Shalini Nair

The Centre on Monday approved three more Special Economic Zones totalling 157 hectares for Maharashtra.

Developers in the city who have been objecting to the stringent environmental norms for their projects have reason to cheer.

The Central Government’s economic stimulus packages have laid special emphasis on the housing sector.

At a time when land deals have come down to almost nil,the country’s largest private sector power utility,Tata Power,has taken a prime plot of land at the Bandra Kurla Complex on lease at Rs 86.11 crore.

The labyrinth of over 60-year-old buildings at Gola street in Fort has nothing to differentiate one from the other except for the narrow strips of soggy house gullies separating them.

The National Textile Corporation has drawn up a list of nine mills on a total of about 90 acres in the heart of the city which the government-run company plans to put on the block soon.

The resurrection of the famed Hotel Sea Rock,15 years after it closed,has hit a roadblock again.

It’s a three-letter word that has been the nightmare of urban planners and the delight of builders. More so as many recent state government policies seemed to revolve around raising FSI,a move some critics brand as arbitrary and link it to elections due later this year.

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For 25 years now,Vivek Vanjare’s father,an office assistant in a private Mumbai firm,doggedly tried his luck each time the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority came out with a housing scheme in the financial capital.

With the second home market for scenic luxury villas and weekend getaway bungalows finding no takers in slowdown times,developers are looking at alternative means.

Close on the heels of increasing manifold the buildable area for star hotels in Mumbai,the state government has decided to extend the largesse to hotels in Navi Mumbai also.

Three decades after they went their separate ways,the class of ‘79 at the IT-BHU has reunited for a purpose.

Three decades after they went their separate ways,the class of ’79 of IT-BHU (Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University) had a reunion of a different sort.

The state government has issued notices to some former ministers who have not vacated their ministerial bungalows despite being dropped from the Cabinet more than a month ago.

“Train mein bahut dhakka bukki hota hai. Par ab hum khush hai,” says 13-year-old Pradeep Tangade,a resident of St Catherine of Siena Orphanage at Bandra.

It makes sense to continue waiting and watching before putting your money into that new flat,brokers and real estate consultants advise.

In 2003,when his neighbour booked a new flat,Tejas Dalal planned to buy his 1one room-kitchen in Prabhadevi at Rs 5,800 per sq ft.

The state government has stepped in to broker peace between unrelenting builders and anxious buyers,planning a series of measures to make houses affordable.

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