NEW DELHI: Real estate companies, who are bound by strict conditions for bringing in foreign direct investment (FDI), can now look forward to a breather.

Companies developing several projects simultaneously are likely to get a waiver on meeting FDI conditions on some if majority of the projects are FDI-compliant. Realty companies are subjected to conditions such as three-year lock-in period and a minimum development of 10 hectares for bringing in FDI.

The move will particularly benefit real estate companies that take up expansion plans from time to time. Under the proposed waiver, such expansion schemes/projects would be eligible to get foreign funds even if they do not comply with the required conditionalities separately on their own.

“Many a time, the developer faces difficulty to hive off projects that are not FDI-compliant. The industry’s main grouse is that if some of the projects are taken in isolation it negates the purpose of the whole project,” a senior government official