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Track2Realty Exclusive: Nearly Real estate stocks have been on a roller coaster ride for the last few years but 2012-13 has been witness to some stability in the realty index. Critics call it more speculative than any other index as the disconnect between the respective company and its stock has often been devoid of logic.
Track2Realty Exclusive: First influencers, then catalysts and now storming into what can be conveniently called last male bastion—Real Estate. Indian women have indeed come a long way to prove that a challenging job of realty business is not a taboo for them. Even some of the mothers have excelled in real estate along with the family responsibilities and upbringing of the children. Track2Realty takes a few of such Case Studies.
Track2Realty Exclusive: I remember when I left Education Times in 2006, to take over Property Plus Central, Times of India Mumbai’s area centric real estate supplement, circulated in the central suburbs of the city, as its editor. Everyone I knew was convinced I had committed career hara-kiri.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Many luxury brands have a rich pedigree, seventh P of branding, and extraordinary history that become an inseparable part of the brand story. The mystique and the legend is generally built around the exceptional emotive founder character of past.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The Government of India envisages one trillion dollar investment in all areas of infrastructure in the 12th five year plan (year 2012 to 2017). The Government wants fifty percent of this investment to come from the private sector participation and most of these projects are expected to utilize the Private – Public partnership (PPP) model.
Track2Realty: Mumbai’s residential segment witnessed mixed sentiments during the first six months of the year. While the city’s leasing market displayed signs of weakness during the review period, the sales market managed to hold its ground with limited capital appreciation in a few locations. These are the findings of CBRE’s latest research report on the residential sector, ‘India Residential Market View H1 2013’.
Track2Realty-Agencies: State-run construction giant National Bildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) says it plans to aggressively tap the real estate market and has set a target to build 10,000 housing units by 2018, entailing an investment of about Rs 6,000 crore.
Track2Realty: Mumbai witnessed the launch of approximately 18,000 real estate units during the first half of 2013; representing an increase of 30% compared to the first half of 2012. Of the total launches, 30% were witnessed in the western suburbs of Mumbai which had the highest share in new launches at locations like Andheri, Bandra, Malad and Goregaon. Navi Mumbai contributed 24% of the overall launches with the second phase of a large township project launched in Panvel.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The RBI needs to put its act together before its next monetary policy review on July 30. In the wake of sluggish pace of economy, the Reserve Bank’s status quo on key policy rates in its last monetary policy sent a wave of disappointment in the industry.
Track2Realty-Agencies: While the sentiment in the real estate sector continues to be sluggish, SRS Real Infrastructure is eyeing Rs 1,200 crore of revenue this fiscal, mainly on the back of new launches, a top company official has said.