Track2Realty: India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) maintains a negative outlook on the infrastructure sector for H213, largely due to unfavourable macro-economic variables and project level stresses.
Track2Realty: DLF Ltd has signed definitive agreements to sell its 74% equity stake in its the Life Insurance Joint Venture – DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Company Ltd, a joint venture with Prudential International Insurance Holdings Ltd (“PIIHL”), a subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc USA “PFI” to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (“DHFL”) & its group entities.
Track2Realty Exclusive: As corrective steps we need to form a regularized official body to maintain consistency and transparency. There were only two cities in the world which were over populated and this has gone up to 29 cities with dense population in past one decade.
Track2Realty: The government is all set to introduce a buyer-friendly real estate legislation which aims to protect consumers and bring transparency in the sector in the monsoon session of Parliament.
Track2Realty: Office markets in India registered a downward trend in absorption in the first half of the year (Jan–June 2013), according to the latest report by Cushman & Wakefield. The total net absorption across top eight cities in H1 2013 was noted at 10.9 million square feet (msf) which denoted a decline of 15% compared to the same period last year.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The three key factors that go into sustainable construction are — design, materials and technologies. In order to get the benefit of those savings, a developer has to replace conventional methods with green alternatives on all the three fronts.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The concept has been new in India and in the absence of home buyers understanding, they have often succumbed to misleading advertisements that promise “view of nature” or “open green spaces.”
Track2Realty-Agencies: America’s real estate business tycoon and celebrity Donald Trump has announced his company’s first Indian project, a 22-storied residential twin towers in Pune having 44 luxurious single-floor condominiums.
Track2Realty Exclusive: With realty being a micro market driven business and land a state subject, dealing with the government machinery has a different challenge in many of these cities.
Track2Realty: ASK Property Investment Advisors (ASKPIA), the real-estate private equity arm of ASK Group has announced its fifth investment from its second real estate fund. The project which will comprise of residential apartments is expected to have a sales value of around Rs.1000 crores.