Blackstone Group, GIC of Singapore and Brookfield Asset Management have fired slightly over $1-billion separate bids to acquire a 40% stake in DLF’s commercial property unit that owns rent-yielding assets. The three heavyweight investors are among those who made offers as the deadline for filing bids ended last weekend, sources directly familiar with the matter… Read More »
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is gearing up to significantly increase its real estate investments in India, on the back of a well-performing office market, a residential sector that promises to turn around soon and huge demand for capital from developers, two people familiar with the company’s plans said. As part of the plans, Brookfield will… Read More »
BlackRock Inc has agreed to sell a 43-storey office building in Singapore to Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, for S$3.4 billion ($2.5 billion), in what the U.S. firm said was the largest-ever single-tower real estate deal in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia Square Tower 1, located in the city-state’s financial district, has over 1.25 million… Read More »
In India’s largest deal so far in the commercial property space, Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management is set to acquire Hiranandani Group’s offices and retail space in Powai, Mumbai, for around $1billion, or about Rs 6,700 crore, two people familiar with the development said. Hiranandani Group, a partnership between Hiranandani brothers Niranjan and Surendra, owns 4.5… Read More »
The commercial real estate sector is witnessing increased interest from private equity funds, with several large institutions focusing on completed and leased commercial assets for investment. In 2015, private equity real estate firms deployed more than $5 billion in Indian real estate companies and projects -the highest since the financial crisis of 2008 -through 90 deals,… Read More »
Apple is in talks to lease over 40,000 square feet of office space in Bengaluru where it intends to set up a development centre, three people familiar with the development said. “The company has signed the letter of intent with Galleria, a mixed use project in Yelahanka in Bengaluru,” one of these people said. Galleria is… Read More »
The Indore Development Authority (IDA) is planning to take possession of land near Navlakha bus stand from the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) in order to raise funds for its projects by leasing it out. The land near Navlakha bus stand was cleared from encroachments last year by the civic body. The IDA board members had asked… 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 »
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 »
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 »
