With nearly a hundred malls in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), it has become the default mall capital of India. No other city comes close to the number of operational malls that are found in Delhi-NCR.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The time of transition for the Indian real estate and construction sector has finally arrived. Since last few years, a number of regulations pertaining to the real estate market were put on hold. A number of them are now at the draft stage waiting for Parliament’s approvals.
Track2Realty: We are currently witnessing a market scenario wherein inflation and interest rates will taper down even as the GDP growth rate picks up, and selective asset classes are becoming increasingly attractive for investment. International market dynamics suggests that gold and crude oil will continue to weaken, and commodities as an overall asset class will continue to display weakness because of easing inflation.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Prayag Damodar returned to the home town Ahmedabad after having spent 14 long years in the Gulf region where the only option of living has been high rises and skyscrapers. He had developed the liking for such vertical living so much that he had a feeling of missing that sky high living back home as the prevailing housing culture has been standalone residential units when he left the city.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has appointed Shouvik Purkayastha as the Executive Director of Capital Markets in India. Shouvik is a financial professional with over 15 years of experience with expertise Investment Banking and Corporate Banking.
Track2Realty Exclusive: A stable property market otherwise, Pune like any other city has also been witness to the slow sales in the last few years. The overall macro-economic slowdown had taken its on the psyche of the home buyers who were sceptical about the fortunes of the city property market. Even the buyers who had no affordability issue were also not unaffected by the bearish sentiments.
Track2Realty: While buying a home in India, stamp duty and registration charges are the most significant additional costs above the base price of the property itself. Close on the heels of this expense come the costs involved in registering with the local electricity board and having a meter fitted.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Critics who had till very recently criticised the projection of Noida as a corporate city on the grounds that the city lacks commercial activity and an international airport may soon have reasons enough to eat their own words. Scaling up from just being an affordable destination the seemingly poor cousin of Delhi-NCR is today giving its superior peer markets a tough competition in its march to emerge as a landmark corporate hub.
Track2Realty Exclusive: One of the most ardent desires of an individual is to own a house with location and comfort being the determining factors in most of the cases. However, to get access to shopping facilities or entertainment hubs or medical care or even to commute to workplace remains a sheer imagination almost beyond fulfilment in India.
Track2Realty: CBRE received 11 national awards and the peak regional award for Best Property Consultancy for the second year running at the prestigious Asia Pacific Property Awards 2014. CBRE India received the Highly Commended award in the Property Consultancy category for the second year in a row.