Realty major DLF may not extend sponsorship to the Indian Premier League (IPL) after its first five-year deal expires this year. According to DLF sources, they have conveyed this to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The emergence of the secondary and tertiary cities led to an aggressive increase in hotel development and provided avenues for expansion of hotel brands, which were previously dependent on new opportunities in just the five main cities.
The income tax department has frozen the shares owned by real estate company Unitech Ltd in its mobile phone joint venture with Norway’s Telenor, the joint venture said on Wednesday, citing notices from the tax authorities.
Mantri Developers has collaborated with Cisco to develop new ICT-enabled real estate models ‘Mantri Connected Communities and Smart Homes.’ This collaboration combines Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities vision with Mantri’s experience as a pioneering smart urban developer to provide connected and sustainable communities and an enriched living experience to its residents.
ITES and BFSI continue to be primary demand drivers of office space in India in 2012, says DTZ Occupier Perspective: India Office Demand and Trends Survey 2011. It says Delhi NCR and Bengaluru preferred by IT/ITES while Mumbai is BFSI’s favourite. Tier II cities of Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh and Jaipur preferred by IT/ITES; Ahmedabad by BFSI’s favourite; Gurgaon is the preferred micro market in Delhi NCR.
The over-heated Mumbai property market is taking its toll on the property transactions and sales in Mumbai property is the lowest of the six major cities across the country. According to reports, over the last one year leading to December 2011, residential sales in Mumbai have dropped by 28 per cent.
SARE Homes (South Asian Real Estate) has launched ‘Petioles’, privacy apartments with Gurgaon’s first luxury private Sky Deck in Gurgaon, Sector 92. Developed on a sprawling 48-acre integrated township, Petioles claims to be Gurgaon’s first luxury private ‘Sky Deck’ consisting of a viewing deck, yoga and meditation zone, viewing deck, water wall and putting green.
The rate at which economy is growing our urban centers shall add at least 100 million people by year 2020 merely on the account of urbanization. To provide housing to so many people India needs to invest a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. This is equivalent to 80 times our education budget allocation for year 2011-12.
The Company Law Board (CLB) has asked real estate company Unitech to decide by Monday if it wanted to buy its joint venture partner Telenor’s 67 per cent stake in telecom company Uninor or sell its 33 per cent stake to the Norwegian firm.
Fearing share price manipulation with the help of certain ‘independent’ research reports onIndian companies, market watchdog Sebi may soon bring all kinds of research analysts under its regulatory ambit.