The country’s largest private bank, ICICI Bank, today said it is focusing on the home-loan segment as the real estate segment is witnessing a comeback after the economic slowdown. The bank had recently launched a home-loan scheme under which 8.25 per cent interest rate will be fixed for the first two-years for loans sanctioned from December 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010, irrespective of the loan amount

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Of all the bubbles that were floating around back in the heady days of 2007 and 2008, the one that was the biggest is still hanging around, being maintained by a determined (or perhaps desperate) set of people. At that time, it was clear to most of us that India’s real estate sector was a massive bubble. The froth was equally visible in the prices of real estate itself as well as the way real estate scrips were doing on the stock markets

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Realty IPOs: Bubbles that make little sense for serious investors

Parry Singh, managing director of real estate equity fund Red Fort Capital, the debt crisis many again drive banks to tighten their credit policy, a move that could jeopardise the credit flow into the realty sector. “It will also adversely affect the sentiments of investors.

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Dubai World crisis will certainly impact the Indian realty sector which has not even fully recovered from the Lehman Brothers crisis

Hot picks for investors, say analysts, are companies that have land banks located within city limits in India’s seven biggest cities: Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune. Some examples are unlisted Godrej Properties and Oberoi Constructions, which have assets in India’s financial capital and the country’s most expensive real estate market, Mumbai. During the IPO boom of 2007, the larger the land bank, the more successful the IPO, said bankers

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Indian real estate companies are collectively looking to raise $US4.5 billion of equity

Realty research firm Liases Foras launched its Real Estate Sensitivity Index – RESSEX,( www.ressex.com ) that will provide structured data and property analysis on the country’s real estate market. RESSEX is a product of detailed micro research, which covers every new real estate development excluding secondary supply and enables the user to view the market potential in both micro and market perspectives in the form of an index.

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Liases Foras launches RESSEX

Doing away with this lock-in period has been a long-standing demand of Indian developers as well as foreign investors To boost foreign direct investment (FDI) in real estate, the government may remove the mandatory three-year lock-in period for overseas investments in the sector. The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) has proposed this move, with a draft cabinet note on the proposal being circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. Doing away with this lock-in period has been a long-standing demand of Indian developers as well as foreign investors

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Government may scrap 3-year lock-in for Foreign Direct Investment’ in real estate

Mumbai-based real estate developer Peninsula Land , (part of the diversified Ashok Piramal Group, ) has revised the development plans for its Pune and Hyderabad projects from commercial to residential projects. This will help speed up the cash-flow turnaround, as residential properties have lower-gestation period than commercial projects. The company’s cautious approach and an asset light model helped it beat the realty slowdown

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Peninsula Land seen on growth track

The only yield from gold is its appreciation. In recent years, gold has been a favoured asset even among individual investors because of greater uncertainly in the real estate and stock markets. The international price of gold has been consistently rising since 2003

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It is expected that gold price will double in the next 10 years

“There is no (real estate) bubble, but the risk is if (property) prices rise faster than average income growth of say 15 percent, it could decelerate demand for homes,” said Lodha. “(Real Estate) Bubbles occur when buyers too willingly keep paying higher prices; consumers today want value for their hard-earned money.” Lodha Developers Ltd., an Indian property company that’s planning an initial share sale, expects its home sales in India will climb about threefold as a record low benchmark interest rate encourages buyers to take loans

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Lodha’s ‘Strongest Year’ May See Home Sales Triple by March

Indians now account for close to 20% of all realty sales in Manhattan, and 30% of all enquiries made, says Raphael De Niro, ( son of Hollywood star Robert De Niro ) MD of New York’s biggest property broking firm Prudential Douglas Elliman. Prices of residential apartments in Manhattan have slipped 20-25% off their peak in end-2007. Mr De Niro says he is currently negotiating with several Indian buyers who are public figures in India.

