Ackruti City is in talks with a couple of private equity (PE) lenders to raise around Rs.150 crore by selling around 25% in its proposed redevelopment project in Chembur, north eastern suburb of Mumbai.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing Managing Director Naresh Naik has resigned to set up a real estate fund house that will invest exclusively in India.
The festival of Diwali has a direct bearing on the property market, and irrespective of the overall macro economic scenario the property transactions around this time of the year have been the maximum.
Indians are the biggest property buyers in Dubai among foreign nationals, as per the figure released by the Dubai Land Department (DLD) for the first half of 2011.
The current global scenario might be one of gloom, with markets in the US and in Europe on the brink of a double dip recession, but interest in Indian real estate is still high among global investors
Retail chains across the country are signing up for space in a big way, after a long pause that had followed the economic downturn.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the real-estate sector last year was the lowest in four years, but private equity activity gained momentum during the recent months, according to a study by an Indian industry chamber and a global accountancy firm.
Real estate developers have called upon potential buyers in Doha to take advantage of recessionary trends in the global economy and make investments in the real estate sector of growing economies like India.
Global consultancy firm McKinsey has recommended moving Indian household savings in physical assets like gold and real estate to financial assets to increase the flow of financial savings to domestic equity markets.
Both the economy and the residential property sector are currently in a state of uncertainty. This has resulted in a rather prolonged period of vacillation and hesitancy among home buyers in India.