The Only Affordable House
March 10,2010
The fact that inflation rate and overall prices of raw material are rising is becoming one of the major reasons for the property price rise.
In the last few months, developers have boosted up the property prices by 10 to 35% while offering exciting packages as a gadget to attract buyers.
The joint [...]
Madhucon Projects Ltd, a Hyderabad-based infrastructure company, has secured a $3.9 million order for a road project from the Government of Nepal.
According to a company statement, the mandate involves upgradation of Sanfebagar-Martadi road under the road improvement project of the Exim Bank of India, Mumbai.
It had commissioned its first BOT project on NH 11 on [...]
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 [...]
As the global slowdown pushed consumers to stay at home, retailers halted expansion plans and checked out of expensive high-street locations. Rental rates at high street locations across the world crashed, with the biggest crashes in Mumbai.
Among the exceptions were Bangalore’s two iconic retail hubs, Brigade Road and Commercial Street, and Kolkata’s Camac Street.
Mumbai’s [...]
Photo by suburbansliceAs per the draft guideline released by RBI, bank loans to entrepreneurs for acquiring real estate for their business would not be classified as commercial real estate (CRE) exposure. Currently, bank loans to companies for acquiring real estate for hotels and hospitality are treated as CRE exposure and attract a risk [...]
PropertywalaAfter long time of stagnation in the commercial real estate market in Mumbai, there is finally some revival. First off the block was the 10.3-acre Finlay Mill property for which there have been bids from Lodha Developers and Indiabulls Real Estate. On July 31, NTC will put the 16-acre Kohinoor Mill-1 property also on the [...]
DLF is looking to raise Rs 300-500 crore by selling its stake in a JV with Mumbai-based realtor Akruti City for a commercial project in Andheri.
DLF has already scrapped a 5 star hotel project in Prabhadevi in Mumbai with Akruti. DLF was the majority stakeholder in the project. DLF has been looking to monetise [...]
Leading shareholders of Hirco, the AIM-listed real estate fund of the Hiranandani group, are likely to support the group’s move to restructure Hirco, by merging two real estate subsidiaries with it.
According to a person close to the Hiranandani group, “The proposal to restructure has originated from shareholders. About 90% of them are supporting the proposal,” [...]
Citigroup has downgraded Indian Hotels to ‘hold’ from ‘buy’ rating with a target price of Rs 47. The downgrade is based on lower earnings estimates to take into account the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, which will lead to temporary shutdown of the company’s flagship property in Mumbai and likely lower occupancy of the company’s [...]
Real estate entrepreneur Vijay Raheja has lined up a raft of projects in Mumbai and Bangalore for the next six months to a year—braving a slump in the property market after splitting the family business with his brother in July—and started with a development targeted at the rich.
His company, V Raheja Design Construction launched its [...]
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. The [...]
Parsvnath Developers Ltd has declared that the they have won another project from Mumbai to develop a plot of land at Mahim Bus Station for commercial and residential utilization along with remodeling of existing bus station.
The project would give the Company a developable area of forty thousand square feet with a realizable value of approximately [...]
With growing foreign investments in the country’s real estate market, long-term prospects of the sector look brighter, HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh said.
“Long-term prospects of commercial real estate market continue to be positive owing to growing opportunities in sectors like healthcare, hospitality, logistics and education,” Parekh told reporters in Mumbai.
There is sufficient interest from foreign investors [...]
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. [...]
Indian logistics industry is expected to grow at 15% to 20% per annum, reaching its revenues of $385 billion by 2015, said a report prepared by Cushman and Wakefield, which term the sector as new powerhouse for the real estate sector in times to come.
As per C&W estimates, the market share of organized logistics players [...]
When a London-based real estate marketing firm recently held India property road shows in the US and UK, they were zapped to find Ahmedabad rubbing shoulders with Goa and Mumbai when it came to attracting the highest number of non-resident Indian (NRI) queries.
At a time when the appetite for Indian realty is growing in the [...]
Driving on the country’s first expressway connecting Mumbai with Pune is always a pleasure, so much so that people have started shuttling between the two cities daily. All this courtesy the swanky road’s meticulous upkeep by a company that was once a family-owned business doing road-building works for local bodies.
At the helm of it all [...]
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 [...]
Touted as a entrance to Rajasthan, Bhiwadi, falling in Alwar district and bordering Haryana is a key industrial growth centre in the NCR with over 2500 operational industries. Bhiwadi enjoys huge location advantage with IGI Airport, New Delhi, just fifty five kilo meter away and Gurgaon forty kilo meter away. Being close to Delhi and [...]
US-based real estate management, investment and development consortium, JNB Investments LLC, has forayed into the Indian hospitality market, with plans to set up 50 hotels in the country by 2015. The company will invest about Rs 2000 Crore in the development, which will be collected through internal accruals and other sources of funding.
JNB will develop [...]
An uninspiring opening and an even worse close towards the end of the day marked Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust’s debut on the Singapore Exchange on 11th june.
During the day, it went down to as low as 0.88 cents and closed 10% below the issue price of S$1. The stock could not breach its issue price [...]
As new government policies drive progress towards addressing climate change and other key environmental issues, the real estate markets around Asia and the world will change its look quickly and adopt green building concept, both in developing new buildings and improving existing ones, .
This transformation will be driven by various combinations of regulation, government incentives [...]
Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd plans to invest 10 billion rupees to expand its retail business in the next 2-½ years. Mr. Gagan Banga, Group spokeman said that the real estate firm, which also houses the group’s retail and power businesses, expects lease rentals of 10 billion rupees from two of its properties under development in [...]
