Tag: Capital Markets

Realty PE Deal Volume Rises in Q1 and Big Deals are missing.

Private equity deals are alive and kicking in Indian real estate space even though headline numbers do not reflect the same due to the absence of big ticket investments. The total number of PE deals during the first quarter of CY 2012 has hit a three-year high, according to VCCEdge, the financial research platform of […]

Bank lending to residential sector increased in 2009-10

In 2009-10, the lenders such as Jammu & Kashmir Bank, Union Bank of India, ICICI, Bank of India and Canara Bank reduced lending to the some sectors of real estate. As per the data provided by banks, the largest private sector bank, ICICI reduced its lending to realty by 17 % and to capital markets […]

Investment in Asian real estate sector to benefit India

India may get benefited from the increased fund allocation to Asian real estate sector by global investors. Even as total amount raised by private equity real estate funds between January and November 2008 fell by a third to $57 billion from a year ago, the allocation towards Asian markets increased to 28% from 19%. As […]

Banks told to assess builders’ fund needs

India’s troubled realty firms may soon be thrown a lifeline, with the Reserve Bank of India indicating that banks consider providing support to large real estate companies. Recently, the regulator wrote to select banks telling them to assess the financial support given to builders and to finalize a workable solution, a senior banker said. The […]

Saffron Asset To Launch Three New Funds

Saffron Asset Advisors, a private equity player, is planning to launch three new funds in hospitality, logistics and infrastructure early on 2010. Ajoy Veer Kapoor, founder and managing director, Saffron Asset Advisors told FE, “We are planning a five hundred million dollar infrastructure fund, and will introduce two hundred million dollar hospitality and logistics funds. […]