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.
When the Reserve bank of India was announcing the CRR rate cut by 50 base points, the house wife Sugnadha Dubey, glued to TV news channels, couldn’t resist the temptation to call up her husband to know whether the EMI burden on this middle class home owner is going to ease out from next month. With no background of the world of financial jargon, her husband could only assure her with a wishful thinking.
Rohan Sharma, Manager – Research & Real Estate Intelligence Service,…
The implementation of the revised DTC will have strong implications on SEZs. The industry requires clarity on the issues that may emerge, and how businesses would be promoted in Special Economic Zones.
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.
The last few months have seen a lot of mid-sized office and mixed-use buildings in Mumbai going under the hammer. Not very surprising, considering the wave of real estate redevelopment that has swept the city. What is so unusual about these buildings is the fact that they are going to be redeveloped into stand-alone retail formats.
Mumbai’s residential home sales dropped to a three-year low in the quarter ended December as record home prices and higher interest rates crimped demand, according to Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.
The demand for holiday homes in India is as wired into the country’s overall economic performance as every other segment of residential real estate.
Judging by feedback obtained from a cross-section of Indian retail players, it emerges that most retailers perceived 2011 to be a flat year.
With the market set to bottom by out by the second quarter of 2012, we will see the beginning of a recovery in the city’s residential real estate fortunes by the second half of the year.