Posts Tagged ‘Editorial’

Give Discounts to Home Buyers to increase sales

By Murari Chaturvedi
Home construction sector all over India is not in very healthy situation. The home sales are stagnating with the result over Rs.40, 000 crore of debt is on the balance sheets of top listed developers and Rs. 200.000 crores worth of unsold flats in Mumbai and Delhi are cause of worry to the [...]

Interest rate regime will fall flat

By Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi
“The impetus … is to aid the housing market. That’s an area that’s fallen short in this recovery. In most other U.S. postwar recoveries, we’ve seen a pretty sharp snap back in housing. Of course, the reason it hasn’t come back in this recovery is that this recession [...]

Procedure for Re-development Society buildings

By Murari Chaturvedi
Re-development of society buildings in Mumbai is on the move. Space starved Mumbai finds a way to accommodate more people in the same space by reconstructing the old structures by this route.  The previously 4-5 storied buildings can be constructed to double the floors by demolishing the old structures. There [...]

Consumer Protection Act

By Murari Chaturvedi
The high rates in building industry are taking its toll on the purchasers of modest size flats. In Mumbai only 5% are high end purchasers who wed all marble and modern gazettes. Around 50% percent are middle income groups and remaining 45% are lower income group needing one room kitchen units fortunately the [...]

Urban transportation

By Murari Chaturvedi
The ever increasing urbanization in the country needs means for rapid transportation. The fast growing population and migration of rural people to urban areas needs development of proper roads to connect the big and small cities urgently. The ambitious Golden Quadrilateral Project named as National Highway Development Plan Comprising 5,952 km of road [...]

Mass housing programme be taken-up without loosing time

By Murari Chaturvedi
Property market throughout the country is down having no buyers in sight. This is the condition when there is 70% housing shortage in the country. Housing shortage exists in the seven states namely in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The housing shortage is in the low [...]

Indeterminate, Not Builders, Enhancing the rates

By Accommodation Times Bureau
By Dr Sanjay Chaturvedi
Investors and Speculators, Government Taxes and Levies, Land Lords and Brokers, Cost of Funds and Marketing cost, these are the reason behind escalated rates in metros for residential segments in India. Lets us review their roles and ways to avoid them.
Investors and Speculators :
There are various types of [...]

Rapid Urbanisation

By Murari Chaturvedi
Rapid urbanization is the global phenomena, because of growing population all over the world. It is estimates that by 2025 around 2.5 billion Asians live in cities, which will be nearly 54% of the world’s urban population. In India the pace of urbanization is rapid and by 2025, will add 215 million people [...]

Compensation land under new land acquisition bill

By Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi
According to MP Hansraj Ahir the farmers in Maharashtra and most specifically from Chandrapur, Yavatmal and Nagpur districts whose lands have been acquired for coal mining projects are set to get an extra benefit to the tune of Rs 1,650 crore following a recent amendment in Land Acquisition [...]

It is time for Waterproofing

By Accommodation Times Bureau
By Murari Chaturvedi
Monsoon is approaching fast and flurry of activity on the waterproofing front is seen everywhere. There are innumerable waterproofing products available in market. There are number of patented built in membrane treatments besides, coating systems. But most of the built in waterproofing treatments do not give satisfactory result and [...]