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.
Fraudsters will soon find it difficult to dupe banks by mortgaging the same property with two lenders or selling mortgaged property.
Indian real estate is expected to face “large-scale distress” amid rising borrowing costs and shrinking access to credit that may force developers into fire sales for assets, according to Knight Frank.
Faced with the non-compliance by the real estate companies, Brand Capital, earlier known as Times Private Treaties, the ad-for-equity business of publishing group Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), has hired real estate consultant Knight Frank India Pvt. Ltd to manage its real estate portfolio.
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 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.
As part of its social obligations, CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India) is planning to train unskilled labourers from 10 select cities in the country, with the assistance of National Skilled Development Corporation (NSDC).
Income-Tax officials raided the offices and residences of real estate czar, Century Group owned by P Dayanand Pai and Satish Pai, and Manipal University managed by the Pais.
The government is keen to clean realty deals and wants to crack down on money laundering. It wants a closer look at the real estate market, widely perceived to be the biggest sink of black money in India.
Unsold, vacant, no takers…these words aptly sum up the story for real estate developers into malls in India. Even though retailers are spreading their wings once again after the slowdown, the absorption of malls remains sluggish, leading to high vacancies.