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New guidelines for life insurace products soon

Business Standard

The finance ministry has asked government banks to reduce the fixed deposit (FD) rate offered to senior citizens to reduce cost of funds. At present, most public sector banks offer 50 basis points more to senior citizens than what they offer to others. Some private sector banks, like ICICI Bank, offer 75 basis points more to seniors.

FinMin: Cut FD rates for senior citizens

LIC Housing and Finance Ltd, has initiated a drive for increasing its presence in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal. In last fiscal, 2004-05, LIC HFL, against the sanction of housing loan of Rs 103 crore,

LIC to increase housing finance presence in UP

With the cost of land in Rajarhat gradually becoming prohibitively expensive, the state government is looking at balancing the land allocation between industrial and housing projects, Amit Kiran Deb,

Bengal mulls subsidy for industrial plots

Real estate developer, the Merlin Group, announced its new project, "Merlin Emerald", positioned as a social housing project, with flats priced at Rs 4.5 lakh and above.


Merlin lowers apartment cost bar in Kolkata

Parsvnath Developers is looking to expand its operations to Mumbai, Pune and Nashik at an investment of Rs 500 crore, as part of its plan to expand its operations across eight states of the country.

Parsvnath eyes state real estate market

If business opportunities are like buses with another one always coming, the local real estate developers in the city cannot see any 'next one' for sure.


Property developers seek level playing field

The Sureka group has launched "Sunrise Point" its project in collaboration with the West Bengal Housing Development Board.


Sureka floats housing project

The Kolkata real estate market is set to expand to 50 million square feet of formatted housing by 2010, according to Rahul Todi, managing director of Bengal Shrachi Housing Development Limited.


Kolkata housing demand at 50 mn sq ft

The Pune realty market has been abuzz with activity recently with majors DLF and the Prestige group inking deals for 60 and 70 acres plots, respectively, at the upcoming Injewadi industrial area,

Boom time for Pune office realty

Bangalore in the first half of this year has witnessed commercial space absorption of 4.7 million sqft and supply for the whole year is pegged at 14 million sqft.


Bangalore office space supply at 14m sq ft

McDonalds restaurants in Murshidabad, Titan stores in Titagarh and Shoppers Stop outlets in Shyamnagar might just become a reality. 


CII meet brings global retail guru to Kolkata

With the real estate sector booming in the north, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has proposed a roadmap to liberate the investment potential of the sector in

Assocham roadmap for real estate

Finally, the revised draft Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for Bangalore Metropolitan Area (BMA) is out. The new draft plan is for the next 10 years i.e. up to 2015.


City development in 5 zones

Aiming at taking Delhiites closer to nature, the proposed Bhalswa lake complex of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) would have facilities such as walkways, fishing wharf, boating, water sports as

DDA to green Bhalswa lake complex

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The land cost in real estate project development is the lowest in the city at 10 per cent of the total project cost while in other cities like Mumbai it is as high as 50 per cent, according to housing

Hidco not to lower prices

The escalation in real estate prices across the country has rubbed off on Indore as well. Property rates in the city have more than doubled in a year.


Real estate prices soar in Indore

Riding on the back of the various infrastructure development projects that are slated to come up around the Panvel-Uran belt land prices in the area are soaring.


Realty rates soar in Panvel-Uran belt

Mysore residential real estate is booming. Prices in a few residential localities have trebled in the last one year. Land prices which were hovering around Rs 250 per sqft three to four months ago,

City software money rocking Mysore real estate

In an effort to complement the mega city status, buildings in the city are in for a competition. The Gujarat Institute of Housing and Real Estate Developers (Gihed) is organising country's first best

Award for best building constituted

Delhi-based real estate major Ansal Properties Group has entered into an agreement with Malaysian facilities management company Faber Group Berhad to tap the healthcare management segment.


Ansals, Faber form waste mgmt JV

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