Tag Archives: Residential

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 loses his job in the US? The downturn is scaring many NRIs who fear job cuts”. JLLM’s Raminder Grover said, “There is a renewed interest in selling abroad”.

Sobha Developers has viewed the share of NRI sales go up from five percent to ten percent of its sales. Sobha Developers Managing Director J. C. Sharma said, “In the last six months, we have been selling about twenty five thousand square feet a month to NRIs”.

Many NRIs have been planning of coming back to India and many of them are making safety investments. Over the last few months, Lodha has seen twenty-five percent rise in its sales to NRIs.

Realty: Difficult To Buy And Rent

Realty prices might be showing signs of easing, yet its tough to buy a house. Prices are still high and loans are getting expensive. Renting a property is also getting dearer.

According to analysts and developers residential rentals are hardening, registering a 10% growth. The demand for rented residential space is high as India has very low residential rental yields hovering around 3-6%

At the same time home loan interest rates are around 11% to 13%. While new property sales are slowing down, rentals are showing an upwards trend. Read More »

Blackstone Real Estate Partners To Invest In Synergy

Blackstone Real Estate Partners announced that it agreed to invest approximately 18 million dollars for a minority stake with board representation in Synergy Property Development Services Private Ltd.

Synergy, Formed in 2003, is now one of the top projects and construction management companies in India and currently has over 500 employees across nine Indian offices, with international offices in Dubai and Kualalumpur. Read More »

Mahindra’s Jaipur SEZ To Become Partly Operational From July

The Special Economic Zone being developed by Mahindras at Jaipur will become partly operational in July with first group of clients moving in, a top official said on Friday.

Mr. Arun Nanda, vice-chairman of the company told that Mahindra Lifespace Developers, the real estate and infrastructure development arm of the USD 6 billion Mahindra group, has also started buying land at Karla, near Pune, for an SEZ project.

He said that the company has managed to get a premium of 20 to 40% over the current market rate for some of its residential projects in Mumbai and Faridabad.

He said that the company has an estimated land bank of 35 million square feet across the country and expanding to new places like Nashik and Nagpur.

Mr. Nanda said that earlier people were talking about the long gestation periods faced by the company. But now onwards, the company will see far more accelerated growth. The story is now unfolding. There will be unlocking of profits.

The company has 1.5 million square feet of space under construction at present.

Referring to the SEZs, he said that the company has the distinction of promoting the first successful SEZ in private sector at Chennai, now known as Mahindra World City. The second SEZ at Jaipur is progressing well and the first group of clients, which includes Infosys, will move in in July. It would take couple of more years for the entire SEZ to become operational.

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 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 »

Ayala Penetrates Indian Property Market

ARCH Capital Asian Partners L.P., the private equity real estate fund of Ayala group, has formed a JV with the Mahindra Group of India for the development of a residential community in Chennai. Read More »

Rakindo To Set Up $1.5 Billion Integrated Township

Real estate developer Rakindo Developers has unveiled its plan to build a $1.5 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) integrated township at Coimbatore. It is expected to be ready for launch by the last quarter of 2008. Mr Prasad Koneru, MD, Rakindo Developers, told that the flagship project of Rakindo Developers in the texcity will be developed over 1,000 acres with an 18-hole golf course as the centerpiece.

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