Tag Archives: Hyderabad

Two million affordable houses required

Affordable housing is the only solution for the middle income indians. Most of the people are in search of affordable homes in metros particularly in delhi/ ncr, bangalore, chennai and pune. According to the report by Knight Frank Research Households with an annual income between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 10 lakh in Mumbai, NCR, [...]

Realty Costs Less

Real estate developers have got a new way of perking up the market. Unitech, DLF, HDIL, BPTP and other big realty giants are offering a 30-40% discount on ongoing projects.
According to analysts such projects will help stimulate demand and bring in the much-needed liquidity in the industry, which is already dealing with unsold stock in [...]

Government plans another package for real estate

Government is planning another round of home loan package to make purchase of a house within the reach of middle class. PSB announced a home loan rate-cuts for homebuyers, a week ago. But, it was found that the package was far from expectations of both the public and developers. In that package, home loan up [...]

DLF cuts target by a third due to property slump

DLF Ltd has cut its current fiscal deliverable targets by about 33% following the deterioration in the housing and commercial property market.
The company is now expecting to deliver 15 million square feet against a guidance of 22-24 million square feet at the beginning of this fiscal. It has completed about 7 million square feet as [...]

Rising demand for affordable homes

Property prices within the metropolitan areas of Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad and Bangalore have seen massive growth in recent years and prices in some areas are considered
to be excessive. But, outside this golden circle, in cities such as Mohali in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the boom town of Rudrapur, in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, [...]

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 [...]

QVC Realty To Raise Funds For Spreading Out In South

Real estate developer QVC Realty plans to raise Rs 600 crore in 2009 through a mix of equity and debt, primarily to buy large tracts of land in the south, especially closer to the new airports in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
According to a senior official of the IL and FS backed QVC, it plans to use [...]

Lehman Fall May Deepen Indian Realtors’ Credit Woes

Lehman Brothers’ bankrupcy is likely to cost Indian real estate. It may impact the financial major’s existing investments worth $500 million in realty firms, including DLF and Unitech, besides drying up another $500-million worth of potential investment which was expected to flow into Unitech’s Mumbai projects.
The news of Lehman’s collapse brought the BSE realty index [...]

PBEL City In Hyderabad Development Corridor

Mr Anand Reddy, Director of PBEL Property Development India Pvt Ltd, an Indo Israeli joint venture, poses with a model of PBEL City, a township comprising thirteen residential and two commercial towers of nineteen storey each on a twenty eight acre area situated in Hyderabad development Corridor in Rajendranagar mandal.
PBEL, an Indo Israeli joint venture [...]

Sobha Looks Forward For Slum Redevelopment

Sobha Developers, a Bangalore-based realty major focussed on residential space, is looking at diversifying its portfolio through slum redevelopment schemes and special economic zones (SEZs), retail and commercial projects.
Mr. Raghav Menon, Executive director, said that the company would build an SEZ in either Tamil Nadu or Kerala. He said, “We haven’t decided on the place [...]

Kult Infotech Launches Online Real Estate Bank

Realizing the huge potential of internet usage in India, Kult Infotech today launched its new online real estate bank– www.valuePROPS.com– which provides comprehensive resource for all real estate topics related to buying, selling and renting with expertise knowledge.

Realty Needs Indices Similar To Equity Market

The Real estate industry in India has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past few years. However, the country still lacks a credible way to cross-check the price swings (real or reported) in the sector. For example, recent reports of residential prices cooling off in major cities of the country could not be [...]

Phoenix Mills to purchasing Rs 8 bn land

Phoenix Mills is in the final stage of acquiring three thirty acre plots in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Nashik for around eight billion rupees. The company plans to develop malls and entertainment zones on these lands.
It is learnt that the deal is likely to be sealed in the next few weeks.
The Mumbai-based real estate developer is [...]

Puravankara Projects board recommends 40% final dividend

The board of directors of Puravankara Projects has recommended a final dividend of forty percent, or two rupees share on equity share of five rupees each for the recent year. The payment is subject to the sanction of the shareholders at the yearly general meeting.

DLF Plans Multiplexes In Different Part Of Country

Chandigarh: DLF, a leading real estate player in the country, plans to invest Rs 1,250 crore for the development of its multiplex business. The company has planned to add minimum 500 screens in the next four to five years across the country.
DLF’s entertainment arm DT Cinemas will set up a megaplex, which will have 12 [...]

Trident Hilton Now Trident Hotel

On the last day of the Hilton-Oberoi strategic alliance PRS Oberoi chairman emeritus of EIH, re-launched the Trident Hilton hotels as Trident hotel. Speaking on the occasion, Oberoi said that all nine Trident Hiltons (located at Gurgaon, Mumbai, Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Kochi, Bhubaneshwar and Chennai) will now be rebranded as Trident.
Rattan Keswani, the newly-appointed president [...]

Audi plans to sell 1,200 units India in 2008

Considering the boom in the luxury car segment in the country, German car maker Audi said on Friday it expects to sell 1,200 units in India by the year.
The company is also ready to start assembling its, yet to be launched, A4 variant in the country with an investment of 10 million euros.

SatyaVani Group To Invest $10 Mn In Real Estate

SatyaVani Green Homes, Hyderabad-based real estate developers and part of the SatyVani group of companies, has decided to invest over ten million dollars in Udhodayam Green Homes.
Mr. P Surya Prakash, Managing Director, SatyaVani group of companies, said, “UGH will set an example on how construction industry can built a better tomorrow by not adding to [...]

Rreef Enters Indian Real Estate

Rreef has entered into the Indian real-estate sector with initial investment of $70 million. Rreef is known as global alternative investment manager business of Deutsche Bank. Rreef would be taking an undisclosed stake in Bangalore and Hyderabad based Golden Gate Properties Ltd. Rreef has no specially India dedicated fund, it has [...]