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-Agencies: The Centre will soon appoint real estate experts and consultants in 15 major states for helping them to prepare affordable housing policy and streamline the rules for approving realty projects, a top government official said on Wednesday, Oct 23.
Track2Realty: Century 21 Real Estate, the franchisor of the residential real estate sales organization, has expanded in India with the signing of a master franchise agreement to open CENTURY 21 franchises in India. Alchemist Group has become the master franchisor of the CENTURY 21 System for India operating as CENTURY 21 India.
Track2Realty Exclusive: At a time when the critics had it that successful women in realty sector are mostly the inheritors of realtors’ families, or otherwise highly skilled work force like the architects, some home makers have proved it wrong yet again. These are the home makers who have been equally successful as home agents as well.
Track2Realty: India has been ranked as the second most risk prone location for hosting Datacentre Operations according to the annual ‘Datacenter Risk Index 2013’ survey released by international consultants Cushman & Wakefield in association with hurleypalmerflatt and Source8. The ‘Data Centre Risk Index 2013’ identifies risks likely to affect the successful operation of data centre facilities in the 30 most important global markets.
Track2Realty: In a bid to strengthen its presence in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), developers body MCHI-CREDAI has decided to set up its Youth Wing and increasingly involve the generation next.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The debate of promoter versus professional driven realty companies gained momentum in the year 2012 because high attrition at the top level of realty sector has been in the news throughout the year. The Managing Directors of Indiabulls Real Estate and Peninsula Land quit in the month of October. So did the real estate heads of two property funds, Indiareit and Everstone Capital. Most of them either moved to other realty companies, starting their own ventures or shifting streams to join consultancies.
Pranay Vakil: Good afternoon everyone. We are indeed sitting in one of the most interesting market of real estate when I feel the developer is confused, the buyer is confused and the government is confused.
Jhumur Ghosh: The most confused.
Pranay Vakil: You said it, I didn’t. The buyer is confused because every day he is reading in the newspapers that prices are going down, but when he goes out to buy a house he finds that prices have actually gone up. I think the lender is confused because he is lending money and the developer is making all kinds of commitment and things are not working out the way it was promised and he is unable to understand why it is not happening.
Track2Realty: Godrej Properties has launched its commercial development, Godrej BKC. Godrej BKC occupies a corner plot in the middle of India’s most prestigious and desirable commercial address, the Bandra-Kurla Complex.
Track2Realty Exclusive-Yearly Analysis: The unprecedented restructuring of project portfolio, selling of land bank, exiting non-core business and the job cuts have yet not led the Indian real estate into the desired comfort zone. The realization to shed the flab has on the contrary left some of the developers to outsource the project execution and pay more.