An award-winning tradesperson has announced plans to leave the UK for Switzerland, warning that rising employment taxes, shrinking apprenticeship support and mounting red tape are driving skilled workers and small business owners overseas.Martin Daly , founder of Motherwell-based MD Builders and recently crowned Screwfix Top Tradesperson for 2025, said changes introduced in Labour’s first Budget […]
The Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (KRERA) has pulled up a Bengaluru-based developer for failing to issue the khata to a homebuyer despite handing over possession of the apartment. The regulator has directed the builder to ‘transfer and facilitate’ the khata in the buyer’s name within 30 days of the order date. Karnataka RERA has […]
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld an arbitral award directing a city-based developer to regularise illegal alterations in a redeveloped residential building in Andheri West and obtain an occupancy certificate (OC) from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), failing which it must pay ₹128.98 crore to the housing society to enable it to demolish […]
Rajiv Mehta, an NRI living abroad, owns a flat in India that he plans to sell in the future. The apartment was bought in an unfinished condition, requiring additional payments to the builder over time to complete the unit. A few years later, Mehta also incurred renovation expenses to make the flat fully liveable. Income […]
Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan has launched the much-hyped commercial tower in Dubai named after him at a glitzy event, which had over 6,500 people attending. Dubai-based Indian real estate tycoon Rizwan Sajan said the 55-tower project on Sheikh Zayed Road, named Shahrukhz, has already sold out for over ₹5000 crore on the back of […]
MUMBAI: The Kasturba Marg Police on Wednesday arrested a father–son builder duo accused of duping several homebuyers of crores of rupees by luring them into purchasing flats and plots that were never delivered. Father-son builder duo arrested after allegedly duping homebuyers of crores of rupees The accused, Ashok Jethwa, 55, and his son Mihir Jethwa, […]
Three years after a cave in at Chintels Paradiso project in sector 109, the Haryana real estate regulatory authority (HRERA), Gurugram, on Wednesday said it had directed Chintels India Ltd to refund ₹1.70 crore, with an annual interest of 10.85%, to a flat owner who had filed a complaint against the developer. The order has […]
Residents of Antriksh Golf View 2 in Sector 78, Noida, began a protest against the builder, Colorful Estates Private Limited, on Saturday, alleging poor maintenance and mismanagement of the housing society for the past six years. Residents protesting on Saturday. (Sunil Ghosh/HT) The society, occupied since 2017, comprises over 1,000 flats and 32 commercial stores, […]