Track2Realty: Office space demand slowed down in the first quarter of 2014, with around 6.3 million sq. ft. of office space getting absorbed across the leading cities of the country as against 6.6 million sq. ft. in Q1 2013—a drop of approximately 5%. Transaction activity was dominated by the National Capital Region (NCR), Bangalore and Chennai—representing about 70% of the total space transacted during the quarter.
Track2Realty: Godrej Properties has entered into an LLP to develop a residential township project in North Bengaluru. The project, spread across 100 acres, will offer a potential saleable area of approximately 0.87 million square meters (9.4 million sq. ft.) though its proximity to the new international airport may lead to a reduced consumption of FSI.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Noida seems to be on a highway of growth corridor and is fast emerging from the shadow of being poor cousin of NCR’s glorified market of Gurgaon. If the spate of luxury and other high-end launches are any indication, already Noida is in the process of an image makeover where the investors’ confidence is increasingly tilting in its favour. The price appreciation in the last over a year across the Delhi-NCR region suggests that Noida has been witness to the best ROI to the investors.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While most of the metro cities are crumbling under the burden of increasing urbanisation and the load on the land and infrastructure has led the life miserable there are cities like Pune which seem to be learning from the mistakes of these metro cities and the late movers’ advantage seem to be helping the city grow holistically in terms of its real estate developments and infrastructure issues. What makes the case of Pune even more unique, reasons why it is rated as the best city out of the four established metros is the fact that the social infrastructure has gradually been shaping up well in the city to compliment the physical infrastructure.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The term ‘serviced apartment’ is traditionally used to describe an apartment alternative to hotel accommodation for long stay leisure or business travelers. However there are two types of accommodation namely extended stay and corporate housing. It is built in a manner where a furnished accommodation, comparatively larger than a hotel room, with small kitchenette is provided with basic facilities of a household, sometimes even provided with concierge service.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Call it migration or mere attraction, the Indian Real estate is spreading its roots into cities-in-making. Though fact remains that this sector has lots to thank the tier I cities for its large scale investments, but the winds of change are here to stay. The recent economic and investment policies, initiated by the government are giving a boost to the less known lands across the Indian sub-continent.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Pune-based real estate developer Kolte-Patil Developers has acquired a 30 acre land parcel at Kondhwa in Pune along with ASK Real Estate Special Opportunities Fund for Rs 160 crore. The Company will develop a residential housing project on the said land parcel. This land parcel is located within Pune city limits, in Katraj-Kondhwa area of South Pune.
Track2Realty: With economy witnessing a downturn, interest rates and inflation reaching all-time highs, 2013 has been one of the most eventful years for Real Estate in India. While introduction of Real Estate Regulatory Bill and Land Acquisitions Bills in the Parliament was positive for the real estate industry, end users sitting on the fence expecting a fall in prices lead to a contraction of demand in the past few quarters.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Real estate gains are not always short-term but often long-term from investment point of view. The same can be said about 2013 where despite of an outside view dismissing the year 2013 for low sales velocity, piling inventory, liquidity crunch and policy ambiguity, added to the country moving to the General Elections in 2014, the sector has managed to pave the way for long term reforms.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The Coimbatore real estate has by and large outperformed the rest of the country. This better-than-national average performance during the year 2013 has been remarkable at a time when some of the matured property markets were witness to sales plummeting with stress both at the buyers’ as well as developers’ level.