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 yet. We will also enter retail and commercial project development”. Read More
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. Read More
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 verified. Read More
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 developing Market City Projects, spread across 21.4 million square feet, in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Raipur, Agra and Indore.
The company is seeking to establish long-term relationships with developers in its bid to achieve a pan-India footprint in three years.
According to an estimate, the country is all set to have over 500 malls by 2010 from just three malls in 2000. Roughly 300 million sq ft of quality retail space will be accumulated by 2011.
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.
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 screens with a total capacity of 2,500, as part of their upcoming project, Mall of India, at Gurgaon.
Expected to be one of the country’s biggest malls, it will cover an area of 40 lakh sq ft.
DT Cinemas announced the opening of their multiplex at DLF Infocity, IT Park, Chandigarh. Infocity covers an area of 1,90,000 sq ft and most of the space has been leased out. The mall will start operating within the next 10-12 days.
Kajal Aijaz, CEO, DT Cinemas, said that with the multiplex offering state-of-the-art facilities like Christie cinema projection system, excellent acoustics, wall-to-wall carpeting, extra legroom with comfortable slideback seating and push back armrests for the audience, they were eyeing about 66 per cent occupancy at the multiplex in the first year.
With DLF planning to set up another 120 malls in different parts of the country, DT Cinemas would be the chief attraction in most of these malls.
Apart from Ludhiana and Jalandhar, where multiplexes would be opened in a couple of years, the company is also opening multiplexes at Savitri-GK2, Shalimar Bagh, Vasant Kunj and Saket in Delhi and Star Mall, Gurgaon, this year, Aijaz said.
DT Cinemas will also set up multiplexes in Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Goa and Kolkata.
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 of the Trident brand, in his new designation will be responsible for all growth activities of the brand. Talking about the end of Hilton-Oberoi alliance, Mr.Oberoi said, “It was not a fallout but a mutual decision made by both parties. Hilton’s alliance with a real estate company will only lead to brand confusion in terms of Trident Hilton properties and other Hilton-owned properties.”
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 the global warming concerns. We have designed our projects in such a manner that people would not have to sacrifice their comforts and will live in a healthy environment”. Read More
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 invested from its global fund. The reason behind such strategy is that Rreef looks forward to be a part of coming boom of real estate market. It currently owns $97.3 billion in assets under management worldwide.
Mr Kishore Gotety, Head, real-estate advisory services, Deutsche Asset Management, said, “Rreef has not taken a majority stake in Golden Gate”.
Mr Kurt Roeloffs, CEO of Asia Pacific, Rreef said, “India is a particularly attractive emerging real-estate market for our high return-oriented clients and in time will mature into an important investment destination for Rreefs broader base of institutional and retail clients. Golden Gate Properties can provide us with an important cornerstone for further investment in India.”
Golden Gate primarily deals with residential apartment projects in India. It has a collection of 10 completed projects, out of which eight are residential apartment and two are commercial projects within Bangalore and Hyderabad.
