Data showed that Western India (Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Pune) accounted for 55 percent of the total homes delivered in FY25, a rise from 53 percent in FY24 while Southern India (Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad) accounted for a 30 percent share, a rise from 28 percent in FY24.
According to data by PropEquity, as of August 2024, as many as 1,981 real estate projects comprising 5.08 lakh units across 42 cities are stalled. This includes 1,636 projects totalling 4,31,946 units in 14 tier I cities and 345 projects totalling 76,256 units in 28 tier II cities.
Sitharaman said that under SWAMIH Fund scheme 50,000 dwelling units in stressed housing projects have been completed and keys handed over to homebuyers and another 40,000 units will be completed in 2025 further helping middle class families who are paying EMIs on loan taken for apartment and also paying rent for current dwelling units.
The SWAMIH Fund backed by the government aims to deliver 20,000 more homes by the year-end in Tier 1 and 2 cities. So far, the fund has given preliminary approval to about 1.1 lakh units and final approval to 83,000 homes
The fund set up under the Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing is India's largest social impact fund, according to a statement, which said the government recently infused Rs 5,000 crore.
This was needed as without there being clarity over unclaimed inventory, the flats could not be sold to raise funds for completion of unfinished units. This will also help the court receiver in implementing swapping of units.
SWAMIH Fund has already completed more than 4,000 homes in the last 12 months. It is currently on track to complete at least 10,000 homes every year in the next three to four years, the finance ministry tweeted.
It has received a soft commitment to increase the size of the Fund to about Rs 15,000 crore, a senior SBICAP official said at the FICCI Summit on real estate
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SWAMIH Fund has completed more than 1,500 homes in the last six months. It is currently on track to complete at least 10,000 homes every year in the next three to four years, the finance ministry tweeted
The fund achieved it’s twin targets – of completing the project and redeeming its investment successfully, the finance ministry tweeted
SBICAP Ventures, the manager for the government's Rs 25,000 crore stressed-asset fund, plans to complete 10,000 homes by the end of the financial year.
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Of the 26 housing projects, nine are located in Mumbai, seven in Delhi-NCR and the rest are spread across other Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities
Rivali Park Wintergreens is the first investment by the Swamih Fund and is also the first project to get completed. It is a large project spread over 7 acres consisting of 708 units of various configurations
The project was sanctioned Rs 180 crores by the fund as the last mile funding for completion. CCI Projects hopes to realise significantly more than the amount from the sale of unsold units
The trust has so far given approvals to 164 projects involving an investment of more than Rs 15,000 crore, which will help complete around 1,00,000 homes
A majority of the projects considered for stress funding had RERA and NCLT cases pending against them
The funding will be utilized for the construction and completion of its project Mantri Serenity.