In a rare sale deal in South Mumbai’s prime business district of Nariman Point, The Indian Express media group has bought 15,645 sq ft of space in the Mafatlal Centre building for Rs 34 crore or Rs 21,732 a sq ft from Japanese company Mitsui & Co, according to registered documents. The deal includes four… Read More »
Flipkart has substantially scaled down its need for a huge office space in Bengaluru, which it leased almost two years back, as e-commerce companies in the country struggle to find new avenues of growth and raise fresh funds amid sharp cuts in their valuations. India’s biggest e-commerce company is now looking to lease just 0.83… Read More »
Total volume of Lease expiries in Bangalore is expected to cross 9 msf in 2017. Witnessing quarterly increase since beginning of year, total area of lease expiries in Q4 2017 is expected to be above 3 msf. The 200+ leases expiring in 2017 have average monthly rent of INR 57/sf/month and add upto nearly 56 crores… Read More »
Godrej Properties has invested Rs 280 crore across two deals in Bangalore and Thane so far from its $275 million residential real estate platform formed in association with Dutch pension fund APG Asset Management. The platform named Godrej Residential Investment Program II made its first investment by acquiring 80% of the equity share capital in… Read More »
Total no. of transactions decreased Y-o-Y in 2016. However, no. of 10,000+ sf transactions increased. This led to in 24% increase in total absorption Y-o-Y; majorly contributed by 10,000 + sf deals in 2016. *Grade A data only
Piramal Fund Management (PFM), financial services arm of Piramal Enterprises, has sanctioned investments worth about Rs 2,000 crore within three months of launching lease rental discounting (LRD) for completed commercial assets that include office and retail space, it said on Wednesday. Of this, it recently approved two investments under LRD against assets in Mumbai and… Read More »
Embassy Industrial Parks, a joint venture between realty developer Embassy Group and private equity firm Warburg Pincus, will invest Rs 350 crore to build a 1.1-million sq ft industrial park at Chakan, Pune. The project will mainly comprise built-to-suit factories ranging from 50,000 sq ft to 2 lakh sq ft in size, Embassy Industrial Parks’… Read More »
Mumbai office sale registrations contracted on a quarterly basis since the beginning of 2016 to the lowest in the last quarter. The registrations dipped to nearly 1/3rd of the Q1 levels in Q4 – the quarter of demonetization. Both no. of registrations and transaction volume dipped by 55-60% in Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) comparisons for Q4 ’16. Even… Read More »
The Indian arm of US-based Cognizant Technology Solutions has renewed the lease on its office space in the Blackstone Group-owned IT park in Pune, said two people familiar with the development. The deal is the first major office space transaction this year. Following the renewal of the lease of 2.6 lakh square feet of office… Read More »
Strengthening business confidences resulted in net absorption of office space across the top eight cities to 34 million square feet (msf) during 2016, according to an international property consultant Cushman & Wakefield. Of the total uptake of office space, nearly 40% of the total net absorption took place in the last quarter of 2016. Bengaluru… Read More »
