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Sebi has approved a framework allowing REITs and InvITs to issue depository receipts to non-Indian investors. The rules permit fresh unit issuance and require prior unitholder approval, along with compliance on pricing and disclosures.
10:59 PMEconomic Times Realty
Sebi has created a framework allowing real estate investment trusts and infrastructure investment trusts to issue foreign currency denominated depository receipts. The instruments can be listed on international exchanges in GIFT City, subject to unitholder approval and other eligibility conditions.
8:15 PMEconomic Times
Sebi introduced a framework allowing REITs and InvITs to issue depositary receipts for foreign investors. Issuers need approvals from Indian and overseas exchanges, while fresh offerings require approval from at least 75% of unitholders.
9:47 AMEconomic Times
India’s commercial real estate market is entering a more mature phase, with office, retail and warehousing attracting institutional investors. Despite historically low cap rates, these assets could still deliver double-digit unlevered returns over five years, driven increasingly by rental growth and operational performance.
3:05 AMEconomic Times
NCRTC and the National Capital Region Planning Board are examining planning, regulatory and investment frameworks for development along regional transport corridors. The discussions remain at the framework stage and do not amount to approval of all proposed projects or confirmation that the corridors will be completed.
5:13 AMThe Property TimesSummary
Sebi has approved a framework allowing REITs and InvITs to issue depository receipts to non-Indian investors. The rules permit fresh unit issuance and require prior unitholder approval, along with compliance on pricing and disclosures.
The change gives REITs and InvITs a formal channel to reach overseas capital beyond direct
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A regulated depository-receipt route could deepen foreign participation and improve capital access for Indian property and infrastructure trusts.
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Sebi has created a framework allowing real estate investment trusts and infrastructure investment trusts to issue foreign currency denominated depository receipts. The instruments can be listed on international exchanges in GIFT City, subject to unitholder approval and other eligibility conditions.
The rule gives REITs and InvITs a new route to raise capital from overseas investors
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The framework could deepen foreign capital access for Indian property and infrastructure assets while increasing competition among trusts for global investors.
Summary
Sebi introduced a framework allowing REITs and InvITs to issue depositary receipts for foreign investors. Issuers need approvals from Indian and overseas exchanges, while fresh offerings require approval from at least 75% of unitholders.
The framework expands the channels through which global capital can access India's listed real estate
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Depositary receipts could widen the investor base and improve funding access for Indian REITs and InvITs.
Summary
India’s commercial real estate market is entering a more mature phase, with office, retail and warehousing attracting institutional investors. Despite historically low cap rates, these assets could still deliver double-digit unlevered returns over five years, driven increasingly by rental growth and operational performance.
Further cap-rate compression is unlikely to drive returns, shifting the investment case toward income growth
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Commercial real estate returns will depend less on valuation gains and more on the ability to grow cash flows.
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NCRTC and the National Capital Region Planning Board are examining planning, regulatory and investment frameworks for development along regional transport corridors. The discussions remain at the framework stage and do not amount to approval of all proposed projects or confirmation that the corridors will be completed.
The key shift is the move toward coordinating transport investment with land development, but the
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Transit-led growth will only deliver broad public value if housing remains affordable near the infrastructure it creates.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration used a new law for the first time to intervene in a Brooklyn eviction case involving a family that says it was targeted through deed fraud. A city lawyer filed papers seeking to halt the eviction, though the intervention may not have come in time to prevent it.
4:36 PMThe CitySummary
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration used a new law for the first time to intervene in a Brooklyn eviction case involving a family that says it was targeted through deed fraud. A city lawyer filed papers seeking to halt the eviction, though the intervention may not have come in time to prevent it.
The administration has moved deed-fraud enforcement from legislation into an active eviction case, testing how
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The case will show whether the city’s new deed-fraud law can deliver timely protection or mainly provide relief after displacement is already underway.
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