Fortis to raise funds via Singapore REIT listing
Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd. plans to raise as much as $500 million by hiving off some of its properties into a real-estate investment trust, or REIT, and listing it in Singapore.
Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd. plans to raise as much as $500 million by hiving off some of its properties into a real-estate investment trust, or REIT, and listing it in Singapore.
Jaypee Sports International Ltd (JSIL) that will host India’s first ever F1 Grand Prix on its track in October this year on Monday said it expects to garner about Rs.150 crore from ticket sales of the race.
Indian real estate is expected to face “large-scale distress” amid rising borrowing costs and shrinking access to credit that may force developers into fire sales for assets, according to Knight Frank.
Parsvnath Developers is looking to raise up to Rs.200 crore by selling stakes in two group housing projects to private equity firms.
Emaar Properties PJSC, Dubai’s largest real-estate firm, has asked consultants and investment bankers to value its Indian joint venture Emaar MGF Land Ltd’s assets.
Indian house prices rose rapidly from 2002 to 2007. Strong economic growth and urbanization supported house prices, while in city centres a housing bubble was encouraged by inadequate infrastructure, lack of planning and antiquated land use laws.
Kotak Realty Fund, the property investment arm of India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank, plans to raise as much as USD 500 million by the second quarter of this year, in a bet on the long term case for property in Asia’s third-largest economy, a top official said.
Mumbai saw a steep rise in property prices during the boom period of 2008. However, the economic slowdown in 2009 led to a property market crash which made itself very tangible in Mumbai in the first quarter of 2009, stabilizing by the middle of year and rising again between the 3rd and 4th quarters.
Supertech will invest Rs 600 crore to develop a 255 metre tall residential tower in Noida. The company will offer a total of 1,326 housing units with prices of up to Rs 2.25 crore in the tower that it claims will be the tallest in North India. “The project, North Eye, will be the tallest in entire region with 60 floors and 255 metre height.
With only $400-500 million of foreign funds flowed into the Indian real estate sector in 2009-10, the outlook ahead seems to be far from being rosy.