India's easing of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms for the real estate sector, the intent to found and build at least a 100 Greenfield smart-cities, and related moves by the current NDA... Read more

With a majority government in place at the centre that is not fettered by coalition politics and its attendant woes, the BJP has taken several positive steps that are seen by industry as mov... Read more

Less than ten years ago, the concept of luxury homes was firmly tied to a city's most expensive inner locations. ‘Pin code value’ was the watchword, and developers focused on the luxury segm... Read more

Given the increasing scarcity of available land in our cities, it is becoming all the more difficult to look at the creation of affordable urban housing without first factoring in slums and... Read more

One significant pointer to India's remarkable development and growth is its rapid urbanisation. Today one-third of India's population lives in urban areas and by 2030, our urban population i... Read more

During the heydays of the British Raj, the colonial establishment used to abandon the searing hot plains in May and make a ritual beeline for the cooler hills to weather over the Indian summ... Read more

We had recently started this Q&A column on all matters pertaining to the purchase and sale of real estate in India, the extant laws that govern this, and numerous other related matters. Whil... Read more

The Union Budget 2014-15 was presented in parliament under economic circumstances requiring tax revenues to keep pace with targets. Considering the state of government finances and the curre... Read more

Real estate is not just about sales, it's more a business of trust that involves high value transactions with property consumers investing their life-long earnings to buy their dream home. A... Read more