Monthly Archives: July 2008

Red Fort Capital Will Invest Rs 40 Billion In India

Red Fort Capital, a Cayman Islands-based private equity fund focused on real estate development, is in the advanced stages of negotiations with six developers for projects worth Rs 40 billion in the metropolitan areas across India.
The fund will be developing an information technology park in Kolkata with Godrej Properties, with Red Fort holding a 49 [...]

Ishaan Real Estate

Ian Hendersen, Chairman, Ishaan Real Estate, said, “Investment in the initial portfolio of assets is being completed, largely according to a plan, and the increased net asset value replicates the strong demand for our properties and the huge potential of the Indian property market”. IRE is the holding company of K Raheja Corp floated in [...]

Impact Of Rate Hike On Real Estate

Real estate companies observes their cost of borrowing rising by 1% age point as the central bank has increased the repo rate by 0.5 % and cash reserve ratio by 0.25 %.
The rate hike will push up the corporate lending rates. This, in turn, is anticipated to further strain the balance sheets of realty companies, [...]

Banking And Realty Stocks Likely To Feel The Heat

RBI decisions to hike two key policy rates are expected to affect stocks of companies from sectors like banking & financial services, and real estate more than any other sector since these sectors are more vulnerable to higher interest rates than others . However, given that most stocks from these sectors are already badly hammered [...]

Rentals in Pune Up By 300% In Last Three Year

Pune seems to be gradually losing its cost advantage among software companies. Many think that the rentals in the city are on their way up and could be a big deterrent for further investment.
Sunil Patil, president (Pune region), UBICS, a software company of the UB group, believes that the rentals may spoil the show. “Rentals [...]

Delhi Township And Delta Township Real Estate Are New Investments Opportunities

Delta Township just built a brand new library that recently opened. It has plenty of events being offered this year for all ages. Delta has been a thriving and dynamic community that supports education, planned growth, safety and a positive community.
Delhi Township has mastered the art of balancing development and quality of life. Delta Township [...]

Small Developers Selling Their Land Due To Cash Crunch

Due to the depressed real estate market, all projects of small developers (grade C & D) are up for sale as no development has started because of severe cash crunch. And the big developers (grade A & B) are said to be scouting for these kinds of projects as they are proving to be more [...]

Ambala Hot Destination For Real Estate

AMBALA : A historical district of Haryana, may still be longing for true genesis of its nomenclature but the city is slowly opening up to real estate investments that were non-existence till a couple of years ago.
The city, divided between Ambala Cantt and Ambala City, is bringing up a few group housing schemes and commercial [...]

Uppal Group Tied With JW Marriott

Real estate developer Uppal Group has tied up with hospitality major JW Marriott for developing and managing two five star hotels at an investment of Rs 500 crore.
“We will be investing about Rs 500 crore for developing both properties which will be managed by international chain JW Marriott Hotel,” Uppal Group CEO (SEZ and Hotels) [...]

Suncity Projects To Invest Rs 2000 Crore

Realty player Suncity Projects today announced its plans to develop four retail cities in the country with an investment of around Rs 2,000 crore by 2011.The retail cities, under the brand name ‘Jewel of India’ would come up at Greater Noida, Indore, Jaipur and Mohali.
The first of these cities would become operational in Jaipur by [...]

Stagnation In Chadigarh Real Estate

Chandigarh real estate is witnessing testing times. On one hand, there are more investments pouring in the segment and on the other side property buyers and sellers are not very enthusiastic about property transactions.

Profit Zoom Of Sobha

The Board of directors of Sobha Developers Limited approved the unaudited financial results of the company for the quarter-ended June, this year.
Sobha Developers recorded a 24% growth in net profit during the first quarter of the 2008-09 financial year. Its net profit for the quarter stood at Rs 50.5 crores, up from Rs 40.8 crores [...]

Yatra Capital Invests $7 Million In Kolkata

Yatra Capital Ltd, the Euronext listed real estate company, has invested $7 million for a 40% stake in Jalan Intercontinental Hotels Pvt Ltd, a company that is building a two hundred room business hotel in Kolkata. The hotel will be supervised by Indian Hotel Ltd under the Taj Gateway brand.
The hotel will be built on [...]

Developers Rooting For NRIs Seeking To Come Back Home

Higher rate of returns in real estate investments in India, projects that comply with international standards, greater affordability, apart from emotional reasons like ‘owning a piece of homeland’ were driving the NRI segment growth in the real estate sector in the India.
“Ma, is Chennai like New Jersey”, asks a little toddler in a catchy overseas [...]

Slowdown In International Real Estate Transactions

Credit crunch and economic uncertainty have taken their toll on the global property market, with transaction volumes falling by 46% in the first quarter, according to a property report.
Investment throughout Asia and other emerging markets continued to grow, as sales of major commercial properties globally totaled $154 billion (Dh565bn) in first quarter against $283bn of [...]

Alpha One Mega Project In Amritsar

Delhi-based real estate developer and asset management company, Alpha G:Corp, key coalition associate in the pan-India conglomerate. G:Corp, has signed up a joint venture with property-owner in Punjab to conceptualize, design and develop the impressive Alpha One mega project in Amritsar. It will be spread over twenty five acres on G.T. Road. Alpha G:Corp was [...]

Pune Real Estate Witnesses Investment Explosion

Pune property market is one of the most active segments in Western India. Private property developers along with local property builders and civic authorities are pouring in more investments in the city.
Recently, Milestone Capital Advisors announced an investment of Rs300 crore for commercial real estate development in Pune. Milestone is a fund house and focuses [...]

Real Estate Beauty Festival

Summer is over but the temperature is still rising, particularly at the Philippine Real Estate Festival as it presents 24 gorgeous young women vying for the title of Miss Real Estate Philippines on July 25 at the SMX Mall of Asia.
The second annual beauty pageant intensely screened over 200 young women before coming up with [...]

REMFs Having Problem Due To Unclear Tax Rule

At a time when the real estate sector is hard-pressed for funds, the real estate mutual funds (REMFs) are yet to take off, in spite of being granted permission 3 months ago. This is due to unclear rules about their tax treatment.
REMFs, which were touted as key instrument enabling retail investors to take part in [...]

Builders Offer Personal Touch To Encourage Buyers

Faced with a slowdown and increased competition, real estate players are trying to re-invent themselves by focusing on ‘personalized selling’.
Refusing to be lost in the clutter of ‘look-alike offerings’ in the real-estate market, a section of leading developers engaged in constructing properties in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Goa and Chennai is trying to carve out a [...]