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: Real estate in search of the twin objectives of sales and brand promotions has, of late, learnt that there is no better mechanism to achieve the both than property exhibitions. It brings many buyers & multiple sellers on board to showcase what is available in the given market.
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 Exclusive: Welcome to Ansaara Metro Park, a joint venture between Luxora Infrastructure and Aanya Group in one of the non-descript locations of Nagpur. Launched around three years back, it was projected to the media as Asia’s largest ‘Metro Park’. It has now proved to be a mere beating own trumpet for inviting journalists from Mumbai and Delhi.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Romesh Singh, a resident of Bhiwadi is quite confused with the city that is fast evolving. After having spent around seven years in Bhiwadi, the city is no more the same that he can relate with. The shopping complexes, malls and the emerging lifestyle is something that he thought is meant for metro cities. But the retail revolution in this till only recently sleeping city has changed everything, adding to the lifestyle choices and hence confusion among people like Romesh.
Track2Realty Exclusive: I won’t blame the marketing or the branding team in such a set-up where the defined role of corporate communication is very clear—advertising specialist is one who can negotiate the best rate with the media or the ad agencies, PR guy is one who can get them in column-centimetre of print and soundbytes of television studio and others are good for their dealing with the vendors to deliver brochure and other marketing kit on time. Any extra grey cell and one is a misfit in the company and liability for the management.
Track2Realty Exclusive: In recent times a lot of people have asked me as to whether Omkar Realtors is making a strategic shift from the slum redevelopment to super luxury segment.
Track2Realty: The total new housing demand will be nearly 12 million units in the next five years (2013- 17), according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). This is based on the estimated growth of population across India and in major cities. Of the pan India additional demand, the top 8 cities will constitute approximately 23%.