Cushman & Wakefield to expand into Malaysia
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield has expanded into Malaysia with a new office in Kuala Lumpur that is C&W’s 35th office in Asia Pacific.
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Residential complexes Vs smaller projects
Track2Realty: Residential property in India has evolved into an asset which individuals hold for multiple purposes, not merely self-occupancy. Individuals now seek homes either for investment purpose, or for weekend stays and ‘lifestyle accommodation’. It is therefore apt to look at residential projects on the basis of the profile of individual buyers.
When a developer dares to opt for Destination Development
Track2Realty Exclusive: India has traditionally been a reluctant urbaniser and the developers have been even more reluctant to take the roads less travelled. For long it is the government agencies that have been catalyst to land acquisition and hand it over to the developers. Now that the Land Acquisition Bill is set to change the entire ballgame, Track2Realty wonders whether it is time to take a few case studies where a developer has dared to opt for ‘Destination Development’. Though such cases have been few and far between, the road ahead indicates even lesser first movers in the ring.
Mumbai commercial property attractive due to moderate appreciation
Track2Realty Exclusive: It was in the July last year that Rohit Arora, an NRI returned from New Jersey to settle in Mumbai and set up his consultancy business over here. Looking for an office space, he was so carried by the reports of a price correction that he preferred to defer the office acquisition, either on rent or purchase.
Engaging government into policy advocacy challenging-I
Track2Realty Exclusive: The real estate sector in India today is developing at a scorching pace. Factors such as higher levels of income and purchasing power and the growing need for entertainment, leisure and shopping, the government’s focus on infrastructure development, rapid urbanisation driven by rural-urban immigration and an emerging trend of nuclear families, greater availability of loans to finance real estate purchases, amongst others, have been instrumental in this development.
The Mumbai Metro-A real estate game changer
Track2Realty: Several years after New Delhi, the country’s political capital, witnessed a transformation with the implementation of the Delhi Metro, the financial capital of Mumbai is set to experience a similar phenomenon with the imminent commissioning of the Versova Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) corridor of the Mumbai Metro. With equity participation from Reliance Infra and Veolia (a French transportation major), this PPP initiative has all the hallmarks of a game-changer for the city’s transportation and realty landscape.
Pune 4th among top 10 ranking of Asia Pacific rental growth: Cushman & Wakefield
Track2Realty: The emerging cities continue to dominate the rental growth in the region with Jakarta (Indonesia) witnessing the highest office rental growth (yoy) among 33 cities in Asia, followed by Manila (Philippines) at 2nd position and Shenzhen (China) at 3rd Pune (India) at 4th position while NCR (India) ranked at 10, says Asia Office Q1 2014 report of Cushman & Wakefield.
More than 60% of global retailers present in India; lack of quality space & legislative issues hamper organised retail: CBRE Report
Track2Realty: Despite more than 60% of global retailers already having a presence in India, the lack of quality retail space and legislative issues have been an impediment to the spread of organized retail in the country, according to CBRE’s report, Expanding Horizons of Global Retailers in India.
East coast boom; challenges of scaling up
Track2Realty Exclusive: The east coast of Delhi-NCR has been on a roll and bucking all the trends of slowdown areas in and around, most importantly Ghaziabad, NH 24 stretch and Noida have done better than the national average in the last couple of years. To say that the property market in this part of the world has been more realistic having registered more property transactions would be stating the obvious.
Coimbatore-Tirupur-Erode Industrial Corridor to ignite realty growth
Track2Realty Exclusive: The proposed industrial corridors across the country are being seen as the catalysts to ignite the growth of the economy in general and real estate market in particular. In Coimbatore also, all eyes are set on the Coimbatore-Tirupur-Erode Industrial Corridor that promises to redefine the economy of the region with fresh influx of investment and increased economic activity in and around the industrial corridor.