The gross office space take-up in India amounted to 9.3 million sq ft in the first quarter ended in March, up 8% from a year ago. The market also recorded about 2.5 million sq ft of pre-commitments signifying healthy demand, showed a Colliers Research report. Five months on from demonetisation, occupiers’ markets across India’s major… Read More »
Real estate developers are concerned that the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) may raise the overall cost of properties if the sector comes under the expected 18% tax slab and stamp duty is not subsumed in the new tax structure. The GST Bill was cleared in Parliament’s budget session, paving the way… Read More »
Indian real estate is now becoming way more attractive to investors — both foreign and domestic — than ever before, thanks to changes in regulatory framework. The global capital flow into Indian real estate in 2016 stood at about $5.7 billion. Though the historic high of 2007, in terms of total PE inflows, was not… Read More »
Occupants from information technology sector dominated the office space leasing in 2016 across the country with over 51% of total deals concluded by them, said commercial realty data information and analytic firm Propstack. These deals for grade A office spaces also include transactions of IT-enabled services companies too. “IT companies continued to drive home the… Read More »
10000+sf deals contributed to nearly 90% of the total leasing activity witnessed in Bangalore in 2016. Last quarter of the year contributed maximum volume of area leased- 35% for these large deals. Information Technology (IT) and BFSI sectors contibuted nearly 70% of the total 10,000 + sf deals volume for Bangalore last year. *Grade A data… Read More »
Falling footfalls in Bhandup’s Magnet Mall, one of Mumbai’s biggest, has forced its developer to shut down and revamp the 10 lakh sq ft premises into an office-cum-retail complex. Over the past few years, several malls across the country, including Mumbai, have been converted into commercial or residential complexes because of poor business. But market… Read More »
India’s digital payment giant Paytm opened its third office in Bengaluru renting a 150-seat space in a flexible office in Bengaluru as it seeks to expand up presence in the startup capital of India. Paytm is on a head count expansion spree to bring on board 2,000 executives in South India alone to widen its… Read More »
Large companies are seeing sense in employees working out of a co-working space near their homes, as urban commutes are getting longer. Co-working spaces like CoWrks, InstaOffice, 91springboard, Awfis finds that up to 40-50% of their space is now occupied by SMEs and corporates and not just startups. “When you enter a corporate office, you… Read More »
Mumbai accounted for 18 per cent of office space absorption — the second highest in the country— in the first quarter of 2017, said a report from real estate consultancy CBRE. While this was on a par with Bengaluru, the National Capital Region (NCR) ranked first, accounting for 19 per cent of all transactions. According… Read More »
The pan-India office space vacancy in 2016 at 15 per cent was the lowest in eight years. The sharpest decline in pan-India office vacancy was seen between 2013 and 2016 when it went down from 18.5 per cent to 15 per cent. “On the back of positive office space demand from sectors such as manufacturing,… Read More »
