New cluster development policy soon, says Sachin Ahir

By Accommodation Times News ServicesInaugurating 21st Property and Housing Finance Exhibition, minister for state of housing, Sachin Ahire said that buyers and builders both must control their greed. Citing live example he said a builders enhanced property ...

Authority loses credibility as it fails to hand over houses on time. The number of people applying for houses in the state's housing projects is on the decline. This year, 29,000 people have applied for a total of 1,200 homes up for grabs under the ...

Somewhere in there lurks this undefinable common man. In the context of housing, where the sheer unaffordability as well as unavailability of adequate stock keeps Mumbai in a different category of cities, he could be just about anybody. It is a ...

Aslamkhan Bhikankha sold his wife’s jewellery and used all his savings to buy a flat in a Mumbai suburb which he now fears will soon be razed, leaving his family homeless. The flat is in one of numerous illegal buildings in Mumbra that house ...

Move will curb unofficial renting of houses and help govt increase revenue. The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) has decided to allow the owners of vacant Mhada houses to officially rent them out. In our survey, it was ...

With a view to curtail trading of the letter of intent (LoI) secured by builders in slum schemes, the state government is proposing a mechanism in which the credentials of a builder applying for a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) project will be ...

Yesterday, this paper ran a front page story on how the MHADA was pegging flat prices in Powai on the basis of built-up area, which violated the state government's cardinal rule of basing prices on carpet area ...

If the eye-popping prices quoted by MHADA recently for its flat made you reel and put your home-owning plans on the backburner, we can shed some perspective. Going by the state-run housing authority's own admission, rates for its recently announced ...

By Accommodation Times News Service The government has decided to conduct a scientific audit of all cessed and dilapidated buildings in the city and appoint consultants for technical study of the structures before the monsoon. The movies seen as ...