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Saturday, November 29, 2025
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Topic: real estate

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.

Modi govt’s Rs 25,000 crore fund can only help 6% of stalled real estate projects

The new fund is an improvement on a real estate corpus announced in September but isn’t enough to cover the entire problem in the sector.

On Camera

No country built rare earths resilience alone. India must take lessons from Japan, Taiwan

Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.

Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

What’s expected from Putin’s India visit in December—Defence Secretary explains

ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.