Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Housing Market Information System

A 5-page presentation about the housing market information system. It facilitates the need for a property information system, information available, information required and possible sources and trends impactin...

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Investment Opportunities in the Real Estate Sector in Pakistan

Provision of Affordable Housing: Assuming 1/3rd of the housing development is at the desired rate of 1 million units per year for the urban population. And further assuming that nearly 80% of that housing requi...

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Road-map for construction of 250,000 Low Cost Houses

The country is facing a massive backlog of housing, estimated at around 7 mn housing units. The shortage is acute, in low and middle-income sections of the population. The Government is working on a comprehensi...

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Urbanisation And Growth of Million Plus Cities in India

A 21-page presentation on the growth of urban centers and the concentration of population in urban areas of India, which is a major transformation in the 20th century. Urban population is growing 3 times faster...

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TMC India Low Income Housing Project

A 19-page document of a constructor/developer, M/s TMC, Tanaji Malusare City, India, giving their objective of building cities for the poor, their business plan and model, and achievement, providing guidelines ...

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Solar for Housing

Solar energy, on average, is available 8-10 hours per day in most areas of Pakistan. Wind energy is an attractive alternate solution, in certain areas. “hybrid solution” of Solar Plus Wind is a better option, i...

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Crisis Around the World; Impact, Responses & Structural Challenges

A PowerPoint presentation on the Indian experience of facing the global financial crisis of 2008, and India’s gaining economic power. It discusses the regulatory response by the government and central bank and ...

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Infrastructure & Housing Finance Department

A 17-page document is a report which captures and discusses the main features of the visit by the SBP delegation to New Delhi, India from November 25th,2010 to December 2nd, 2010. The delegation was led by the ...

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Sectoral Report k of National Housing Bank of India

The sectoral report of April-June 2013 on housing and housing finance in India for the quarter of April- June 2013 comprehensively details the housing and housing finance sector globally and in the context of t...

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Pro-Poor Housing Challenges and Asia-Pacific Union for Housing Finance

A 31-page presentation on pro-poor housing challenges. It deals with issues of political sloganizm n “Housing for all”, “Slums Free Cities”, “Maang Raha hai har Insaan-Roti, Kapra, aur Makan”, and so on. In som...

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Rural Housing Fund(RHF)

A 4-page document on the Rural Housing Fund(RHF) of India. The National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy 2007 released by the Government of India in December 2007 commends a multi-pronged strategy for achieving...

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National Housing Bank An Overview

A 20-page presentation on the National Housing Bank (NHB) of India. NHB is a central regulatory and financing bank for the housing sector in India created as a fully owned subsidiary of India’s central bank, th...

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Low Income Housing: State of the Market

A 16-page presentation on market conditions in India of low-income housing. Extensive ground research, the effort of more than 300 man-days, in 8 large urban centers to scan for sub-10 lakh housing. An in-depth...

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Mortgage without proof of address-India

A 4-page document mortgage without proof of address. Micro Housing Finance Corporation in India provides mortgage loans to people with no formal documentation of their earnings, and often no proof of a current ...

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Low Income Housing in Urban India

A 13-page presentation on low-income housing in urban India. It highlights the potential opportunity around low-income housing in Urban India, demonstrates the positive impact (social, economic) low-income hous...

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Capitalizing On the Opportunity in Indian Real Estate

This presentation is about Capitalizing on the Opportunity in Indian Real Estate discussing following aspects Key Trends in Indian Real Estate Evaluating Potential by Understanding Challenges Legal Framework fo...

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The Rise of Housing Finance: Opportunities and Challenges -India

A 22-slide presentation on housing finance opportunities and challenges in India. It covers the current retail market scenario, commercial real estate, sources of funding, and challenges & prospects.

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Real Estate Financing Options & Issues -India

An 18-page presentation on real estate financing options in India. These are the options presently available: conventional bank credits: – CC/OD – project loan – factoring – LAP – ...

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India Mutual Fund Sector to expand exposure in housing sector

A 1-page paper on the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) allowing debt mutual funds to take additional exposure in housing finance firms over and above the 30 percent cap for the financial services...

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Low Income Housing Finance

A 74-page document is a report that has been prepared by Monitor Company1 for the National Housing Bank to explore how to get the private sector to serve sizeable segments of low-income urban households on a pu...

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Affordable Housing: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

A 6-page document discussing the state affordable housing in India, and how so far the design model for affordable housing has been to compress a home into a single room. The document discusses how the Indian g...