Festive spirit not driving property market
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RICS and CREDAI collaborate to train middle managers in real estate
News Point: Joint skills development initiative aimed at improving knowledge…
Bangalore likely to remain India’s top corporate real estate market
Bottom Line: As India’s technology sector expands its horizons, Bangalore…
US$1 trillion to enter global real estate markets in 2016
Bottom Line: The global investor survey conducted among CBRE clients…
Retailers physical store expansion undeterred by online growth: CBRE
China top target destination in APAC; Southeast Asia surges. Growing…
Delhi-NCR home to artificial price appreciation
Pritam Yadav bought an apartment in Noida at Rs 3,000 per sq ft in an upcoming location three years back. The developer had then promised that the price will appreciate to no less than Rs 4,500 per sq feet within 18-24 months. It actually appreciated to Rs. 5000 within couple of years. However, circumstantial exit effort made him realise that the appreciation was only a castle in the air.
This doctor could not find any buyer at the appreciated price point. Forget Rs. 5000 sq feet price that the developer was advertising, he could not get any taker in the secondary market for even Rs. 4000 per sq feet. Even the developer refused to buy back at Rs. 1000 per sq feet lesser than what he h
Delhi’s Connaught Place world’s 6th most expensive office market
At about US$151 per sq. ft. per annum, Delhi’s Central Business District (CBD) of Connaught Place was ranked as the sixth most expensive prime office market in the world, according to CBRE Research’s semi-annual Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs survey.
Realty friendly Land Acquisition Ordinance fails to address larger concerns
Track2Realty Exclusive: Not that Hitender Tyagi of Noida was a prosperous landlord, yet he felt like the one with his small piece of 12 acre of agricultural land. Today this ailing farmer feels like a pauper who was forced to do away with his source of bread and butter as his land was forcibly acquired by the Noida Authority.
High confidence index of MNC office space occupiers challenging trends
Track2Realty Exclusive: Sales model in commercial office spaces that was only recently seen as an indicator of distress on part of the developers has, of late, turned out to be a smart business model by the MNCs. These multinational companies seem to have confidence in the Indian growth story and with long term plan they are investing into the purchase of these properties. Track2Realty Focus 2015 finds that it is not a distress sale of developers since the capital values and rental yields have both appreciated sharply in the last three years despite of impending slowdown. The shift of these commercial spaces beyond the IT/ITeS is the most significant trend.
India office market unplugged; big ticket transactions preceded REITs
Track2Realty Exclusive: 2014 was an eventful year for the commercial real estate market in India. The economic outlook in the first half of the year was uninspiring. Coupled with political uncertainty this resulted in investors and occupiers stalled making any real estate decisions. Business confidence was at its lowest. The sentiment changed dramatically in the second half post the national elections as it became clear that there would a ‘new’ stable government.