Category Archives: City

RMZ to buy remaining 50% stake in Essar Group’s Equinox Business Park in Mumbai

In one of the largest real estate transactions of this year, RMZ will acquire the remaining 50 per cent stake in Essar Group’s commercial project Equinox Business Park in Bandra-Kurka Complex, Mumbai, by the end of this year. The company will pay Rs 2,400 crore for the complete buyout, which will be funded by Qatar… Read More »

Commercial realty sales rose 9% in 2016

If demonetisation severely impacted the residential real estate segment in 2016 with sales dropping by 9% from 2015, the commercial real estate segment, backed by demand for office space, saw sales climbing 9% in 2016 over the previous year, according to real estate consulting firm. In a report, the property consultant said the year witnessed… Read More »

IT, start-up hub Bengaluru tops dynamic city list

Bringing another feather in the cap of IT and start-up hub Bengaluru, it has been rated as the world’s most dynamic city in the annual report. By doing so, it outranked US cities such as Silicon City (3), Austin (7) and Boston (9). Apart from Bengaluru, Hyderabad (5), Pune (13), Chennai (17), Mumbai (25) and… Read More »

E-commerce boom in Bangalore over? Realty share in office space absorption plunges

The e-commerce boom seems to be over as far as real estate space absorption is concerned in Bengaluru. Although Bengaluru witnessed a strong growth in office market transactions in 2016 with the absorption of 11.4 million sq ft, the share of e-commerce in the total office space declined drastically. The share of e-commerce was just… Read More »

Demonetisation Delivers Massive Blow To Real Estate Market, Developers Say Sales Down By Half

Property market, long considered a black money safe haven, seems to have taken a big hit from demonetisation, with developers seeing their sales drop by about 50 per cent in the last three months and now pinning their hopes on buyers coming to market with ‘white money’. The genuine buyers in the residential market, on… Read More »