Tag: India

Slowdown in Retail Rental

The real estate consultants Knight Frank India said that apart from some localities of Delhi and Mumbai, the retail rentals in other locations will be sluggish for next two years. Although the number of malls and shop space has tremendously increased, the retail still lags behind commercial and residential property. “Although the outlook looks interesting, […]

Infra Fund of $500 by ICICI Venture

May 12, 2010 The chief executive of India’s ICICI Venture which is the ICICI Bank’s private equity arm announced that they plan an amount of 500 million dollars to be invested in infrastructure projects. This will be launched by July. In an interview, Vishakha Mulye told Reuters that majorly education (and) hospital will be put […]

Memo Submitted by CREDAI to Finance Ministry for Abolishment of Service Tax

Memorandum SubmissionApril 14, 2010 A memorandum has been submitted to the Finance Ministry concerned with the appeal for removal of service tax on housing complexes under construction by CREDAI, Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India which is a real estate industry body. The Chairman of CREDAI, Kumar Gera stated that they have put […]

Priority to Small Towns by Foreigners

Manufacturing PlantApril 05, 2010 Small Indian towns have succeeded in gaining much attention and interest of foreign investors than the metros and big cities. These small towns are being preferred more by the investors as far as the establishment of manufacturing facilities are concerned. A study which was government sponsored noticed that this has established […]

PropertyWala Crowned As The Best Real Estate Website Of The Year

PropertyWala.com has been voted India’s best real estate website for the year 2008. The Website of the Year awards are the largest annual ‘people’s choice’ website awards and have organized from last four years by MetrixLab, an online market research agency, in association with Neilsen Online. More than 1.5 million Internet users from India participated […]

Real Estate Market Has Enomous Power

Indian real estate market could reach a value of $60 billion by 2010, and become an “enormous” economic power, a Middle East developer has said. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Majed, vice chairman of Tanmiyat Group, was speaking ahead of the firm’s participation at property show Cityscape India 2008. Tanmiyat is among a group of international […]

Property price could become stable

A two-day real estate conference, Build Up 2008, which started in Bangalore on Tuesday, bore the grim realities of the global financial crisis and its impact on Indian real estate. Neither of the two major speakers — Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy and CM B S Yeddyurappa — turned up. The other prominent […]

Home Rates May Drop Upto 12%

Last week, at Mumbai’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, leading city-based real estate developers were closeted in an hour-long meeting. The agenda: to discuss ways to counter the slump in home sales which has persisted for almost an year now. The outcome: The bitter realization that the Indian developer has limited options before him to attract buyers. […]

Lehman Crisis May Pull Down Property Prices

Real estate prices are expected to soften further as the current global financial turmoil would force cash-starved builders to offer hefty discounts. The collapse of financial powerhouses like Lehman Brothers and the consequent liquidity problems will stop the inflow of fresh investments into India’s real estate sector. According to analysts, the crisis, which comes at […]

Millennium Spire Enters Into Indian Realty Sector

Millennium Spire Limited, an ‘Alternative Strategies Fund’ under the UK-based Millennium Global Umbrella, has entered the Indian realty sector unveiling its maiden platform for developments in the Indian market, Spire World. It is a platform that would drive development of mainstream green projects of Millennium Spire in the country. This has also marked the launch […]

Wipro Managed Ten Year Project From Lodha Group

Wipro Infotech has managed to get a ten year project worth Rs. 1.3 billion from Lodha Group. Wipro will provide IT and business transformation services to Lodha group in India and Middle East. Wipro InfoTech is a leading IT company in India. Lodha group has started a new path to get a premier position in […]

Prediction About Realty Trend

For now, the next few quarters could be the acid test for the sector. The stock prices of many real estate companies are under duress. DLF’s offer for a share buyback comes at a time when the stock price has been adversely hit. While one could argue that the overall sentiment is on a low, […]

NRIs Thinking Of Coming Back To India

Home sales in India might have turned slow but sales to NRIs is on boom continuously. According to Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj (JLLM), residential sales to NRIs have tripled over the last half year, from 3% to 10% of the total business. Lodha Group senior Vice President R. Kartik said, “What would happen when one […]

Ascendas Front Runner For Rs 200 Crore TVS Land In Chennai

Asia’s leading business space solutions provider Ascendas has emerged a front-runner for acquiring a 6.18 acre plot in Chennai for developing commercial space. The land at Nandambakkam, near Chennai Trade Centre, belongs to Sravanna Properties, a subsidiary of a TVS group, managed by brothers Venu Srinivasan (CMD of TVS Motors) and Gopal Srinivasan (CMD of […]

Boom Time Over:-Keki Mistry, Vice Chairman Of Housing Development Finance Corp

According to Keki Mistry, vice chairman of Housing Development Finance Corp An increase in the housing supply, rising borrowing costs and a stock market rout are bringing a five-year property boom in India to a close, according to executives at two mortgage lenders. Property prices across the country could drop as much as 15% in […]

Standardization Of Real Estate Sector

It is now become essential to standardize real estate. Builders and developers are not averse to the idea of a regulator in the real estate sector.Credai president Mr. Kumar Gera said that developers want a regulator to discourage the dishonest players from entering the sector. Mr. Gera further said that Credai has made a number […]

Houses On Rent In Bangalore

Renting a house in Bangalore is as easy as never before. Thanks to notable increase in the rate of urbanization in this part of the country. Often Bangalore is termed as the IT capital of India. Many IT professionals come to Bangalore for various training activities as many IT majors have their head quarters located […]

Real Estate Growth Impacted Due To High Interest Rates

Leading home loan lender ICICI Bank said that growth in the real estate sector has been impacted due to high interest rates and prices but maintained that there was no asset bubble in the sector. ICICI Bank Joint Managing Director Chanda Kochhar said, “Clearly there is a slowdown in the number of deals …interest rates […]

EIB’s 2nd Fund To Focus On Indian realty

Emirates Islamic Bank (EIB), a leading Islamic financial institution in the region, plans to launch a 2nd fund focused on the Indian real estate market following the doing well closing of its Danat India RIA Fund, the bank said on 3rd june. The bank said the new fund will add to a growing portfolio of […]

India Loses Top Retail Position To Vietnam

After being three years on the top, India has finally lost its position as the most preferred destination among upcoming markets for retail investment, according to the 7th annual global retail development index (GRDI) by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. The GRDI ranks countries among the thirty emerging markets on the basis of their retail […]

Will Property Price Come Down In The Near Future?

Many expect a further correction in home prices in India. Since the volumes of property transactions are going down, hence the asking price for property will also go down. Additionally, over-supply of property is posing as a major reason for the slow down in Real Estate prices.Recent media reports have also suggested the same trend. […]

BPTP Land Deal In Trouble

Well popular land deal, BPTP, might be in trouble. According to top officials in the Noida administration as well as the real estate industry, the Delhi-based real estate firm BPTP is finding it extremely difficult to raise funds for buying the land.

Indiabulls gets court permission to buy Dev Property

Indiabulls Real Estate said the Justice of High Court of the Isle of Man in England has sanctioned the proposal to acquire 100% shares of Dev Development Property (DPD). Finalization of the acquisition shall be competed by issue of fresh 13.8 crore shares of DPD and by canceling the old shares, it informed the stock […]

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.

Realty Space To Gain From Real Estate MFs

The Indian real estate sector, currently facing strong headwind due to the credit turmoil as well as high inflation, is set to get a breather from the market regulator SEBI’s move to allow Real Estate Mutual Funds, says global consultancy giant KPMG. Mr. Jai Mayani, KPMG’s Executive Director and real estate head in India, said, […]