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Construction and Real Estate

Sri Lanka to use Rs1bn of OPEC fund loan to improve Embilipitiya road

"This section of the road will provide access to several tourist attractions"

September 23, 2025 1 min read

Prime Lands buys land in Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka for Rs3.5bn

Land at Bambalapitiya Station Road

September 15, 2025 1 min read

Sri Lanka to lease land for 38 investment projects

The land is to be provided from industrial parks on a lease basis for a maximum period of 35 years

September 9, 2025 1 min read

29 Sri Lanka MPs to lose discount on houses

"If the 29 relevant MPs like they can purchase the houses at the market rate," Jayatissa said.

September 4, 2025 2 min read
Maga Engineering gets Rs2.6bn water project in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

JICA funded contract valued at 628.10 million Japanese Yen (2,660.70 million rupees)

Sri Lanka to convert courts at Galle Fort for tourism project

High Court and Magistrate's Court, currently in Galle Fort, will be moved to new courts complex constructed in Beligaha

Nathaniel Rothschild visits Sri Lanka Port City

Nathaniel Rothschild, a member of a Europe-based investment banking family, had visited Sri Lanka's Port City as part o...

January 15, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Browns and China Harbour ink deal for Port City towers

Browns Investments said it had inked a deal to join China Harbour Engineering in a 450 million dollar mixed development ...

December 17, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Port City says Covid-19 positive China workers linked to another site

CHEC Port City Colombo, which has reclaimed the sea off Sri Lanka's capital says four workers from China that tested pos...

November 14, 2020 2 min read

China construction workers in Sri Lanka hit by Coronavirus

Four Chinese nationals working in a construction site in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo and two locals have been confirmed ...

November 13, 2020 1 min read

India ITC hotel Covid-19 workers in Sri Lanka for over a year

Construction workers linked WelcomHotels Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of India's ITC group has been resident in Sri Lanka for...

November 12, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka rents falling on expat exit, Covid-19 but low rates help real estate buys

Sri Lanka's Coronavirus crises and an exit of expatriates have lowered rents but real estate is attractive medium to l...

Tania Madies
October 26, 2020 7 min read

Sri Lanka real estate outlook in Echelon online forum LIVE NOW

Sri Lanka's real estate investments will be under the spotlight in a Echelon Decodes live forum at 1530 hours today (Oct...

October 22, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka to invite investors to build multi-storey PPP car parks in Colombo, key towns

Sri Lanka will call invite private investors to build multi-storey car parks as public private partnerships with the Urb...

October 13, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka state company to own, finance expressways

Sri Lanka will set up a state-run company to own and self-finance expressways which may require financing of around 0.5...

October 13, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's John Keells launches luxury houses at Troon-run golf resort

Sri Lanka's John Keells Properties said it will build townhouses and luxury villas at Victoria Golf and Country Resort, ...

October 11, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka mall cuts rents in Coronavirus downturn, stock price soars

Sri Lanka's CT Land Development Plc, a property developer that runs Colombo's Majestic City mall said it was cutting ren...

October 5, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Kelsey Homes says starting 300 unit gated community

Sri Lanka's Kelsey Homes says it is launching a 300 unit housing project in Ja Ela, after the first phase of 70 units wa...

October 1, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Access Engineering wins Rs9.3bn UDA housing deal

Sri Lanka's Access Engineering Plc has won a 9.37 billion rupee housing deal from the Urban Development Authority, the s...

September 23, 2020 1 min read

Deadly building collapse in Kandy sign of weak regulation - NBRO

The building that collapsed in Kandy killing an infant and two adults may not have been built according to specification...

Arjuna Ranawana
September 20, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's China backed project puts reclaimed land on the market for services FDI

Sri Lanka's Colombo Port City, a project financed by China-based business group has placed 13 blocks of prime land recla...

September 16, 2020 3 min read

US sanctions on China firms will not affect investments in Sri Lanka's reclaimed port city: official

Colombo Port City, where investors will get land from the government of Sri Lanka are not part of United States sanction...

September 14, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka state housing authority to sell Rs25bn in 5-year bonds

Sri Lanka's state-run National Housing Development Authority has been authorized to sell 25 billion rupees in bonds to b...

September 3, 2020 1 min read

Land prices rise 7.1-pct in Sri Lanka's capital district Colombo

Land values in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo had grown 7.1 percent in the first half of 2020 from a year earlier, while pr...

August 26, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Sanken gets offshore finance for construction imports amid trade controls

Sri Lanka's Sanken group said it has secured offshore import financing facility suported by Hatton National Bank and Peo...

August 21, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka SEC urges real estate securities with rules in place

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka said rules are now in place for the issue of Real Estate Investment ...

August 2, 2020 2 min read