As we navigate our way around new normals and seek certainty in the future, there’s one thing that’s surer than anything - no matter where we are, our greatest comfort lies in keeping our ...

An impending change in the mode of stamp duty collection on transaction of shares from July 1 may prod some of the city-based brokers to consider relocating part of their business to the Gift City in ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown had a telling effect on the real estate sector during the first three months of the fiscal with launches plummeting to a tenth of last year. Only 413...

PNB has no plans to sell its non-core assets, including subsidiaries, in the current financial year, managing director of the bank S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao said. However, the bank intends to sell some ...

The preference among buyers to go for completed projects, lack of investor interest and placid prices of property are forcing realtors to load more debt on their books, pushing many of them into bankr...

The group of ministers appointed by the GST Council has recommended two GST slabs for under-construction houses — 5 per cent for normal flats and houses and a reduced rate of 3 per cent for “affor...

Calcutta’s residential market appears to be still suffering from the impact of demonetisation, according to a study by real estate consultancy JLL.Sales penetration — which is the velocity of tran...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdomAristotleVery little importance is given to the art of introspection in popular financial advice. Most advisory is focused on blindly chasing returns. Ho...

Mid-sized private sector lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) is merging with Indiabulls Housing Finance (IBH), a move that will give the latter yet another shot to become a bank.The boards of both the ent...

The ongoing economic slowdown has cost more than 3 lakh jobs in the real estate sector, and the industry fears bigger layoffs, unless the government provides them stimulus. “The economy and the rea...