New Delhi: Housing prices have increased by an average 66 per cent in Mumbai over the last four years on account of steady demand and rising input cost, according to property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
The increase has been even higher at 70 per cent in Thane and 74 per cent in Navi Mumbai. "The cumulative price escalation figures for Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai represent the highest among all cities in India," JLL India Managing Director (West) Ramesh Nair said in a statement.
Gurgaon and Bangalore saw price appreciation of 52 per cent and 46 per cent, respectively, during this period. "Residential property prices in Mumbai have increased steadily after the correction seen post the Lehman debacle. In the period from the second quarter of 2009 to the same quarter in 2013, residential real estate prices in Mumbai have increased by 66 per cent," Nair said.
On reasons for price rise, Nair noted that the demand for investment residential properties and end-user homes in the country's financial capital has remained stable. That apart, the consultant attributed the prices movement to limited supply of clear land, reduction in new launches between 2011 and 2012 middle and high interest rate scenario....
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05:05 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A senior inspector posted with the Delhi Police special cell has reportedly committed suicide. Sources say inspector Badrish Dutt was found dead along with a female friend in Sector 52 of Gurgaon. Both the bodies had gunshot injuries. Dutt was part of a special cell surveillance team and had been part of several anti-terror operations in the past. More details are awaited. ...
02:59 PM, May 11, 2013
Gurgaon: Three people were arrested on Friday for gang-raping two minor girls and shooting videos of the scene to blackmail them, police said. The two girls, both aged 15 and class 10 students, were gang-raped by the three youths of village Seinka Gudana under Pataudi police station, some 26 km from Gurgaon city. One of the girls had last week gone to her to her classmate's house for some books....
05:14 AM, May 11, 2013
Gurgaon: Two men allegedly gangraped a 23-year-old girl in a moving car in Sohna near Gurgaon. The police have arrested one of the accused named by the victim while the others are still absconding. According to the victim, she came with her friend Devendra in his SUV from Delhi to Gurgaon for shopping. A friend of Devendra was also in the car, she said. She added that they went to...
11:12 AM, May 01, 2013
Gurgaon: A youth was beaten to death here at a wedding after a tiff over playing songs, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Kherki Majra village under Rajendra Park police station in Gurgaon on early Tuesday. Ompal, 19, of Sakhrod village of Bhiwani district in Haryana, who was the part of a procession, was beaten to death by fellow revellers. According to police, some youths were dancing at...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Gurgaon: Two women have alleged that three men raped them in a car after giving them a lift, police said on Saturday. The women, who are 22 and 45, said in their complaint to police that they had taken a lift from Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon to go to Sohna. However, instead of heading towards Sohna, the three men, all in their 40s, turned towards Taudu and raped them on...
09:47 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Gurgaon: A man raped his five-year-old cousin in Gurgaon when she was alone in her house, police said on Tuesday. Ajay Kumar, 19, a resident of Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, was arrested in Gurgaon district's Sohna area for raping his cousin on Monday evening. He was taken into custody within hours of the incident. Sohna Station House Officer Anil Kumar said the accused was on Tuesday presented before Judicial Magistrate Sukhpreet...
05:07 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Gurgaon: A 23-year-old domestic help and her husband were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping her employer's four-year-old son for ransom. Pooja was employed at the house in Sector 48 here just five days ago through a consultant agency, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Alok Mittal told reporters. On Tuesday afternoon, Pooja called her husband Devi Lal at the employer's house on some pretext, he said. The couple then overcame the mother...
11:08 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Gurgaon: Haryana Sports Minister Sukhbir Kataria on Friday appeared in a local court which granted him bail in a bogus voters case related to 2009 Assembly elections. Judge Ashok Mann granted bail to Kataria, who has been booked under various sections of IPC related to forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy along with six others, who did not appear despite summons against them. On the direction of Punjab and Haryana High...
05:25 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Gurgaon: An unidentified man was murdered and his body with over a dozen stab wounds dumped near railway tracks in Gurgaon, police said on Sunday. The body of the man, aged around 25 years, bore over a dozen stab wounds, police said. "He has been stabbed more than 13 times. The body was lying close to a yard of platform number one of the Gurgaon railway station," said investigation officer...
11:53 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Gurgaon: A local businessman was on Thursday arrested for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter for over a period of three years, police said. The case was registered at Sushant Lok police station in Gurgaon based on the complaint filed by the victim who alleged that her father, Anil Kumar, repeatedly raped her during last three years, ACP, DLF, Bhupinder Singh told PTI. The girl, a class XII student, reportedly told...
12:56 AM, Apr 05, 2013
The district administration in Gurgaon sealed several illegal farmhouses, including that of singer Mika Singh. ...
10:43 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Indian women's kabaddi team coach Sunil Dabas, who is also a teacher in a Gurgaon school, reportedly fainted after a Congress MLA passed some lewd and insulting comments against her during a function in Gurgaon. The alleged incident took place at DSD college, Gurgaon. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A first-year male student of a private engineering college in Gurgaon remains critical in the ICU after he was found drugged and unconscious with multiple injuries outside the college premises. The student is a resident of Delhi. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 20, 2013
A Haryana Police officer was shot at by three unidentified assailants on the busy Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway on Monday evening, said a police official. His condition is critical. ...
02:20 AM, Mar 19, 2013
A motor mechanic was arrested here for raping a married woman, police said Sunday. Jagdeep Singh, 42, a resident of Khandsa near sector 37 of Gurgaon, was arrested for sexually assaulting a 21-year-old married woman. ...
11:23 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two lovers, missing from their houses since the day before, were found dead on a railway track in Gurgaon on Monday, police said. Balwant, 28, a cooking gas agency employee based in Ashok Vihar, and Class 9 student Kavita, 16, who lived with her family in Chakkarpur in new Gurgaon, were in love and wanted to get married, police said. ...
04:17 AM, Mar 12, 2013
A 32-year-old call centre employee in Gurgaon has alleged rape by a suspected co-worker and a cab driver. A case registered at the DLF Phase 2 police station in Gurgaon. ...
12:32 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A security guard posted at a construction site in Gurgaon was arrested on Monday for raping a woman labourer, police said. ...
02:06 AM, Mar 05, 2013
A personal security officer (PSO) of murdered liquor baron Ponty Chadha, deployed at his farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area, has committed suicide by shooting himself in his house in Gurgaon, police said on Thursday. ...
01:04 AM, Mar 01, 2013
