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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: real estate

Why Lucknow, Jaipur don’t see communal riots but Delhi and Ahmedabad do

If you live in segregated neighbourhoods, it is easy to demonise the 'other’ — which often happens to Muslims in India.

Why home, auto loans will become cheaper even though RBI hasn’t cut interest rates

RBI has relaxed regulatory requirements for banks that is likely to ensure cheaper retail loans for borrowers.

From Wish Town to lost hope, how India’s ‘Achche Din’ dreams lie shattered

Wish Town’s failure tells the story of an economy in distress, a banking system in pain & consumers too worried about job cuts & rising costs to spend.

SBI comes to the aid of India’s distressed real estate developers

SBI will finance both builders & homebuyers, charging developers a premium & offering latter a refund if their apartments are left unfinished.

Peninsula Land blames overdue rent from Modi govt for missing Rs 2.35 crore debt payment

The property developer said it couldn’t pay State Bank of India on time because tax departments, which had leased office space from Peninsula, were delaying rent payments,

Mumbai 2019 home sales jump to highest in 4 years, thanks to affordable apartments

Sales in Mumbai rose 22% in 2019 even though a persistent credit crunch & economic slowdown curtailed recovery in India’s housing sales across top 7 cities.

Nobody is buying China’s affordable housing in Beijing

Beijing introduced the plan in 2016, but the array of cheap quality condominiums that are far from everywhere saw interest die out pretty quick.

Singapore’s property glut could take years to clear

The glut has prompted developers to call for property curbs to be eased, including lowering the 20% stamp duty for foreign buyers.

Ayodhya’s post verdict march, Sitharaman’s measly 25,000 crore fund & Rahul’s SPG woes

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Govt is late with real estate package. Fixing economy sector-by-sector unlikely to help

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?