3 Steps For Securing Equity Capital For Your Real Estate Project

I previously shared the steps for creating a professional plan for a real estate project; the importance of obtaining third-party validation; advice in how to find the right financing sources; and suggestions on presenting the project professionally, then closing the deal. This approach will enable you to obtain financing term sheets, letters of intent and/or financing commitment letters from lenders if your project is financially feasible and falls within the lending parameters of the financing institutions that you approach. Nevertheless, financing always requires a cash contribution, as 100% financing is not realistic in today's market.

Read This Before Investing in GDA Housing Schemes

If you are not one of the 25,000 lucky winners of DDA housing scheme 2014, here is one more opportunity to own a home in NCR. Ghaziabad Development Authority has come up with 2 latest housing schemes, one in Indirapuram and other in different parts of the city for EWS and LIG categories. The authority is offering a total of 370 multi-storey flats in the Indirapuram scheme and 1979 flats in the EWS/LIG scheme. But, you might want to consider investing in properties of private builders after looking at the cost, especially of the Indirapuram flats.

How Are "Locally Led" Garden Cities Different?

Localism in land use planning is the new mantra for address the UK housing shortage. But smaller scale, investor-driven projects get more done for now.

The housing shortage in the UK is generating a revisiting of the "garden city" concept first proposed by Ebenezer Howard in the late 19th century. Some of the most aggressive, large-scale building in England after the Second World War (Basildon, Central Lancashire, Letchworth, Milton Keynes, et al.) are in retrospect considered successful. Now, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the coalition government are proposing that garden cities be developed in Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.

Labour's Emma Reynolds Predictions: A Dire Housing Future - and Her Proposed Solutions

The shadow housing minister's job is to disagree with the Government. But her policy proposals to boost homebuilding investments certainly offer detailed perspectives.

As shadow minister of housing, it is MP Emma Reynolds' job to challenge the ruling Government. In so doing, she arguably lays out a future set of policies and programmes that might be how the UK housing crisis is addressed should Labour take back the reins - not as, she contends, how the Coalition Government is doing things.

Reynolds has laid down her positions in light of some very troubling observations and statistics. At mid-2014 she projected to the year 2020 saying that the nation's deficit in homes would climb to 1.3 million, or as she put it "equivalent to the city of Birmingham." And for homebuyers, the average price would be 13 times the average wage at £359,000 - requiring an average deposit of £72,000, a number she sourced from the House of Commons library.