In an effort to enhance professionalism in the industry, RICS has launched its Red Book of Valuation Standards and Global real estate agency and brokerage standards at the recently concluded real estate conference in Mumbai.
Come budget and the real estate sector, like any other industry, comes out with its own wish list. Unfortunately, while other organised industry get a patient hearing through their industry bodies, the Finance minister seem to be hardly entertaining the sector representatives till recently.
RBI’s latest notification says that stamp duty, registration and other charges should be excluded while calculating the value of a property. This is expected to have a short-term impact and is unlikely to turn out to be a show stopper.
The Information Technology sector has a special significance for India, because India’s competence in this sector has made it a net exporter of IT services. It was the fastest growing sector of the nineties and continues to fast-track careers, spending power, local economies and real estate growth even today.
India is the ninth largest construction market in the world according to a Global Construction 2020 report by Oxford Economics. Growing at an estimated cumulative annual growth rate of 8.9%, it is expected to become the third largest market by 2020 and is globally acknowledged as an extremely lucrative business opportunity.
Immediately after Ahmedabad-based power, port and mining company Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) decided to part with its real estate business a day ago, the Adani family clarified that they are keen on retaining Adani Infrastructure Development Pvt Ltd (AIDPL).
Traditional real estate study ranks cities in terms of demand-supply of inventories, absorption across the asset class and price appreciation & correction.
Sahara India, US-based Turner Construction Company and Acropolis Capital Group have together formed a construction company that plans to build realty projects undertaken by the Sahara India Group worth $2.5 billion over the next five years in India, the companies said on Thursday. The group has plans to build projects worth $25 billion over the next 20 years.
Phoenix has recently also sold 80 per cent of office properties in its mixed-use Market City projects in Kurla in Mumbai and Pune, respectively. It plans to launch another 300,000 sq ft of office properties in Mumbai in the next six-nine months.
In the country’s commercial capital, Mumbai, over a dozen large developers and double their number of smaller ones are selling office properties as well, according to Ashok Kumar, Principal and Managing Director of Cresa Partners, a corporate realty services firm.