Track2Realty-Agencies: Real estate companies have expressed disappointment over the RBI’s decision to hike the short-term lending rate, saying this could hurt economic growth and adversely impact property demand in the ongoing festival season.
Track2Realty: Cushman and Wakefield has been appointed as exclusive marketing partners by Equinox Realty, the real estate arm of Essar Group, for Villas In The Sky range of apartments at Water’s Edge in Hebbal, Bangalore. These super premium homes christened ‘Villas In The Sky’ are luxury four bedroom apartments with study that come with exclusive features such as a private elevator, lap pool and Jacuzzi, raising the luxury quotient.
Track2Realty Exclusive: A Delhi-based brand strategist says property exhibitions are more about BTL (Below the Line) brand positioning. Requesting anonymity, he maintains that footfalls are not necessarily translated into actual buying. Even the sales figure that developers so glorify out of the property fest is, more often than not, accumulative sales figure of the given period.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Firstly, building on the company’s strong experience in the realty segment and the pioneering vision of creating new benchmarks for an aspirational lifestyle, we identified market value preposition in the two sectors.
Track2Realty: Office markets in India registered a downward trend in overall net absorption for the first three quarters of 2013, as per the latest report released by global real estate consultants, Cushman & Wakefield.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Brand building and maintaining the brand image is a big challenge for any business, and more so for in real estate where one has a direct contact with the end user. Moreover, brand positioning of the business of real estate is dependent on the overall eco system where demand and supply is dependent upon a host of external factors such as the state of the economy, government policies, etc.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The festivities around Navratra and Diwali are known to cheer up the sentiments of the property market. Reflection is always seen both in terms of upbeat mood of developers, as more launches are planned around this time, and the home buyers, as most of the bookings take place during this time.
Track2Realty: Less than 3 million sq.ft of office space entered India’s prime real estate market in the quarter ending September 2013—dropping by more than 75% q-o-q over last quarter’s 10 million sq.ft of fresh office space supply; and by nearly 50% over the same period last year.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a new concept in the Indian real estate and companies are going through the learning curve. Some are adopting it with greater amount of conviction, while for others it is an emerging necessary evil.
Track2Realty Exclusive: When it comes to the esteemed idea of real estate, industry stalwarts can boast that in this country, real estate can match up to any investment. As an investor though, you would require a little more convincing. So what should you look at? The answer stems to a more personal equation between liquidity, appreciation, other income, and probable growth.