February 19, 2009
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Liquidity support for real estate sector lowers lending costs and provides special refinance and restructuring relief.
RBI implemented liquidity measures for the building and real-estate sector, including repo rate reductions to permit lower lending rates and a Special Refinance Facility routed via the National Housing Bank to enable housing finance companies to obtain funds at reasonable interest; regulators also permitted special treatment for commercial real-estate restructurings up to a specified cutoff. Concurrently, the Government pursued enforcement measures against black money through search and seizure, surveys, return scrutiny, penalties and prosecutions.