October 3, 2009 – 5:30 pm
The Indian hotel industry will almost double the number of rooms from the current levels in 3-4 years by adding an estimated fifty-five thousand rooms, as per a study by consulting firm HVS India. The development of new rooms is going to be led by regional real estate players and hospitality firms as most large [...]
September 26, 2009 – 1:54 pm
Mumbai is expected to see the highest demand for residential space of approximately 16.40 lakh units due to the large scale urbanization. The mid-scale and affordable housing in suburban and peripheral areas will be the focus of this demand. However, the demand for office space would be approximately 23.7 million square feet, which is lower [...]
September 25, 2009 – 1:00 pm
Though the 10 IPOs in the fiscal have mopped up close to Rs 10,000 crore, the attitude of retail investors to the offerings has been one of extreme caution.
While participation by institutional and high net worth investors has been positive, retail interest has waned, said merchant bankers.
The 10 IPOs that hit the market this fiscal [...]
September 23, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Bringing character to a home is the latest mantra, at least in the luxury format.
Designer Mr Sabyasachi Mukherjee will work on six of the two hundred limited edition homes Samira Habitats is developing at Alibagh. These would cost upwards of one crore rupees each.
The designer will work closely with the project architect to ensure structural [...]
September 22, 2009 – 3:50 pm
Photo by paul goyetteProperty firms are launching housing projects and raising pitch for ongoing ones in the hope of making decent sales going into the festive season. The mood among builders may be buoyant, but very few believe price hike is possible as demand is still hesitant and new supplies are hitting the market.
The festive [...]
September 21, 2009 – 4:47 pm
Dax Properties is setting up a 18-hole golf course-centric luxury retreat and township at Shadnagar near here which will entail investment of five hundred crore rupees.
The golf course will be spread over 130 acres on a 300-acre site earmarked for the Golf Retreat project, according to Mr Masood, MD of the Bangalore-based Dax Properties, part [...]
September 21, 2009 – 4:46 pm
It is the best time to look around for a value buy in real estate. With lower price points in locations which were not within your wallet’s reach, buyers are scouting for good ‘value’ bargains at this time.
And with developers going big on affordable home launches, the timing may just be one of the best [...]
September 4, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Real estateWe often read that recovery in realty market is visible now. Such news has reached to general people and they have started looking at property of their choice at affordable rates. Competition between builders results into rate cuts and attractive offers for buyers. It can be easily figured out by taking [...]
August 18, 2009 – 3:04 pm
When we think about affordable house, a picture of congested home, situated far away from the city, comes in mind. Such images are pulling the buyers away from investing money. Builders are forced to think about cost cutting without compromising buyers expectations.
Puravankara is using cost effective construction techniques like prefabricated homes. Basically, your [...]
Gurgaon used to be the preferred place for office rental. During the last couple of months, office rental increased tremendously. This led many companies to think about moving their offices to other cities. Even the lock-in period has failed to stop the companies to shift. Companies are also getting fully furnished offices at almost half [...]
PropertywalaThe commercial real estate market is slowly reviving as higher government incomes and an improving economy are prompting customers to invest. Developers say that there are more enquiries from investors.
Many developers, instead of selling their properties, are signing rental deals. In one recent deal, global consultant KPMG signed a deal with Lodha Developers for [...]
April 24, 2008 – 10:32 am
The stock of unoccupied properties with real estate developers in the main technology hubs of Bangalore and Chennai is mounting and indications are that their problems will only get worse as software companies head towards greener pastures.
MUMBAI – Real estate firm Parsvnath Developers Ltd has sold thirty percent stake in a Mumbai project to foreign funds for 1.86 billion rupees, the company said in an announcement on Thursday.
Shares in the company hit a high of 217.65 rupees on the news, and were trading 4.57 % higher at 216.30 rupees.
Parsvnath will sell [...]
Real estate industry is passing through the transition phase. This phase will decide the future of real estate. Every day something new is coming to us. Sometimes we get to know new real estate trends and sometimes new way to make the property popular. The recent new trend is that now the real estate will use the [...]
The Goldman Sachs investment bank, which has real estate investment worth $23.7 billion worldwide, will commence investing in the Russian real estate market. The bank is in the course of action of forming a $4-billion fund for real estate investments in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Approximately half of the money will [...]
BANGALORE – IBM Corp plans to make better growth in India as part of its strategy to improve focus on promising markets and as local companies spend more on technology to cut costs and improve efficiency, an official said on Tuesday.
February 25, 2008 – 3:27 am
According to the agency report India’s Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited is planning to enter real estate development in Oman.
A senior Nagarjuna Construction official said that “We have plans to develop a multi storied building in Sohar in partnership with an Omani company. The apartment, which will be constructed at a cost of OMR 3 million, [...]
February 18, 2008 – 9:00 am
Red Fort Capital Advisors has planned to bring in an additional $500 million in the next two years. It is a well known international private equity firm. The firm is considering upon its portfolio into growth sectors like logistics, especially the warehousing in the near term. It has $425 million real estate investment focused fund [...]
February 16, 2008 – 5:56 am
Chatwal is all set to spend Rupees five thousand crore in India. At this time, his company is coming up with 8 hotels in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The first of these properties, in Hyderabad.
February 1, 2008 – 1:55 am
Trend setter always started from the small and made a big one. Following the same strategy, a group of real estate companies, who are not in the position to proceed through the organized financing route of initial public offering, have started approaching the public in their own ways. They are assuring for regular returns on [...]
