The commerce ministry is examining a proposal to declare an international finance centre (IFC) in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Centre (BKC), BJP MP and member of Maharashtra task force Poonam Mahajan said. A decision will be taken in six to eight months and India could well end up with two IFCs in neighbouring states as Maharashtra… Read More »
Developers constructing luxury commercial spaces in Mumbai, the country’s most expensive real estate market, are set to cash in on a series of steps outlined in the draft Development Plan 2014-34 being prepared by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. After permitting higher FSI up to five times the plot size for certain categories of commercial buildings,… Read More »
A new survey on the average age of the most expensive office space in 10 Asia Pacific cities ranks Mumbai at number four, with most buildings in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). Beijing and Shanghai have the newest office stock followed by Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Delhi-NCR, Seoul, Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. The survey, which compares 30… Read More »
The auction of the Dunlop-owned Mumbai property may not be a cakewalk following a number of litigations and the West Bengal government’s takeover of Dunlop India in February. Though ICICI Bank, which is auctioning the property, has got a clearance from the Supreme Court, litigations and takeover may play a spoilsport, feel property consultants. The bank… Read More »
Godrej Properties is aiming to launch 15 new projects, including one in Noida, and sell its completed commercial assets worth Rs 1,500 crore during this fiscal as the realty firm seeks to achieve higher growth. Godrej Properties achieved a record sales bookings of Rs 5,038 crore in 2015-16 fiscal, up 88 per cent from previous year,… Read More »
Having failed once to sell the Kingfisher House for recovering their loans, banks have begun a fresh valuation process for auctioning the headquarters of the Vijay Mallya’s long defunct Kingfisher Airlines. “A revaluation process has begun and will be over by the next week. The property will put on the block again at the earliest,” a… Read More »
Bullish on the rising demand for commercial real estate, Mumbai-based developer K Raheja Corp. is planning to invest around Rs.2,000 crore in acquiring land and building 6 million sq. ft of commercial space in the next two-and-a-half years in Navi Mumbai. The company currently operates three information technology (IT) parks in Navi Mumbai under the brand… Read More »
After bulge bracket mall deals by Blackstone and GIC in Mumbai, global investors Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Macquarie are looking to buy malls in the country, said executives involved in the talks. “CPPIB has started talking to mall owners while Macquarie has shown interest in buying malls. All these investors prefer fixed yields.… Read More »
K Raheja Corp is working on plans to build two infotech parks totalling 6 million sq ft leasable space in Mumbai and Pune over the next two years. This will add to the existing portfolio of the company, which is India’s second largest developer of business parks that span completely leased 20 million sq ft office… Read More »
After investment banks, Maker Maxity, the plush office complex owned by Mukesh Ambani and Maker group in Mumbai’s famed Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) is also becoming home to global sovereign and pension funds. Marquee names such as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Singapore’s GIC and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have taken up spaces in the… Read More »
