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Reports Real Estate Investment, Institutional Investment in Real Estate, Funding Shortage of Real Estate, Funding Gap of Real Estate, Real Estate Liquidity Crisis
Institutional investment to touch USD 50 bn in 2019: JLL study

India’s commercial office segment has been the favourite asset class of institutional investors over the years. They have allocated USD 17.6 bn in the form of direct investments during 2005-2019. JLL research indicates that 294 mn sq. ft. of office stock would be eligible for REIT. This would translate to an additional investment opportunity of USD 35 bn in near term.

Reports India Office Space, Demand of Office Space, Supply of Office Space, Absorption of Office Space, Vacancy Level in Office Space, Grade A Office Space, Colliers International, Ritesh Sachdev, Megha Maan
Demand for office space surges 9% in Jan-Sept 2019; Supply up 53% from year ago: Colliers Research

Bengaluru maintains the top position in office space leasing, with a share of 30% in gross leasing during Jan-September 2019. Bengaluru recorded gross absorption of 12.1 million sq feet during Jan-September 2019, a 7% increase from same period last year, as occupiers continue to ramp up.  IT-BPM and technology companies together accounted for 36%. Engineering and manufacturing sector’s leasing accounted for 18% share. Occupiers are preleasing space, and even taking up space in refurbished grade B buildings, due to tight vacancies in the market amidst healthy demand. The city’s vacancy stood at 8.8% at the end of Q3 2019.

Reports Office Space in India, Office Space Absorption, RICS Report on Office Space, Colliers Report on Office Space, Trends in Office Space, Designs of Office Space
Average annual office space gross absorption pegged at 50 million sq ft between 2019-2023: RICS – Colliers Research

Colliers International foresees robust demand from GICs, with leasing by GICs across six major cities in India to be in the range of 32.5 million sq ft between 2019 and 2021. Over 2014-2018, occupiers leased about 53.0 million sq ft of office space in multi-tenanted buildings for their GICs. Bengaluru led the demand with about 20.1 million sq ft, followed by Delhi NCR and Hyderabad. Further, we found that companies from the engineering, energy and manufacturing sectors favoured Bengaluru, which accounted for 32% of GIC demand between 2014-2018.

Reports Small Apartments, Studio Apartments, Size of Apartments in Indian Cities, Affordable Apartments, Affordable Housing
Average flat sizes shrink 27% since 2014; NCR sees least decline

Among the major factors contributing to the escalating ‘claustrophobia effect’ of shrinking apartment sizes, demand for affordable homes in metros tops the list. Also, buyers are increasingly looking to avail the government’s credit subsidy benefits for affordable housing. These require a home to be priced

Finance Real Estate Investments, Real Estate Funding, Real Estate PE Funds, Real Estate Institutional Funding, Funding Gap of Real Estate, Liquidity Crisis in Real Estate
Increasing share of institutional investments in Indian real estate: CII-JLL Study

Institutional investments increased in the last ten years and have improved investor confidence, risk appetite and transparency. Enhanced use of technology across asset classes have changed the outlook of investors towards Indian real estate. As a result, investments have more than tripled to INR 1,400 bn during 2014-18 as compared to INR 465 bn during 2009-13, says the latest CII-JLL report ‘Innovation Led Opportunities – Changing India’s Real Estate Landscape’, released on Wednesday, Aug 21, at the 11th Edition of CII Realty & Infrastructure Conclave.

Reports Student Housing, Co Working, Co Living, Shared Living, Real Estate Start Ups
Start-ups fuel the Indian student housing movement

Sensing the potential of the student housing market, many start-ups have entered the fray. Student housing providers such as Oxfordcaps, Tribestays, PLACIO, Stanza Living, Campus Student Communities, Housr, Simplyguest, etc. currently operate in Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, Noida, Mumbai, Indore, Dehradun, Ahmedabad and Jaipur. The top 10 players in the organized student housing space collectively operating slightly over 75,000 beds with plans to touch nearly 2 lakh beds by 2020. 

Reports Affordable Housing, Affordable Housing Shortage in India, Affordable Housing Demand in India, RICS Knight Frant Report on Affordable Housing, Investment in Affordable Housing, Private Equity Trends in Affordable Housing
Additional 25 million affordable units will be required by 2030, estimates RICS – Knight Frank Report

Construction for 4.9 million units has begun and 2.6 million units of which have been completed. Given the past trend, additional 1.64 million houses are likely to be sanctioned by December 2019, making it highly possible to achieve the 10 million houses target by 2022. Projected subsidy disbursement over next 3 year for the same is projected to INR 1 trillion.

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