Tag Archives: Office Space

Bengaluru office builders flocking to Hyderabad as demand soars

Hyderabad has become the new investment destination for Bengaluru’s commercial property developers at a time when the city’s real estate market is on a revival mode after almost half a decade of political turmoil. Companies such as DivyaSree Developers, Salarpuria Sattva, Embassy and RMZ Corp have built or are in the process of building a… Read More »

Commercial office space market to remain persistent

Office market across the country is expected to remain persistent and is likely to maintain the same volume of transactions in coming quarters. Office markets in key cities have achieved a good base with leasing volumes moving from strength to strength in the past few years, leading to a gradual slowdown in the growth of… Read More »

Indiabulls to launch Rs1,500 crore fund to invest in office spaces

Indiabulls Asset Management Co. Ltd is launching its first commercial asset fund and plans to raise up to Rs1,500 crore from mainly domestic investors, said a fund executive. Dual Advantage Commercial Assets Fund is an alternative investment fund (AIF) and will invest in buying out office properties that generate regular stable rental income with capital… Read More »

Indian IT pins hopes on SmartCity Kochi

Work on a Dubai-owned IT park in Kerala in south India is ploughing ahead, despite the severe uncertainty and challenges that India’s IT sector is facing, according to a top executive behind the project. Development of the next phase of SmartCity Kochi, one year after its opening, is under way, with new offices due to… Read More »

Personal cubicles form just 5% of office space now as companies promote collaborative work culture

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 »

Bengaluru top in net absorption of office spaces, Hyderabad second

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 »

Air India steps up asset monetisation; to lease out space in Kolkata

After renting out most of the space in its erstwhile iconic tower Air India Building here, the national carrier has now started the process to lease out around 25,500 square feet space at the Kolkata office complex.The airline, which turned operationally profitable for the first time in a decade in 2015-16 fiscal, is pursuing ways… Read More »