Housing finance
Cabinet approves bill to regulate real estate business
10 Dec 2015
Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015 aims at providing a uniform regulatory environment, so as to ensure speedy adjudication of disputes and orderly growth of the real estate sector
ICICI Bank unveils first guarantee-backed home loan product
26 Aug 2015
The new scheme has been launched in association with the India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation
Five charts that demystify the Chinese housing market
25 Aug 2015
There are reasons to worry about the Chinese housing market, but they may not be the reasons you expect, say researchers at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Peking University who have built housing-price indices covering 120 major Chinese cities from 2003 to 2013 and analysed detailed information on mortgage borrowers
Home, auto loans will come down further, says FM
13 Jun 2015
RBI eases valuation norms for home loans of up to Rs10 lakh
07 Mar 2015
RBI has directed banks to add stamp duty, registration and other documentation charges to the cost of the house / dwelling unit for the purpose of calculating loan-to-value ratio
Housing industry seeks infra status
25 Feb 2015
India permits 100% FDI in construction sector
29 Oct 2014
FDI will not, however, be permitted in an entity which is engaged or proposes to engage in real estate business, construction of farm houses and trading in transferable development rights
Modi to revamp rural housing scheme Indira Awaas Yojana
11 Aug 2014
The NDA government is expected to double allocation per house to Rs1.5 lakh and raise the unit size to at least 30 sq mts with toilet and bathing space as its integral part, reports say
Bank of England to cap mortgages from October
28 Jun 2014
Taking a chance with better bankruptcy protection
24 Jun 2014
New research finds increased personal bankruptcy protection pre-2005 led to increase in household debt, but without measurable increase in average defaults. By MIT's Felipe Severino, from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Venkaiah Naidu promises cheaper home loans
29 May 2014
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