GST to Help Developers Shift Focus to Affordable Housing

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is likely to make real estate developers shift focus to high volume, low to medium housing. Affordable housing costs could fall and those for the premium segment could rise, says a white paper titled Decoding GST and Real Estate Regulation by RICS, , a self-regulatory professional body

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Union urban development ministry finalises new realty rules under the latest law passed by the Parliament

There is good news for homebuyers in Delhi. The Union urban development (UD) ministry on Wednesday finalised the rules to make the landmark Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act operational in the national capital. The law will not only protect new homebuyers from unscrupulous developers but safeguard the interest of allottees of the ongoing projects. The Parliament had cleared the realty law in March and states and union territories were given six months to notify the rules. While for Delhi, the UD ministry will notify the rules, the housing and…

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