Overseas Property Investment

The most recent show property investment news from a variety of international property news sources.

Economic uncertainty combined with mounting sovereign and corporate debt have diminished investor appetite lately, but the mood overall in the Asian property market is optimistic. See the following article from Property Wire for more on this. The Asian real estate investment market showed signs…

Economic uncertainty combined with mounting sovereign and corporate debt have diminished investor appetite lately, but the mood overall in the Asian property market is optimistic. See the following article from Property Wire for more on this. The Asian real estate investment market showed signs…

BANGALORE: India’s Rs 4.8 lakh-crore home loan market is expected to see increased competition over the next few months thanks to a constant trickle of non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) looking to get a toe-hold into a market which has been witnessing a compounded annual growth rate of 15% during the last five years. While Karur-based [...]

MUMBAI: Real estate firm Lodha Developers has raised Rs 500 crore by selling a 10% stake in a project to develop a 117-storey residential tower in Mumbai to HDFC Venture Funds. “The deal shows the investor’s appetite for quality real estate projects in India,” said Abhisheck Lodha, the managing director of Lodha Developers. HDFC Venture [...]

Delhi NCR Prospects of the commercial real estate have started looking up along with the residential real estate market, as the economy gathers steam — it has shown a spectacular recovery from the downturn, when the GDP dipped to 6.7% in 2008-09. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the GDP is expected [...]

A combined buyers’ association has never really taken off in India. In real estate the government sponsored cooperative housing concept did proliferate during the socialist years but it has since died down. In the US, buyers get together on the Internet and negotiate with manufacturers of televisions, music systems and other goods to buy nearly [...]

Following a downturn in defaults, annual US foreclosure filings have fallen for the past two months, however, monthly levels still haven’t registered below 300,000 in nearly a year and a half. On a monthly basis, the foreclosure trend still hasn’t reversed, although, individual markets are improving…

Mumbai Unscrupulous builders in the city have hit upon a new con to mint big money. These developers, allegedly with the connivance of the BMC’s building proposals department, get plans sanctioned for car parking decks on each floor and then sell off the space as part of your apartment. The practice, which has been in [...]

Since 2007, at least 50 agreements have been signed between GIFT and several firms, but all of them have lapsed Gujarat’s bid to set up a global financial hub similar to Shanghai, Tokyo and London, projected as a dream project of chief minister Narendra Modi, continues to be wrapped in uncertainty. The `73,000 crore Gujarat [...]

Rising house prices show that residential properties have become the “hottest” pick for investors who are flushed with cash and believe investing in a tangible asset is a good investment choice. Although it may seem that the property market is on a “wholesale revaluation exercise” with prices climbing across-the-board, it is actually not so. A [...]