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The demand-starved commercial office space market is slowly seeing positive signs, with several large and mid-sized US corporates firming up their plans to outsource their work to India for the first time. Major cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Gurgaon have seen substantial business deals in the last few months and this has led to several new India-based subsidies and back offices which may generate substantial employment opportunities as well.Experts tracking realty developments say that out of the new jobs being created, 80% will be in the IT sector alone, with the corporate sector accounting for the rest. Also, with new vistas being thrown open by US President Obama’s recent healthcare push—which may trigger an outsourcing spree in health and knowledge sectors—both job and office space markets may see major gains. Though The demand-starved commercial office space market is slowly seeing positive signs, with several large and mid-sized US corporates firming up their plans to outsource their work to India for the first time. Major cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Gurgaon have seen substantial business deals in the last few months and this has led to several new India-based subsidies and back offices which may generate substantial employment opportunities as well.Experts tracking realty developments say that out of the new jobs being created, 80% will be in the IT sector alone, with the corporate sector accounting for the rest. Also, with new vistas being thrown open by US President Obama’s recent healthcare push—which may trigger an outsourcing spree in health and knowledge sectors—both job and office space markets may see major gains. Though the office space market has not been able to bring prevalent vacancies under control, there is scope for growth for realty, according to experts.

In an interaction with the media, Collin Dyer, president and CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc, says India presents a huge opportunity in terms of attracting jobs outsourced by US firms. India has graduated from being a back office hub for Western companies to housing knowledge process outsourcing centres and research and development wings of multi-national firms. “Asia, which includes robust nations like India, has shown signs of an economic revival, and these are more evident that those seen in economies like the European Union, because of strong banking and financial systems present here”.According to Jonse Lang’s India Office Map 2010 findings, the demand for office space is gradually improving with opportunistic tenants taking up space at lower rentals. The markets in Mumbai and Bangalore are leading the property cycle and are likely to recover the earliest among office-space markets. Also, the markets of NCR-Delhi, Chennai and Pune are expected to stabilise sooner that those of Hyderabad ......http://www.maaproperties.com/Pages/ModuleContent.aspx?Module=Articles

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Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said the government is looking at the possibilities of inducting a strategic buyer for Maytas Properties, the company promoted by the kins of disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju "For all practical reasoning, obviously that (strategic sale) is something that would work out... but they (board members) have to decide," Khurshid said when asked whether efforts were on to find a strategic buyer for the troubled company.

"Ved Jain (Chairman of Maytas Properties) is working out all permutation and combinations, and we are trying to give him all help required... We have very limited option since we have started the process we want to bring it to a satisfactory end," the Minister said. Following the admission of accounting fraud in Satyam Computer Services by Raju last year, the government appointed its own nominees on the twin companies -- Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties -- promoted by Raju's sons.

Ved Jain, the then President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, was appointed Chairman of the company in March 2009 and was give the task to rehabilitate Maytas Properties, a company with interest in real estate in and around Hyderabad. Several Non-Resident Indians who booked flats in projects promoted by Maytas Properties have been asking the government to expedite rehabilitation of the company. The company had raised Rs 650 crore from customers for the Rs 1,100-crore Hill County project near Hyderabad. Maytas Properties reportedly has a land bank of about 6,000 acres. Maytas Properties and Maytas Infra were the two companies which Satyam had tried to purchase in December 2008 but the deal was aborted following objections by shareholders.http://www.maaproperties.com/Pages/ModuleContent.aspx?Module=News&nid=1122

If you are planning to buy a house, grab it before July, as realty prices are set to increase later. The service tax of 3.3%, announced in the Budget, will be effective on your home from July as the amendments to the Finance Bill will be put into effect in June. Moreover, banks have decided to increase interest rates in the range of 0.25-0.5 percentage points on home loans, which could further be hiked in the forthcoming credit policy. Companies including realty majors like DLF, under the aegis of Delhi-based real estate body National Real Estate Development Council (Naredco), will soon approach the FM for a rollback of service tax.

The property prices are expected to go up with real estate companies passing on the additional burden to buyers. Effectively, someone buying a house property in Delhi will have to pay a service tax of 3.3% on the price of the accommodation and also a stamp duty of 8% as a sale of immovable property. The 3.3% tax will not include the amount to be paid towards special charges like garden facing or community hall facility as these charges will be taxed at 10% of the total charges. However, Sanjay Chandra, MD of country’s second-largest realty firm Unitech says an increase in interest rates is unlikely to affect the demand as the increase is only in trigger rates and hence there is no change in effective interest rates.“The service tax will have some marginal impact, but the market will absorb that for two reasons. One, the change in personal tax slabs will leave more disposable income in the hands of consumer and second, the better prevailing economic conditions are likely to result in at least 10% increase in the salaries of the working class for the next financial year. These two facts will more than offset the marginal impact of service tax, which is expected to be 2% to 3%,” he said.

When contacted, Naredco president and realty company Omaxe’s group chairman Rohtas Goel said, “We will hold a meeting of the association to discuss the Budget proposals, particularly levying of the service tax on housing, which will have a negative impact on the realty sector.” However, finance ministry officials have said they won’t entertain any request for change in the Budget proposal. Central Board of Excise and Customs member YG Parandhe said, “We are not taking up the issue as it stands now” when asked if there is a possibility to relook at the proposal.

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