greater relief in their property tax assessments. All party MLAs on Tuesday proposed that no changes will be made in the tax structure for flats with an area up to 500 sq ft for an initial five-year period. Put simply, lakhs of middle-class residents in chawls in the island city and those living in old buildings in suburban Mumbai could be spared any increase in the property tax which would shortly be levied on the basis of the market value of a property as against its rental value. The proposal was discussed at the joint select committee meeting of the state legislature which met on Tuesday to seek an all-party consensus to shift to the capital value system of determining property tax while protecting the interests of the middle-class. At present, property tax is calculated on the basis of the rents determined in 1940. Minister of state for urban development Rajesh Tope chaired the meet. While the MLAs una