Category Archives: City

Microsoft scouts for 1.1 million sq ft office space in Bengaluru

Microsoft is scouting for 1.1 million sq ft office space in Bengaluru to consolidate and expand its business in India as part of chief executive Satya Nadella’s plans to tap into the local market and engineering talent. The American technology company has already looked at properties in Embassy GolfLinks and North Bengaluru but is yet to… Read More »

Infosys gets govt nod to set up SEZ in Bengaluru

The government has approved the proposal of Infosys to set up an IT/ITeS special economic zone in Bengaluru in an area spread over 4 hectares. The decision was taken by an inter-ministerial Board of Approval (BoA), headed by Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia, at its meeting on April 28. “The Board noted that the developer is in possession… Read More »

DLF to bring malls under SPVs

DLF, the country’s largest real estate developer, is planning to bring its mall assets under separate special purpose vehicles (SPVs) so that it can sell stakes in them and convert them into real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the future. The company could raise as much as $1 billion through this route, a executive aware of… Read More »

Indiabulls Real Estate raises stake in Singapore biz trust IPIT to 51.18%

Indiabulls Real Estate (IBREL) on Wedneaday said the company now has a majority stake of 51.18 per cent in Singapore-listed business trust IPIT after acquisition of 2.77 crore shares by its subsidiary. The company earlier had 47.5 per cent stake in Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust (IPIT), which has a portfolio of over three million sq ft… Read More »

Tallest govt building: A 61-storey headquarter for Surat civic body on the cards

The Chinese delegation comprising government firms that are into construction business had visited Surat last year and claimed that they could construct this fully environment-friendly skyscraper in very short time using pre-fabricated technology. SMC officials said that they are checking the feasibility for this project on the 22,000 sq m land on the Ring Road where… Read More »

Lenders to revalue Kingfisher House, hope to sell it shortly

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 »

Raheja to invest Rs2,000 crore on commercial space in Navi Mumbai

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 »