Housing 2016

Budget 2016: Proposals should assuage realty sector’s pain points

To strengthen the realty market, while a number of programmes have been already earmarked for the sector such as, Housing for all by 2022, Smart cities and REITS, not much headway has been made regarding these.

Budget 2016: Incentivise affordable housing; building 6 cr houses is a Gargantuan task

An acute shortage of affordable urban homes looms large in the face of Indian realty as homes are exorbitantly priced for the common man.

Budget 2016: Why Jaitley should come with a smarter social sector package

Rural roads can actually be linked with the agricultural sector as the last mile connectivity of farmers to the mandi is hindered by the absence of such roads

Budget 2016: Realtors seek loan restructuring; tax sops in upcoming Budget

Faced with acute slowdown in demand and delay in delivery of projects, realtors' apex body Naredco today demanded tax sops for affordable homes and restructuring of bank loans.

Budget 2016: Exempt REITs from DDT, stamp duty, says CBRE

Real Estate Investment Trusts should be exempted from the dividend distribution tax and stamp duties in the upcoming Union Budget so as to make them attractive to domestic and foreign investors, says property consultant CBRE.

Budget 2016: Provide incentives to home-buyers to boost real estate

The realty sector is just emerging from a prolonged and painful slowdown, and is looking for all and any signs of light at the end of the tunnel. This fact makes Union Budget 2016 all the more critical, and the real estate industry has many expectations from it.

Budget 2016: Raise personal IT exemption limit to Rs 4 lakh, says Assocham

Assocham has asked the government to increase the personal income tax exemption limit in budget to Rs 4 lakh from Rs 2.5 lakh for all individual taxpayers.