Monthly Archives: January 2008

RBI’s judgment has spooked real estate cos

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) assessment not to slash interest rates has spooked real estate business facing the brunt of a housing business slowdown caused by the high cost of mortgage financing. RBI, on Tuesday, decided to keep interest rates unchanged in its third-quarter monetary policy review. Real estate companies were expecting a [...]

Uppal Public Offer Rs 3000

Uppal Housing Ltd has planned to raise Rs 3000 crore fund through IPO i.e. Initial Public Offering of shares and pre-initial public offering placement this year for its ongoing projects. This plan will come to reality in second half of this year. Mr. Ajay Mangal, Director, Finance, Uppal Group said, “We are looking to dilute [...]

Sobha Developers Plan for Residential Projects

Sobha Developers is coming up with a residential project of 156-unit on the outer ring road Hebbal in north Bangalore. The project coming up on a 4.5 acre patch located behind the BEL corporate office on the outer ring road will attract a market-estimated investment of over Rs 100 crore. Mr. Raghav Menon, [...]

Parsvnath Developers Spread Wings

21 January 2008, New Delhi: Parsvnath Developers has announced an investment of Rs 60,000 crore in coming five years in diversified areas such as SEZs, airports, express ways and retails business. Mr. Pradeep Jain, Chairman of Parsvnath Developers said, “We shall be bidding for upcoming airports such as Udaipur, Greater Noida, Maharashtra and other states. [...]

Street Of Dreams Of Emaar-MFG

19 January 2008. Emaar-MGF today introduced its new concept of style guide. This concept is named as “Street of Dreams”. It offers the buyers a preview of their concept villas, penthouse and apartments. Main aim of street of dreams is to provide different varieties to its customers. For [...]

Reliance IPO Gets A Major Start

Jan 15’ 08, Mumbai. Reliance Power’s mega Initial Public Offering (IPO) worth Rs 11,700 crore was fully subscribed within minutes of the start of book building process. In fact, it was oversubscribed. It has received bids five times more than expectations. According to the market analysers, Reliance IPO will start with [...]

Ispat Industry Sells Flats in Mumbai

18 January 2008, New Delhi. Ispat Industries is informally entering in to real estate industry. Ispat industry is known as a major steel producer industry and now they are planning to sell its property at Mumbai’s Peddar Road at a rate of about Rs 50,000 per sq. ft. Mr. Vinod garg, [...]

DLF IKEA Joint Venture

DLF is discussing with Ikea, world’s largest home furnishings retailer, for a bid to bring the Swedish brand into India.  The developer is looking into the prospects of a joint venture with Ikea on a sharing ratio that was yet to be decided by the time this information had been published.  The purpose of this [...]

AV Birla Group Starts Private Equity Business

AV Birla Group is entering private equity business. It is expected that the first investment will be made within a fortnight. It is doubtful if the Mumbai based group, with presence in aluminum, copper, carbon black and financial services, will raise capital from outside for the proposed private equity activities. It seems [...]

Real Estate Growth Results In Growth Of Indian Economy

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Kamal Nath said that rapidly increasing real estate sector signifies the varying face of India, while addressing NATCON (National Convention) 2008. He said that in recent years service sector has directed Indian economy. Considering the recent economy growth, Mr Kamal spoke on the requirement of creating international standard [...]

Foreign Direct Investment might show sharp growth

Real estate is expecting $400-500 million worth of FDI flow. These expectations are being guided by the going on trends in investment industry. Investors and developers are showing their interests in metros as well as in smaller cities too. Investments are going on in Bangalore, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Pune because of the [...]

Indian Property Exhibition held in Kuwait

Jan 09, 2008: Indian property is now in demand outside the India too. All India property exhibition will be held at the Kuwait Ramada Hotel on Jan 11 & 12, 2008. Various leading builders and housing finance organizations from India will take part. Large number of residential and commercial properties from all over India [...]