Category Archives: City

Office demand & rents projected to grow in 2016

Rents and capital values for prime offices are expected to grow more rapidly in 2016, according to the study by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a standards setting body for the real estate and construction sectors. “Office demand for the last several quarters has been improving and is expected to continue in the… Read More »

Piramal to venture in commercial real estate in 2016-17

Piramal Fund Management Pvt. Ltd, the investment arm of Piramal Group, will start funding commercial office projects. It is one of the largest lenders and investors in residential real estate and already has a loan book and equity investments worth Rs.22,000 crore in the residential space alone, plans to deploy another Rs.5,000 crore in commercial office… Read More »

Reserve price of Rs 150 crore for Kingfisher House

Kingfisher House is to be auctioned on March 17, 2015 to retrieve part of Rs 6,963 Cr loans due from the non-operational airline. Creditors have set a reserve price of Rs 150 Cr. The 2,401-square-metre property was taken under possession by SBICAP Trustee Company in February 2015. The e-auction will be held under the SARFAESI… Read More »

Rs 150cr contract to JSPL from Unnati Fortune Group for commercial tower in Noida

Unnati Fortune Group, a Noida based real estate firm has awarded a contract of Rs 150 crore to Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL). This is for the construction of a retail-cum-office tower in Noida’s sector-144 which is a part of the 25-acre land parcel owned by Unnati World project in Noida. The project has been planned and… Read More »

Rise in rentals of NCR’s Cybercity, Bengaluru’s Koramangla due to growing demand from startups

According to real estate services firm CBRE, there is a 10% increase in rentals for commercial space over the past one year. The top five micro markets that saw increase in rentals are Cybercity in National Capital Region, Koramangla in Bengaluru, Andheri East and Goregaon in Mumbai and Kukatpally, Manikonda in Hyderabad. The cities that led… Read More »

Blackstone in talks to invest Rs 450 crore in Salarpuria’s Hyderabad office property

New York-based Blackstone Group is in advanced discussions with Salarpuria Sattva Group to invest about Rs 450 crore in its upcoming, 30-acre commercial property in Hyderabad, three individuals aware about the development said. One of them mentioned that this would be a pure equity deal and is expected to be settled in the next few… Read More »

Phoenix Mills Ltd to revamp two malls in UP

Mumbai based Phoenix Mills Ltd has taken over the full equity and management control of three properties run under a partnership from the Upal group, its JV partner. President-West, Phoenix Mills Ltd, Rajendra Kalkar said that 15-20 new stores would be added to each of the malls in Lucknow and Bareilly, with many of them… Read More »

CIDCO gets bids totaling Rs 256 crore in auction of 8 plots in Navi Mumbai

CIDCO, sold total 8 land parcels in Navi Mumbai in an auction for total Rs 256 crore on Thursday, said two people familiar with the development. City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO), which is Navi Mumbai’s development authority auctioned a commercial plot in CBD Belapur and seven residential-cum-commercial usage plots at Nerul.… Read More »