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Hi-tech township policy of Uttar Pradesh Government: A lot of high-tech townships are coming up in Uttar Pradesh after the state government’s policy in 2003 to promote development of high-tech townships with better quality of living, work and entertainment facilities. Considering the acute shortage of housing and infrastructure services, the state government announced an open-ended hi-tech township policy in May 2006 to promote private investment through development of varying sizes of such townships.

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High-tech townships of Omaxe, 3C Company and Chadha Group in Uttar Pradesh

With real estate prices going down by a whopping 25-30% and hitting rock bottom in some geographies and distress asset sales becoming the order of the day, there could be no better time than this to pick up a dream home abroad. And experts confirm that the decision to buy property overseas is driven strongly by an end-use perspective. Some of the places which now offer good investment opportunities for HNIs include the Middle East, especially Dubai.

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High Net Worth Indians and NRIs are, again, eying foreign shores for real estate investments

Home loan takers can avail of ‘Power Plus Home Loans’ at an interest rate of 8 per cent for the first year. From the second year onwards these loans will carry a floating rate of interest based on the bank’s Mortgage Reference Rate.

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Axis Bank introduces special home loan rate of 8 per cent till December 10, 2009

Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd (MLDL), formed as a result of a merger between the realty arms of Mahindra and GE Shipping in 2001, has outlined a vision to develop area of 4 million sq ft in the residential real estate space to be launched in the near-to-medium term in Mumbai, NCR, Chennai, and Nagpur. What are your key real estate projects in the commercial, residential and retail segment

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Interview of Anita Arjundas, managing director & chief executive officer, Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd

In normal times, possibility of property price rise works as a stimulus for the property buyer who is taking too much time to book a flat. In good times, property price hike creates a mass hysteria of booking without thinking

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Do you think that property buyers will stop booking flats if builders keep on increasing the property rates at this point of time?

Looks like that 3i and Indiareit, investors in Blue Ridge Hinjewadi are doing well! As per the news in The Financial Express , Indiareit Fund Advisors Pvt Ltd, a real estate fund manager promoted by the $1.8-billion Piramal Enterprises, is preparing to raise a $500-million offshore fund. To raise this new offshore fund, Indiareit is wooing London-based private equity and venture capital firm 3i, which manages 11.7 billion euros worth of assets globally.

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Good news for those who have booked a flat in Paranjape Schemes’ Blue Ridge Hinjewadi

Virendra D. Mhaiskar, chairman and managing director of IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd, says the future could be big road projects such as expressways and allied infrastructure IRB can execute projects worth around Rs6,000 crore from internal accruals and has around Rs1,500 crore to Rs2,000 crore of head room to bid for projects. What next?

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IRB aims to become debt-free, paving way for acquisitions

The Munjal family-controled Hero group, better known for its motorcycles, is entering the real estate business, with nearly Rs. 200 crore already invested The cash-rich Munjals are turning the current slump in real estate into an opportunity as they had no previous exposure in the business historically marked by aggressively priced land deals. The Ludhiana-based group plans to launch over the next two weeks an integrated township in the pilgrim town of Haridwar.

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Hero group in real estate with an integrated township in the pilgrim town of Haridwar

With demand in the sector reviving, PE funds look beyond affordable, low-cost housing projects After investing in four mid-income and low-cost housing projects in the past one year, Indiareit Fund Advisors Pvt. Ltd, (investor in Paranjape Schemes’ Blue Ridge Hinjewadi) promoted by the Ajay Piramal group, wants to refocus its strategy on projects with potential for higher returns. Indiareit will now look at deploying most of its new Rs500 crore domestic fund announced in October in redevelopment and defunct textile mills projects

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Realty funds explore new investment areas

If you are looking to finance the purchase of your dream house with a cheap bank loan, time is running out, with large public sector banks such as State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) planning to withdraw the special schemes that offer rates as low as 8% for the initial years. With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sending out hawkish signals in its second-quarter review, these banks may have to raise their home loan rates by January to align them with the expected hike in key policy rates.

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Banks may soon stop tempting you with attractive home loans