Online home sale festival

Online real estate advisory firm PropTiger.com, in association with Godrej Properties, is holding an online property festival — “The Big Happiness Festival” from September 7 to 14. This is the first such event organised by an online real estate platform. The sales event will provide prospective home buyers lucrative deals and discounts on home purchases across major cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.

The festival, running exclusively on www.proptiger.com and www.makaan.com, is targeting prospective home buyers across India and is offering numerous reasons for customers to book homes online. During the festival, properties can be booked online with a token amount of just Rs20,000. Deals on offer include free open car parking and modular kitchen, subvention plans and up to Rs40,000 of assured gift vouchers.

Green Building Materials Centres

ACC cement company recently set up Green Building Material Centres in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to provide affordable housing to the rural populace. These centres will educate the rural population, particularly low cost builders in construction techniques, use of eco-friendly building materials and create business opportunities for them to network with local government and community. These centres will familiarise customers with rural construction techniques and function as one-stop shops with:

• Locally produced, easy to use, reasonably priced construction products like bricks, tiles, pavers and similar items
• Knowledge and training on how to produce and apply these products in the rural context
• Well-equipped quality laboratory to monitor product quality. — TNS