Track2Realty: Approximately 8 million sq. ft. of office space was leased across eight major cities during the quarter. Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune topped the chart in the total office market absorption.
Track2Realty Exclusive: IT driven locations across the country has been witness to the migration of large educated workforce, be it Bangalore, Gurgaon or Pune. This upwardly mobile, well-earning and lifestyle driven class hence becomes a key demand driver of property in the given city. In Pune the expat Indians have thus emerged as the key demand driver of property.
Track2Realty: The emerging cities continue to dominate the rental growth in the region with Jakarta (Indonesia) witnessing the highest office rental growth (yoy) among 33 cities in Asia, followed by Manila (Philippines) at 2nd position and Shenzhen (China) at 3rd Pune (India) at 4th position while NCR (India) ranked at 10, says Asia Office Q1 2014 report of Cushman & Wakefield.
Track2Realty: A burgeoning automobile ancillary industry and the IT/ITeS sector’s growing presence have been the major growth drivers behind the notable transformation of Maharashtra’s second largest city—Pune. Over the past couple of years, the city’s IT sector in particular has seen significant growth, leading to sustained demand for office space in the city.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While the infrastructure of Pune has been comparably better than many urban centres across the country, there is no denying the fact that the kind of urbanisation and migration that is happening in the city the load on the infrastructure is increasingly getting heavy. Moreover, since most of the infrastructure has been created by the private developers in the city of late; hence there has been uneven growth of infrastructure across the city.
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-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 Exclusive: Urbanisation is inevitable but when the very same model of development is rolled out haphazardly it also brings its side effects. Many urban cities across the country are witness to the fact with the loss of its traditional old world charm and eventually the city losing its very identity.
Track2Realty: Kolte-Patil Developers (KDPL) has launched four new luxury projects- Tuscan Estate Signature Meadows, Downtown, 24K Glamore and 3rd Avenue at Life Republic in Pune to develop a total of 1.8 million sq.ft. for these new projects.
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.