Corporates are moving towards promoting interactive and collaborative work culture, reducing the share of cubicles or individual work spaces to just about 5% today, from as high as 25% a decade ago, according to an international property consultancy. Consequently, ‘open plan seating’ in offices, which was merely about 25% of the floor plan earlier, has… Read More »
This year’s Investment Prospects survey from Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC shows a strong shift away from last year’s favorites, which featured core markets in Japan and Australia, in favor of emerging-market destinations. The survey also found steep declines in the popularity of gateway cities with the exception of Shanghai which has seen a… Read More »
2016 was year of many big announcements. From the Smart Cities mission to demonetization, there were several headline-making events that would change the face of Indian real estate in the times to come. Chennai embraced these changes and lived up to its reputation of being a city that bounces back, regardless of the odds. Chennai… Read More »
The real estate sector in India has been lucrative for savvy investors over the last decade, but it has not been without accompanying uncertainties. The introduction of REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) will open up a platform that will allow all kinds of investors – even those with smaller budgets – to make safe and… Read More »
Bangalore has emerged as the most dynamic city in the fourth annual City Momentum Index of cities around the world, followed by Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam and Silicon Valley in the U.S. Hyderabad also makes it to the Top 10, ahead of London, and Chennai and Pune to the Top 20, but environmental factors… Read More »
Commercial real estate activity across top cities in the country could be muted in the first half of 2017 after seeing a mixed trend in the year gone by, according to a property consultant. According to the report, while Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai saw double-digit growth in office take up in 2016, net absorption in… Read More »
Tech companies absorbed almost 60% of the fresh office lease in Noida last year, thereby continuing to fuel real estate growth in this emerging market, a report by a property consultant, India, revealed. The office-absorption report by the real estate researcher further stated that a total of 7,06,063 square metres of office space was absorbed in… Read More »
Office space absorption dropped in Bengaluru in the October-December quarter, compared to the same period last year, partly due to limited availability of Grade A office space in the city. Gross absorption fell to 4.6 million sqft in the quarter, from 5.3 million sqft a year earlier, according to data from an independent property consultancy.… Read More »
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 »
Globally, real estate is recognized as a sector which has the most economic linkages. In India, realty is the second largest employer after agriculture and is slated to grow at 30% over the next decade as the number of Indians living in urban areas is set to increase from 434 million in 2015 to 600… Read More »
