Tag: Real Estate Investment

No Property Sales, Developers in Deep Trouble

As higher property prices hurt the buyers’ sentiments, the number of property sales has gone downward, leading the developers into deep troubles. Property buyers remain reluctant to buy any property as the property prices have reached the sky. Due to this, the property sales have fallen, affecting the developers severely.

Indian Property Show 2013 conducted in Doha

Last week Indian Property Show 2013 was conducted at La Cigale Hotel in Doha. The property show attracted the takers and the NRI investors. Non-resident Indian (NRIs) who live in Doha participated in Indian Property Show 2013 which was conducted at La Cigale Hotel last week. Thousands of NRIs visited the show.

Foreign retailers to raise more demand for office space

The demand for office space in India is expected to be driven by the foreign retailers. There are many foreign retailers who are set to expand their shops in India. Once the foreign retailers start expanding their stores in India, the commercial real estate sector will gain boost from this. Their expansion will demand more […]

Realty Sector Saw Faded Interest Of Private Equity Firms

Realty sector in India witnessed a deep fall in the investment by Private equity firms in 2012. Realty sector currently faces faded interest of private equity firms. A leading global accounting firm Grant Thornton reported that the private equity firms have lost their interest in the realty sector and infrastructure. In 2012 nearly $ 7.4 […]

Real Estate Investors To Benefit As AMP Launch India Office

With the plan to expand worldwide and provide better services to the real estate investors, AMP Technologies opens offices in India. AMP Technologies, led by Sabeer Bhatia, is a software and Services Company by nature. The firm has announced launch of its India office. The firm plans to employ around 1,000 employees by 2015. The firm […]

Nokia Head Office Sold to Real Estate Investment Firm

Real estate investment firm- Exilion is said to purchase the headquarters building of Nokia. The deal is expected to be fixed for a price of Rs.1218 Cr. The financial crises of Nokia prompted the leading handset makers to sell their head building at Espoo, in Finland. Nokia faced severe setback from its opponents like Samsung […]

Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. is to Set Office in the UAE

Indian real estate firm Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. targets UAE NRIs. The firm expects to have more Non- Resident Indians (NRIs) as their clients. Indian real estate firm Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. targeting UAE NRIs, have launched an overseas office in the UAE. The real estate firm is about to launch its first overseas office […]

Indian Realty Sector And Overview

PtIndian Real Estate Market has grown with time. The main reason for the accelerated growth can be contributed to the fact that the industry is very flexible in nature. The development has caused higher aspirations for better standards of living and a good quality of life. The rapid increase has been because of the relaxed […]

Real Estate Invesment Trusts In Asia To Rise

The number of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in the Asian Continent is going to swell over the coming 3 to 4 yrs according to HSBC. It will be because of increasing call for investments in more risk disinclined properties. REITs invest in commercial properties mainly and pay rent collected from their properties to shareholders as dividend. This is […]

Gujarat Builders To Tour Argentina And Brazil

As the realty sector in the country is picking up again the builders and developers of Gujarat want to leave no stone unturned to lure the buyers and provide them with unique world class features. Over 100 builders from across the state are planning to visit Argentina and Brazil as part of a technical tour […]

FIPB Clears Rs 100 Crore FDI

Real estate investment division of JP Morgan Chase is possibly to pick up about 18% stake in Core Hotels Ventures for one hundred crore rupees with the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearing the proposal. The suggestion of J P Morgan India Property Mauritius Company II will now go to FM P Chidambaram for final authorization.

Non-Residents Homing In Thick And Fast

With the stock markets down in India, the realty market here offers a reliable investment avenue. There are three reasons why NRIs invest in India — they remit money for family expenses or investments or for maintaining their bank accounts and investments here. According to RBI records, NRIs’ annualised remittances to India have grown from […]

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 […]

Ishaan Real Estate Loss In FY 08

Ishaan Real Estate Plc. swung to full-year pretax loss because of the cost of investment advisory fees and provision for promote fees to be paid to the investment adviser. However, it said it remains confident of continuing with the improvement made on assets development and also the pre-letting of the projects already initiated within its […]

In Indian Real Estate Prudential Forms JV Will Invest

Prudential Real Estate Investors on 17th june pronounced that it has launched a joint venture with Beekman Helix India Partners LLC (BHI) to invest in real estate in India. Through its fresh private equity real estate podium, the venture strategy to embark on a plan to make real estate funds for institutional clients. Prudential Real […]

REIT Road Cracks For Realtors

MUMBAI: It’s second-time unlucky for Indian realtors hoping to garner some desperately needed cash by floating their real estate investment trusts in Singapore. On 5th june, Indiabulls Real Estate said its plans to float a Reit to mop up $286 million is being extended. Analysts said this was due to very poor response from retail […]

HNIs Desert Sinking Stocks, Hitch To Realty PMS

Trashing the age-old belief that a fall in equities would result in flattening real estate prices, high net worth investors (HNI) are pushing wealth advisers for more exposure to realty assets. According to industry sources, the coming months are expected to witness the launch of real estate portfolio management services (PMS) by wealth managers. Though […]

Sub-prime crisis to lower investment in Asia’s property sector

The global sub-prime crisis will this year have the greatest impact on “mature” property markets in the Asia-Pacific region, leading to an overall decline in investments, international property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle predicted Tuesday. Direct commercial real estate investment in Asia Pacific reached a new high of 121 billion dollars in 2007, up 27 per […]

Talent Search In Real Estate

MUMBAI: The addition of new real estate investment products and property funds that developers are lining up are expected to exacerbate the talent crunch in real estate. “The sector is currently hiring for front-office, back-office and operational roles. The levels are comparable to the first wave of aggressive hiring witnessed in the late nineties. We […]

DLF Assets files for IPO approval in Singapore

DLF Assets, the property fund of DLF Ltd, plans to launch an initial public offer of its office trust in Singapore by June to raise over Rs 8,000 crore. DLF is India’s leading real estate company in terms of market evaluation.

Pacific Star to raise $2 Billion for Asian Real Estate

Pacific Star, a Singapore-based Asian Real Estate Investment house, says it is raising $2 billion for its new Asia Fund Select Concept Fund. The fund will be the first of its kind in real estate investment, being open-ended and targeted at institutional global investors.

ING Unit Launches Asian Real Estate Fund In Hong Kong

HONG KONG ING Group NV’s asset management unit Monday launched a fresh Asia real estate fund in Hong Kong that invests in listed real estate securities across the region. Most of the portfolio will be invested in real estate companies and real estate investment trusts, ING said. The fund is at first being offered only […]

The REIT mode to invest in property

With banks lowering housing loan rates and RBI signaling a downhill fashion in property prices, investors have a cause to smile. After all, they can now go ahead and buy that, in demand piece of property, feeling a little less culpable about not making the investment when rates were much lesser. For all those who […]

Developers shrug off REIT plans, looking out of the country

MUMBAI – Property developers are expected to turn overseas to list Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as proposed local rules favour funds and small investors rather than real estate companies, officials said. Developers are hoping to recover costs by selling properties to REITs in which they hold a controlling stake. However, draft rules, which restrict […]

India Is At 3rd Position In Realty Returns

NEW YORK: There is a very well-built interest in China and India but US real estate maintains at top of the worldwide property market ventures among foreign investors, according to the annual review by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE). There is a meaning in the findings since Washington-headquartered AFIRE always finds […]