Author Archives: Rajani

Zuri brand of hotels in India

Phoenix Group Global, a promoter of luxury resorts, on Tuesday announced the launch of its own brand of Zuri luxurious hotels and resorts in India. The first five-star hotel will open at Whitefield in Bangalore in January next year, said Priti Chand, media officer of the business group. “We are acquiring land for five other [...]

TDIL’s scheme for customers

TDI Infrastructure Ltd (TDIL) has announced a scheme for customers who wish to build their homes by offering subsidized construction and assured rentals.
A first of its type scheme, Build and Earn, will enable plot owners of TDI City, Kundli, to build their dream house while enjoying a rebate of about 20-25% on the overall construction [...]

Slowdown hits demand for prime office space in cities: CBRE

NEW DELHI: Office space absorption in the country has gone down by 41.11% cumulatively in the three quarters ended September this year, as a fallout of the global economic slowdown.
The total office space take up between January and September this year stood at 5.3 million square feet as against 9 million square feet in the [...]

Raheja Prices Villas At Rs 6 Crore

Real estate entrepreneur Vijay Raheja has lined up a raft of projects in Mumbai and Bangalore for the next six months to a year—braving a slump in the property market after splitting the family business with his brother in July—and started with a development targeted at the rich.
His company, V Raheja Design Construction launched its [...]

Mumbai Bets On A Realty Cheque

It’s an initiative that could lead to a facelift for Malabar Hill, Mumbai’s toniest address, as well as Nariman Point and other areas in South Mumbai. The city collector has proposed to free government-owned land, which is currently locked in lease agreements, by selling it at market rates.
However, a section of the state administration feels [...]

New Homes For India

An entire township of nearly four thousand new homes is being built in Southern India, dubbed a “mega project” for the country’s building boom.
Sahara Prime City, the real estate arm of Sahara India Pariwar, is building the project in Coimbatore as part of what it says will be a vast chain of townships in 217 [...]

Realty index slips 3.7%

With the domestic bourses taking cues from global markets, the realty stocks on Wednesday dipped 3.70% as bearish sentiments gripped the market.
The realty index opened at 2,720.59 points and touched an intra-day low of 2,701 points in the first few minutes of trade. It was later quoting at 2,716.17 points, down 3.16%. Led by Indiabulls [...]

Green Real Estate Project

Falcon Realty Services Private Limited (FRSPL) is dynamically involved in Land acquirement and Land consolidation in India for more than twenty years. It is launching a real estate project named Global Eco-City on Expressway (NH-8) in Delhi - NCR. The project to be spread over thirty-five acres in the initial phase. It promises to be [...]

Residential developers offering discounts

Rising property prices and increased interest rates, coupled with a demand-supply mismatch has brought down the overall affordability of residential properties in the country today forcing developers to resort to offering feebies and early bird discounts to arrest fall in sales, according to a recent report.
The economic slowdown which has mainly affected suburban and non-metro [...]

Green Building: A New Success Matra

There is a new mantra among builders. They are chanting it with the fervor of cheerleaders: green architecture. The flag bearer of green construction is the Indian Council of Green Building (ICGB). An organization formed by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, the ICGB is calling eco-friendly architecture a [...]