A consortium of US-based investors that developed First International Finance Center (FIFC), a landmark commercial building in Mumbai’s financial district, Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), plans to sell its stake in the property for around Rs. 1,500 crore, said two people aware of the development. Around 300,000 sq. ft of the total 657,000 sq. ft office complex… Read More »
A global real estate facility will open its first office in India, a top company executive has said. Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions (GIS) will establish its base in the fourth quarter of this year in Mumbai. “Mumbai will be our Indian headquarter. We will have people on the ground in major cities,” Brookfield GIS executive managing director… Read More »
Real estate firm Raheja Universal Ltd is looking to sell land parcels, totaling over 600 acres located outside the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), to fund its forthcoming projects as it focuses its business in Mumbai and its suburbs. MMR refers to the region in Maharashtra consisting of Mumbai and its neighbouring towns, including Thane, Navi Mumbai… Read More »
Mumbai office property market witnessed a 21% on-quarter rise in leasing activity at 1.4 million sq ft in the quarter ended June, said a property consultancy in a report. Demand for office space was largely concentrated across peripheral micro-markets. Majority of office space demand in the city was led by corporate occupiers from the BFSI… Read More »
An Australia-based construction giant has cracked a deal worth $169.5 million with an Indian company to build a retail and hospitality development project in Mumbai. CIMIC Group Company Leighton Asia, through its subsidiary Leighton India Contractors, has entered into an alliance agreement to deliver phases two and three of the Maker Maxity project in Mumbai. According to… Read More »
The MMRDA will allow apartments to come up on plots reserved for commercial establishments in BKC. MMRDA is the special planning authority for BKC, which has emerged as the city’s leading commercial business district over the last decade. The area houses several important government offices and key private financial institutes like ICICI Bank and Crisil. “We have… Read More »
In India’s largest deal so far in the commercial property space, Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management is set to acquire Hiranandani Group’s offices and retail space in Powai, Mumbai, for around $1billion, or about Rs 6,700 crore, two people familiar with the development said. Hiranandani Group, a partnership between Hiranandani brothers Niranjan and Surendra, owns 4.5… Read More »
Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, will witness a sharp drop in economic activity pertaining to the manufacturing and construction sector over the next two decades. In the city’s revised development plan, planners have projected that the stake of these two sectors in Mumbai’s overall economic chart will go down by 11 percentage points — from 31… Read More »
In what is seen as a boost to commercial real estate, which is currently in bad shape, the revised draft of the development plan (DP) has proposed an FSI of 5 for office spaces in Mumbai. According to the revised DP, any plot in commercial, residential or industrial zones, measuring more than 3,000 sqm, can avail… Read More »
In 2014, Ceejay House, located in Mumbai’s Worli area and having a gorgeous view of the Arabian Sea, had virtually no space to lease out. But in the past one year, a fourth of the building is understood to be vacant, with several tenants having moved out. At the peak of the real estate boom in… Read More »
