The government’s move to allow primary or first sale of housing units costing up to Rs 2 crore at a price 20 per cent below the stamp duty circle rate would enable real estate developers to liquidate their unsold inventory and also benefit homebuyers, the finance ministry said on Friday. The Aatmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package … Read more
The popular momentum trade that involves buying market winners and selling losers suffered its largest one-day outflow in over three decades last week Monday. This dramatic shift marked a departure from stocks geared towards working from home, and reflected investors’ excitement about an effective vaccine. But Peter Tchir, the head of macro strategy at Academy … Read more
Paramount Realty USA (PRUSA), New York’s leading real estate auction house, announced rare auctions for two penthouses in exclusive, amenity-rich new-development buildings on opposite coasts: one in Miami-Dade County, FL and the other in Los Angeles, CA. Miami-Dade County The first is a furnished 4-bedroom, 4,446 sq. ft. duplex penthouse with private, rooftop pool at … Read more
Asian Paints acquired a modular kitchen business in 2013, then a bathroom fittings business in the next year. With Covid striking, the company forayed into hand and surface sanitisers in May and has now announced the launch of floor and toilet cleaners. Is India’s largest decorative paints company innovating through its foray into growth-oriented consumer … Read more
The deal is in the form of structured debt. The investments were made from HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund (Hcare fund 1 & 2) which has a corpus of $ 1.1 billion. Abu Dhabi sovereign fund ADIA is a key investor in the fund. In the first investment by any private equity fund manager … Read more
Even as COVID-related layoffs and salary cuts ensued across sectors, the Sahara Group on Monday said it has given pay hikes and promotions to its employees. Further, it said that there will be no layoffs of workers from any of its business vertical due to the coronavirus situation. The Sahara Group is also planning to … Read more
Job losses in gulf countries after the Covid-19 spread, falling oil prices, and the security of owning a house in one’s native country are driving the trend, say many developers Business Standard spoke to. From the UAE alone, some 150,000 Indians registered to repatriated, of which 25 per cent cited job losses as a reason … Read more
Mumbai/New Delhi: An interim order by the Delhi high court restraining coercive action against Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd for its inability to repay bondholders has raised fears among mutual funds that more debtors could take the same course. The Indiabulls counsel cited the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 27 March circular on loan moratorium and … Read more
