Track2Realty-Agencies: The government should take steps to monetize under-utilized land resources of public sector enterprises, port trusts and railways, a panel set up to chart out the roadmap on fiscal consolidation has recommended.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Manish Aggarwal, Executive Director, India as the North India operations lead for all service lines. Manish will be responsible for providing strategic direction to Cushman & Wakefield’s Northern India business and facilitate enhanced service delivery.
Track2Realty-Agencies: More than 70 builders across India will showcase their properties at Times Realty India-2012 event to be held on Septmber 28-29 at J W Marriott Hotel, Deira.
Track2Realty-CRIENGLISH: In a country where majority of the people do not have decent homes and the volume of sales of housing units in Indian markets is under pressure,a growing number of Indians are keen to buy homes abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Track2Realty: Government is coming out with new PPP models to fast track infrastructure projects, said Jitin Prasada, Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, while inaugurating the Conference on Infrastructure Project Management, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on Thursday, Sep 20.
Track2Realty: The top six cities of India are expected to see a total of 50,000 new hotel rooms across categories in the next 5- 6 years. This is in response to the steady growth the hospitality sector has recorded over the last few years. 2012 alone is expected to see 14,800 fresh keys by the end of the year. Out of the total expected supply for 2012, 2000 new hotel rooms have already entered the market. These are the findings of a report by Cushman & Wakefield (C&W)and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Asia and Latin America’s economic resurgences have fueled an upturn in retail activity, with increasing rents reflecting high demand for the limited amount of prime retail opportunities in both regions, according to A Global Perspective on the Shopping Center Industry, a new global retail report from Cushman & Wakefield and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
Bangalore’s luxury residential market seen a major transformation in the recent past, with the Kingfisher Tower setting a new capital values benchmark (northwards of Rs. 30,000/sq.ft) in the super luxury category. The new dynamics being seen now have been referred to as the ‘coming of age’ of Bangalore’s residential market, and I agree with this definition. We are certainly witnessing a remarkable maturing process here.
The Finance Ministry will meet chief executives of leading banks today, Sep 17, to discuss credit flow to the real estate and housing sectors. According to sources D K Mittal, Secretary of Financial Services, will chair the meeting of bankers, which will take stock of credit flow to the sensitive sectors.
Further insight on the current state of the Indian economy will be provided with the release of July industrial production data on Wednesday 12th and August WPI (inflation) on Friday 14th. Recent news flow has generally been a little downbeat but the picture is not a uniform one.