Page 7 - Affordable Housing

Despite stalled projects, India ranks second in number of affordable homes

According to the survey, China tops the list with 74% of polled Chinese saying they can buy homes

HDFC Capital Advisors looks to raise $1 billion in affordable housing fund

HDFC Capital Advisors guides HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund 1 (H-CARE 1) and H-CARE 2, in which ADIA is an anchor investor

Rs 10,000 crore window to extend funding to stranded housing projects: FM

The fund will be managed by professionals, the finance minister added

More than 4 lakh unsold apartments in 9 cites, estimates brokerage firm

PropTiger says the apartments in the affordable sector should be cleared quickly after govt raised income tax exemption limit.

From price hikes to tax sops: How Union Budget 2019 will impact you

While fuel and gold are set to get more expensive, the Budget proposes tax sops on affordable housing and electric vehicle loans

PNB Housing Finance raises $100 mn from IFC for affordable housing projects

PNB Housing Finance Managing Director Sanjaya Gupta said this is the first ECB disbursement during the current financial year under the RBI automatic route

New deduction on affordable homes benefits loans with longer tenures

Joint owners would not be able to get the additional tax deduction due to caveats

Budget to encourage more launches in affordable housing segment

Budget has proposed an additional deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh for interest paid on loans borrowed up to end-March, 2020 for purchase of an affordable house, valued up to 45 lakh

Budget 2019: Sitharaman's sops to push affordable housing, housing sales

Experts added that the interest exemption upto Rs 3.5 lakh for affordable housing would help boost residential sales

Govt to build 19 mn houses with LPG, electricity & toilets: Budget 2019

The minister further said that by 2022, every single rural family except those who are unwilling to take the connection will have an electricity and a clean cooking facility.

Will leave no stone unturned to fulfil 'housing for all' dream: PM Modi

Modi had launched the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) to provide affordable housing to the urban poor

These 3 cities offer 10 useful affordable housing lessons to the world

Affordable home ownership bears no resemblance to the current market in which the median unit price is well over $700,000

Why Modi govt's plan to build 10 million houses by 2022 is a tall order

The real estate sector has been in the doldrums due to a sluggish demand for premium properties

Sub-prime borrowers fuel affordable housing boom for lenders, HFCs

While the total disbursement of housing loans by PSBs as well as HFCs witnessed a deceleration in 2016-17, there was significant growth for the lower slabs

A checklist to ensure investing in affordable housing becomes rewarding

Keep return expectation limited to 10-11 per cent and ensure that the house you invest in can be rented easily

A year on, infrastructure status eludes affordable housing

Another Mumbai-based developer said policy decisions take time to get implemented in the country

No shortage of land or funds for affordable housing projects: Hardeep Puri

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said India will have 700 km of metro network soon

Piramal, HDFC, IIFL bet big on affordable homes, plan to invest Rs 256 bn

Piramal Finance, on Wednesday, said it would invest $2 billion (Rs 128 billion) in the next three years

Housing for all: Modi govt clears construction of 186,777 affordable houses

The total investment outlay for this project is Rs 111.69 billion with central assistance of Rs 27.97 billion

Six affordable housing plays: Astral Poly, Symphony, Kajaria, and more

Stocks such as Kajaria Ceramics, Astral Poly, and Symphony cater to the masses