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US$1 trillion to enter global real estate markets in 2016
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Corporate governance to turn Indian realty attractive for investors
From being the governance wild child to maturing into a market influencer, India’s real-estate sector has transformed in the past decade, with a paradigm shift from family owned businesses to corporates along with a few companies listing on stock exchanges. The change began with the government opening doors to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2005 and then welcoming the next wave of stability as corporate houses brought image restoration for the sector. Led by corporate entities, realty companies soon adopted corporate governance wherein transparency began to trickle down into the system as a norm slowly.
One global standard for measurement of carpet area for housing by end of year – RICS
Track2Realty: RICS, along with 61 professional bodies from around the world, has called for setting uniform measurement standards for residential sector globally (including India) to bring clarity on measuring various aspects of property measurement such as super built up area, built up area and carpet area.
House prices rose in 28 of the 44 world’s housing markets: Global Property Guide
Track2Realty: The global house price boom continues, with a new geographical twist. Housing markets surged during the year to Q2 2014 in Dubai, parts of Europe and the Pacific. In contrast, several Asian governments have implemented cooling measures, successfully restraining their housing markets, and the US housing market boom is weakening.
Indian cities: In need of growth drivers to raise global competitiveness
Track2Realty: Asian economies compete for greater global influence in terms of business, politics and sociocultural activity. Within economies, cities are the real growth engines. According to The Economic Intelligence Unit’s Hot Spots 2025 (2013) and AT Kearney’s 2014 Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook (2014), leading Indian cities have done well in terms of growing business activity and enhancing human capital.
Global house price boom continues: Global property guide
Track2Realty: The global house price boom continued during the year to Q1 (first quarter) 2014, gathering pace. Despite strongly rising housing markets in Taiwan and the Philippines, the momentum seems to be passing momentarily from Asia, where interventionist authorities have slowed housing markets in Hong Kong, Singapore and China. Instead, action is shifting to the Pacific, the Gulf, and (less forcefully) to Europe, which are all seeing strong price rises.
Global economic outlook & state policies to affect realty
Track2Realty Exclusive: 2014 is the year when, to some extent, not only the real estate market but the economy as a whole will have the impact of being in an election year. This is because real estate gets affected as approvals get delayed during this time. A couple of months before even the State elections, slowdown in deals happens on which new approvals are pending.
India among top 10 rental growth markets globally: C&W
Track2Realty: India is among the top ten global markets to recorded the highest rental increase year on year as per the annual report ‘Main Streets across the World 2013’ by Cushman & Wakefield. Punjagutta in Hyderabad, recorded the 8th highest growth in retail rental values globally with an annual growth of 29% year–on- year.
Asia to invest $150 bn in real estate globally
Track2Realty-Agencies: Asian institutional investors are looking to invest $150 billion in global real estate in the next five years, with a focus on cities like Dubai, London, New York and Sydney, according to a new research.