ArthVeda Fund Management, part of financial services conglomerate Wadhawan Global Capital, is planning to raise $1 billion to invest in affordable housing projects across the country, said a top company official. The asset management company recently received $250 million commitment from Qatar Holding, part of Qatar sovereign fund, for its affordable, low and middle income… Read More »
Godrej Properties has invested Rs 280 crore across two deals in Bangalore and Thane so far from its $275 million residential real estate platform formed in association with Dutch pension fund APG Asset Management. The platform named Godrej Residential Investment Program II made its first investment by acquiring 80% of the equity share capital in… Read More »
Private equity investments in the real estate sector increased by 26 percent during 2016 and touched a nine-year high of nearly Rs 40,000 crore, according to property consultant Cushman & Wakefield. Mumbai saw the highest share of inflow at 32 percent of the total private equity investments in real estate (PERE). “PERE inflows in 2016… Read More »
Piramal Fund Management (PFM), financial services arm of Piramal Enterprises, has sanctioned investments worth about Rs 2,000 crore within three months of launching lease rental discounting (LRD) for completed commercial assets that include office and retail space, it said on Wednesday. Of this, it recently approved two investments under LRD against assets in Mumbai and… Read More »
GVK-led Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) has won the bid for the Navi Mumbai international airport, edging out rival GMR Group. GVK, which runs the Mumbai and Bengaluru airports, offered 12.6% in revenue share to the project implementing authority, the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) of Maharashtra. The contract would be awarded to the company… Read More »
Coworking space provider Innov8 has raised an undisclosed amount in an angel round enabled by LetsVenture and Venture Catalysts. The round saw investments by prominent angel investors such as Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Rajan Anandan of Google, Kunal Shah of FreeCharge, Girish Mathrubootham of Freshdesk and Anand Chandrasekeran of Facebook. The Delhi-based company plans… Read More »
Mumbai office sale registrations contracted on a quarterly basis since the beginning of 2016 to the lowest in the last quarter. The registrations dipped to nearly 1/3rd of the Q1 levels in Q4 – the quarter of demonetization. Both no. of registrations and transaction volume dipped by 55-60% in Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) comparisons for Q4 ’16. Even… Read More »
After building a sizeable residential portfolio, India’s largest realty firm in terms of sales, Lodha Developers Pvt. Ltd, is looking at commercial real estate for its next level of growth. The firm is planning to build around 9 million sq. ft of office space, 1 million sq. ft of retail space and a warehousing and… Read More »
Strengthening business confidences resulted in net absorption of office space across the top eight cities to 34 million square feet (msf) during 2016, according to an international property consultant Cushman & Wakefield. Of the total uptake of office space, nearly 40% of the total net absorption took place in the last quarter of 2016. Bengaluru… Read More »
This year’s Investment Prospects survey from Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC shows a strong shift away from last year’s favorites, which featured core markets in Japan and Australia, in favor of emerging-market destinations. The survey also found steep declines in the popularity of gateway cities with the exception of Shanghai which has seen a… Read More »
