The Asian market is driving global economic growth and India is emerging as the world’s preferred outsourcing hub. According to the CBRE 2017 Asia Pacific Occupier Survey report released last week, multinational as well as Asia Pacific-based companies have aggressive expansion plans for India and China over the next three years. Interestingly, in the Asia… Read More »
Apr 17 Realty firm Godrej Properties has tied up with the taj group to develop a luxury hotel project in Mumbai. Godrej Properties said it has “partnered with Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris to develop a world-class Taj brand hotel at its flagship project, The Trees, at Vikhroli”. The Taj hotel will manage this property… Read More »
The Real Estate(Regulation and Development) Act will be a blessing in disguise for home buyers, including those who have still not got possession of their properties. According to the Act, every ongoing and under-construction project is supposed to come under the regulator’s ambit. To operationally cover an ongoing project, the developer has to first get… Read More »
Private equity giant Blackstone India’s REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) listing is likely to happen in mid-2017, ahead of which the company may undertake a corporate restructuring, demarcating its office spaces from the retail assets, geography-wise. Blackstone is planning to list two separate REITs for its office assets: one with Pune-based Panchshil Realty, and the… Read More »
Saddled with total debt of around Rs 46,000 crore, Air India has written to 16 of its lenders to cut interest rate on its loans by up to 2 percentage points, in line with the reduction in rates in the market. The airline is also in talks with state-owned infrastructure company NBCC and Ministry of… Read More »
When Goldman Sachs opened its wholly owned Bangalore operation in 2004, it was a typical back office. Just under 300 full-time staff supported a front line of revenue-generating bankers worldwide. They worked in limited areas such as information technology, finance and accounting. The group put no cap on Bangalore’s ambitions, says Bunty Bohra, who heads… Read More »
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 »
