Not keen on high-rise buildings, says Dikshit - The Times of India : NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit on Tuesday expressed reservations over allowing high-rise buildings in the capital, saying that availability of power and water should be factored in before going ahead with such plans. Responding to a question on Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath's recent comment that the capital should grow vertically, Dikshit said that before constructing taller buildings, power and water availability must be taken into account. "It needs to be seen how the review of the Master Plan of Delhi shapes up. "Let us see how it comes along. Plans will be made and then opinions will be sought over it," she said. "Personally I am not very keen on high-rises because Delhi has a very great sense of space," Dikshit told reporters on the sidelines of a workshop organised by the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB). The workshop on strategies for d...

Realty rates burning pockets, pushing living costs skywards - The Times of India : MUMBAI: Any Mumbaikar who has ever bought or rented an apartment, or filled petrol in a car, or even bought groceries at a local store knows this sobering fact: we live in an expensive city. Respondents to The Times Of India-IMRB Quality Of Life Survey in eight mega-cities felt the same way as they rated cost of living in Mumbai as the highest among the eight urban agglomerates. In the survey, Mumbai scored an abysmal 2 on the cost of living scale, way below cities such as Hyderabad and Ahmedabad that achieved an equal rating of 2.8 and Pune that got a grade of 2.7. Even Bangalore (2.3) and Delhi (2.2) fared better than the financial capital. Navi Mumbai resident and mother of two Anju Divekar says life is getting increasingly tough here as inflation spirals upward. "The price of everything is rising, though our salaries remain the same. If it is tough for financially secure families like ours to ba...

Highrise living in india: A counterpoint - Indian Real Estate Forum - www.indianrealestateforum.com : Delhi-NCR is gearing up for skyscrapers, but how safe is highrise living? SANJEEV SINHA writes With a handful of builders like Ireo, Raheja and Supertech proposing high-end skyscrapers, the trend of vertical development now seems to be catching up in Delhi NCR. After all, when global cities like New York, Dubai and Hong Kong can do it and back home Mumbai can be seen doing it, why can't the National Capital Region too take to high living - particularly, in view of all the factors and circumstances, ranging from relaxed norms to consumer preference to the shortage of land and rising land prices, tilting in its favour? However, before we get carried away by the thought of living on top of the world, we will do well to keep certain facts and ground realities in mind. For instance, when our builders in most cases are unable to construct eve...

Is high-rise living for you? - Times Of India : Is high-rise living for you? Rakesh Rai, TNN Mar 28, 2011, 05.40am IST When you lie flat on your back, the only way to look is up. So is the case with builders it seems. At a time when demand for property is tepid and cash is hard to come by, developers are luring buyers with high-rise apartments. City after city has seen the launch of high-rise residential projects in the past year. Many have more than 30 floors, with some going up to 100 floors. The Lodha Group is building the tallest residential tower in the world (117 storeys) in Mumbai, while Supertech is selling the 'tallest tower in North India' with 60 floors. Urbana is showing how 'Kolkata will look different' from the 45th floor. According to experts, as cities gear up to cope with the increasing population, the tall building may well become the new normal, not by choice, but by default. "Till some years ago, there were hardly any residential buil...

A GPA sale still gets you a sale deed in Delhi : The Supreme Court verdict on general power of attorney (GPA) on October 11, 2011 was supposed to have made life tougher for home buyers and sellers. It was assumed that buyers would ¬ if they bought the property on GPAs ¬ neither get the title of the property nor be able to sell it. However, that's not the case. There is still a lot of confusion over the apex court's verdict. Sale deeds are still being given for GPAbased property transactions. “According to the SC verdict, any form of GPA can't be a valid document to get a sale deed. But, the registrar's offices at various places in Delhi say just the opposite -that you can get a sale deed by paying a requisite amount of money any time in the future. And this is what we are telling buyers and sellers who are coming to us for legal counseling,“ says Ashwin Kumar Sharma, a lawyer at the registrar office, Ansari Road. Hundreds of people at various registrar offices in Delhi ...

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