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Party time for consumers as southern India cools.

ALI VAKIL- Director – Vakil Housing Development Corp. Financial Express | 04/05/2008 After growing at a fast and furious pace over the past few years, the Real estate sector in southern India is cooling down. This has been caused mainly by a slowdown of the IT sector that impacts theregioninmoreways than one. Besides, rising home [...]


More Feathers in North Bangalore’s Cap

Deccan Herald | 25th April 2008 The icing on the cake being the international airport, North Bangalore has much more to offer now. Widening of National Highway 7, improvement of roadwork on National Highway 207 and State Highway 104 ( connecting Whitefield and Hoskote to North Bangalore), is also paving the way for various residential, [...]


Indian Real Estate Offers Great Investments

India Property Times | APRIL 2008 India is now an attractie destination for NRI’s looking to come back home. Mohammed Ali Vakil, son of M A Vakil, is one of the Directors of Vakil Housing Development Corporation, one of the leading developers of residential Townships in Bangalore. He takes care of the departments of Marketing [...]


The B School-Realty industry nexus.

DH Realty – Friday, April 11, 2008 There is an increasing number of B-School graduates opting to make fruitful career in the Real Estate industry that is slowly but surely becoming more organised. Bindu Gopal Rao describes the trend. There is a slow but sure trend in the real estate market. Before you let your [...]


New Dynamics of corporate interactions

Article Published in Times of India – Bangalore. Corporate blogging is now used as a tool to give organizations a personal and humane touch, rather than being a sales and marketing medium. Arif and Ali Vakil don’t run the best known real estate business in India’s Silicon Valley. But the Vakil brothers believe that they [...]


Vakil Housing Eyes Hosur for Villa Project

Article Published in Hindu Business Line. ( Coimbatore ) Vakil Housing eyes Hosur for Villa Project. Bangalore – based Vakil Housing Development Corporation, developers of residential townships, is eyeing Hosur as its next ideal project promotion destination. Commenting on the decision to foray into Hosur, its Director Mr. Mohammed Ali, said. “Its a risky but [...]


Vakil Townscape Tour on Google Earth

We’ve recently created a tour of Vakil Townscape on Google Earth. We’re quite excited to see the possibilities of Google Earth brought to the Real Estate community and we’re keen to explore them. Below is an example:


Press: Hindu Business line – February 08

Article Published in Hindu Business Line. Date: February 08 – Modify tax structure for real estate industry. Real Estate industry is the second largest provider of employment after agriculture. We urge the Finance Minister to recognise this and accord the same consideration and treatment as other industries like software. Service tax should be reduced along [...]


Press: Moneycontrol.com

Article Published in Moneycontrol.com Portal Date: February 08 – Real Estate industry is the second largest provider of employment after agriculture in India. Further, Real estate is universally acknowledged as the primary trigger of economic activity. Each rupee spent in housing generates more emplyment and economic activity than any other industry. We urge the FM [...]


Press: Kerala Kaumudi – February 08

Article Published in KERALA KAUMUDI – Bangalore Edition. Date: Feberuary 08 – Vakil Housing reaches 2000 kgs of rice to less fortunate through ” Bangalore Food Bank ” This article publised in Malayalam Daily called “Kerala Kaumudi” in Malayalam Language. to read full Article.