After recording significant leasing in 4Q10, Mumbai city witnessed moderate transaction activity in 1Q11 as the major office occupiers of India Inc awaited the impact of budget on their corporate real estate strategy for the next fiscal year.
The period ending 1Q11 witnessed moderate activity in the office market in the city. With CBD vacancy rates continuing to hover at around 1%, office transactions were limited to either small office queries or larger office spaces that were inevitably a churn in the existing stock.
Real estate developers in Chhattisgarh are among the first to have agreed to follow code of conduct to ensure transparency in the dealings of the sector.
The bullion company, Goldsukh Trade India Limited has now entered into real-estate estate.
A day after its Managing Director Vinod Goenka was arrested in the 2G spectrum scam case on Wednesday, the controversial Mumbai-based real estate company DB Realty inducted his father, K M Goenka, as a Non-Executive Director.
The Income-Tax department is planning to look into all suspected real estate deals to check involvement of black money component and tax evasion.
The Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday said that it has excluded Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd from both the BSE 100 and BSE 200 indices and replaced it with Coal India.
The Sensex has always been a barometer of the country’s general economic ‘mood’. The real estate index, on the other hand, is an indicator of the sentiments towards real estate developers.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed 15 foreign bank accounts with direct links to realtor Hasan Ali Khan and his accomplice, Kolkata based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah.
Demand for residential development will continue to remain unabated, but the requirement of real estate by retail industry over the next five years and even thereafter will provide a major thrust to the property market in India, said CB Richard Ellis’ global president Robert E Sulentic.