Track2Realty: Central Bank of India is looking ahead to cloak a total business of Rs 10,000 crore from home loan segment. The bank has been aggressively targeting prospective home seekers through its various initiatives.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Robert Vadra was on Friday, Oct 26, given a clean chit by the Haryana government in the controversial land deals involving him in the state after an official probe concluded that there was no “undervaluation” or loss of revenue to the government.
Track2Realty: Office space absorption witnessed a 14% q-o-q decline during the 3rd quarter of 2012, according to the findings of CBRE’s latest report, India Office Market View Q3, 2012. Prime office space absorption across the 7 key cities reviewed decreased to about 6 million sq ft in the third quarter, compared to more than 7 million sq ft in the previous quarter.
Track2Realty: Everstone Capital has appointed Rajesh Jaggi as the Managing Partner for its real estate business.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Young professionals in metro cities are no longer the demand drivers of residential property. More than half of them, as many as 57%, say they would prefer to stay in rented apartment and instead invest in their tier-II and tier III city home town for better appreciation potential. 78% of those working professionals with double-income who have bought a house in metro now want to invest in their home town for second home.
Track2Realty: Former police officer turned activist Y P Singh has alleged that Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar was centre of real estate scam. At the same time he criticised Arvind Kejriwal for concealing information about a massive scam in Maharashtra because he was selective about which politicians he targets. He also attacked Kejriwal for his expose against BJP Nitin Gadkari while sparing Pawar.
Track2Realty: Godrej Properties has launched residential project, Godrej E-City, in Electronic City Phase-1, Bengaluru. Spread over approximately 15 acres, this project will be completed in 3 phases.
Track2Realty: Jennifer Layke is the Director of Johnson Controls’ Institute for Building Efficiency, a global initiative to provide information and analysis of technologies, policies, and practices in high performance buildings and smart energy systems from a practitioner’s perspective. She leads the Institute’s research agenda and collaborations with a network of global experts on topical areas including commercial building efficiency, smart buildings & the smart grid, green building design, and renewable energy technologies.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Nearly five years after venturing into telecom and investing over Rs 600 crore, Unitech decided to part ways with Telenor, its Norwegian partner in the mobile venture, paying a nominal Rs 25 crore to settle its messy dispute.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Larsen & Toubro booked fresh orders worth Rs 15,800 crore in the second quarter of the current year, lower than the Rs 19,600 crore it booked in the previous quarter.