Tag Archives: India

Realty Investors Begin To Challenge Builder Rates

According to experts, the killing in stock markets, where realty stocks have taken a beating along with the rest, may speed up the slowdown in the real estate market over the next six months.
Balaji Rao, managing director, Starwood Capital India Advisers, said, “The market is already slowing as high property prices have affected sales”.

Software For The Real Estate Industry

Bangalore: Bangalore-based In4velocity Systems, India’s foremost real estate and property development software firm, pronounced that Mumbai-based Kanakia Spaces, a well-known name in the real estate industry, has successfully implemented its market leading ERMS application, In4Suite, across its different construction projects over the period of six months. The overall deal value is expected to be above [...]

Indiabulls Extend The Closing Date Of The Issue By A Day

Laxmi Mittal-backed Indiabulls Real Estate managed to raise $259 million on the Singapore Stock Exchange, a day after the scheduled closing of its REIT’s issue, Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust.
India’s fourth largest real estate developer sold 353 million shares at $1 per unit, out of which Lakshmi Mittal had committed 91 million shares.
The sale was to [...]

Indian Firm In S And P Asia Property 40 Index

The sharp fall in shares of realty majors in India has meant that not a single Indian real estate company figures in Standard & Poor’s Asia Property 40 Index.
The index comprises forty Asian realty companies listed in terms of market capitalization, an S&P release said on Monday. From a year high of 13848.09 on 8th [...]

Dubai-Based Real Estate Major Looks To India

Dubai-based real estate major Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) is likely to enter India for which it is in the process of identifying a local partner.
The country’s estimated 16 billion dollar realty sector, which has already attracted UAE-based players like Emmar, Limitless, Nakheel and SmartCity, has been identified by MAF as a ‘market to be in’.

VCFs, FVCIs Ready For Real Estate Sector

The real estate sector has hogged the attention among favored investment avenues for a host of venture capital funds (VCFs) and foreign venture capital investors (FVCI) during the preceding fiscal. Amongst different sectors, together with IT and telecom, real estate alone attracted twenty percent of the total investments made by both VCFs and FVCIs during [...]

Khaleeji raises $164m for India venture

Khaleeji Commercial Bank has collected $163.5 million of equity from investors across GCC for Danat India Investment Company.
Danat will invest in a real estate development project near New Delhi, targeted at the expanding middle class of India.
India, presently one of the foremost rising markets is predicted to be the world’s 3rd biggest economy by 2050, [...]

DTZ Appoints New CEO

Global real estate consultant DTZ announced on 21st may that it has appointed Anshul Jain the CEO of India operations with effect from August 1.
“As we continue to successfully grow our India business, I am delighted to welcome Anshul to guide the team. The move demonstrates DTZ’s promise to the India story as we continue [...]

BSEL to float Malaysian arm to execute projects

Mumbai-based firm will invest Rs 18,000 crore in next twelve years. BSEL Infrastructure Realty plans to set up a company in Malaysia to execute its operations in that country.
The Mumbai-based company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Malaysia’s Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) to develop properties in Johar Bharu region of Malaysia. The [...]

Royal Palms Plans Star Hotels In Main Cities

Real estate and hospitality major Royal Palms India will invest two thousand four hundred crore rupees in the coming two years for setting up four- and five-star hotels in big cities in the country. The company is planning to build four luxury hotels in Mumbai.

Double whammy for high-end luxury realty market

The high-end luxury real estate market is facing a double whammy. The demand from domestic buyers has already dried down and now even non-resident Indians (NRIs), who constituted a significant market for luxury real estate developers, are developing cold feet.
With the US property market witnessing a correction due to subprime crisis, the NRIs are expecting [...]

Hilton Group is coming back to India

Mumbai, Apr 16 With the end of its association with The Oberoi group, Hilton Hotels Corporation is on top gear to make a comeback in the Indian market. The company today has not even a single property in the country courtesy the fallen apart tie-up with The Oberoi Group. Now, left all alone in the [...]

Impact Of Rising Interest Rates On Real Estate

Growing real estate prices are resulting in a decline in the demand for home loans. The rising interest rate is a additional factor.
Even though Indian realty market is observing a compounding growth, owning a home is still a tough dream for a lot of middle class Indians. Previously (2002-2006), the trouble-free availability of home loans [...]

India- A preferred Real Estate market for Global Investor

According to a survey conducted by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) India is one of the most preferred property market among foreign investors globally.
This report is from January/February 2008 (AFIRE) news letter. India is preferred by 16.7 per cent of the respondents favoring the country as the most fancied place for [...]

Vishal Retail to enter Real Estate

Vishal Retail is planning to enter real estate sector. Confirming this development Manmohan Aggarwal, CEO, Corporate Affairs, Vishal Retail told Business Standard that the new venture would be launched either in the second half of the current year or early next year.
He revealed that company is also planning to acquire 1 crore sq ft area [...]

Yoo By Starck And Panchshil Realty To Develop Prestigious Yoo Project in Pune

European real estate giant Yoo by Starck expands into Indian real estate market, designing their first project for India, which will be developed by Panchshil Realty. The proposed condominium project will locate in Pune, which is on a few hours drive from Mumbai, India’s commercial and financial capital. In India, luxury projects are high on [...]

India Faces Housing Slowdown

The withdrawal of an IPO by a big property developer in India earlier this month was just the latest sign of the growing difficulties companies world-wide are having tapping capital markets.
But the message for the sizzling Indian real-estate development business was worse: get ready for a slowdown.
Emaar MGF Land Pvt. Ltd. said it pulled its [...]

Real estate developer making ground on Sobha Daffodil in Dubai

Sobha Group, one of the leading real estate developers in India with many realty projects in Dubai, has broken ground on its first residential development in Dubai. Building work started on Sobha Daffodil at Jumeirah Village on 28th January, 2008 following a ground breaking ceremony.
Ajay Rajendran, Vice Chairman, Sobha Group, told thatSobha Daffodil will marks their [...]

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. [...]