Long before anyone worried about drones crashing through the front window, winemaker Paul Masson built a chateau in the hills above Saratoga. Now it’s for sale. You can have it for $7 million — not bad in the Silicon Valley real estate market, where paying upwards of $5 million for ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
WITH complaints from flat buyers against unfair practices by real estate firms piling up from across the state, a proposal to appoint multiple housing regulators is now under consideration, sources said. At last count, about 37,000 such cases were pending in the consumer redressal forum, official data shows. Mumbai, the ... Read More »
Brigade Group has announced the launch of its latest initiative – Brigade Real Estate Accelerator Program (REAP). A brainchild of Nirupa Shankar, Director, Brigade Hospitality, it is an organised approach to help build sustainable and scalable businesses in sectors relevant to real estate. According to a release from the Brigade ... Read More »
The implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations this year is going to bring cheer to various segments and one of the biggest beneficiaries is expected to be real estate. About Rs.1 lakh crore of money is being released as part of the hike in salaries and an additional amount ... Read More »
The latest version is a redrawn plan after the critical citizen feedback received on the earlier draft plan last year. Though in conservative measure, and treading cautiously after the criticism of the last version, the plan has laid out several measures to increase the development potential of Mumbai. The Revised ... Read More »
We hear so frequently about the players behind Manhattan’s billion-dollar real estate projects and how foreign investors are pouring a global vault’s worth of currency into New York City property, often shielded by LLCs. It’s illuminating to get a closer look at the city’s larger real estate landscape–one that has changed ... Read More »
In early 2004, home loan rates sank to a record low of under 7.5 per cent, thanks to the liberalisation of the Indian economy. Real estate investment was then an option only for the rich, but the low borrowing rates encouraged people from all income groups to step forward, which ... Read More »
Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE: IRET) (NYSE: IRETPR) (NYSE: IRET PRB) has scheduled a conference call for Friday, September 9, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s first quarter 2017 financial and operating results. IRET’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal first quarter ended July ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
A larger-than-expected employment gain in July could boost the recovery in prices for luxury U.S. homes. Stock market volatility caused a drop in luxury values in the first quarter of this year, but prices recovered slightly in the second quarter, rising 0.8 percent annually, according to Redfin, a real estate ... Read More »
Homebuilder stocks gained Monday as builders showed more confidence in the market for new homes in August. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) rose more than 1 percent at its high, led by shares of Toll Brothers, CalAtlantic and Taylor Morrison, which all gained about 2 percent. The National Association ... Read More »
