At the ongoing World Economic Forum-India Economic Summit, Arun Nanda, executive director (infrastructure development sector) of Mahindra and Mahindra, said, "Affordable housing market has a huge demand with consumers just sitting on the fence and waiting to get a clearer picture of the ongoing financial crisis.” 

The Mahindra group has a wholly-owned subsidiary, Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd, operating in the infrastructure development segment. 

New York  - The crisis in the US real estate market is having an ever starker impact on Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement chain.

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Demolition was off late seen as the only consequence of illegal construction, but the cabinet sub-committee on Sakrama, for the regularization of unauthorized constructions has opted for a more viable option. It has favored relaxing the upper limit of violation, currently 50% and reducing the penalty for irregularization substantially.

There may be more than one lakh buildings in Bangalore which have violated the building rules beyond 50 per cent and it will not be possible to demolish all of them. Furthermore, as most of these structures belong to poor and lower middle class people there was a feeling that penalty is very high, hence, a proposal for a substantial reduction in penalty for smaller sites.

Delhi-based realty firm Unitech Ltd has registered net profit of Rs 415.56 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, 2008 as compared with Rs 138.09 crore reported during the same quarter in 2007.

The total income for the quarter has also surged to Rs 906.33 crore from Rs 572.60 crore in the year-ago period. However, company's consolidated net profit declined by 12.48 per cent to Rs 358.92 crore for the July-September quarter.

The company had a net profit of Rs 410.12 crore in the same quarter last fiscal. Recently,

Nicosia, Oct 29 : Real Estate Developer Limitless, part of the Dubai World Conglomerate, has invited construction firms to submit bids for the second phase of earthworks on the 11 billion dollars Arabian Canal project. 

The contract involves the excavation of about 300 million cubic meters of earth along an 8.5 kilometre stretch of the canal’s route.

The 75 km-long Arabian Canal waterway, which will be up to 150 metres wide and six meters deep, will start near the Dubai Marina area, flowing inland around the planned Jebel Ali International Airport and will enter the sea once again at the outer end of the Palm Jebel Ali.