Stocks of real estate companies suffered widespread losses on the BSE today dragging down the sectoral index by 3.14 per cent on all-round selling by funds on fears of rate hike by RBI to curb inflation.
Movenpick Hotels & Resorts has announced an upcoming property in Northern India; the Movenpick Dharamshala Resort & Spa, which is due to open in 2013.
Top Thai hotelier of Indian origin Sonu Shivdasani is making his debut in India with spas, resorts and fine dining restaurants and with plans for some well-appointed boutique hotels to tap high-end travelers.
Shares in developer DB Realty hit a record low on Monday after its Managing Director Shahid Balwa, embroiled in a widening telecom corruption investigation, resigned from his position.
Reforms in the real estate sector is the need of the hour for tackling issues like high stamp duty which often results in otherwise honest people having to deal in black money, according to the Economic Survey 2010-11 tabled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
The lease agreement between the NSCI and the BMC, accessed through RTI, show that the Olympic stadium and an adjoining club house had been let out to the former for 99-years in 1951 for an annual rent. The deal was that they could use the club house for their leisure activities while they would maintain the size Olympic stadium, which was suitable to host national and international sports including athletics, cycling, football and hockey.
DLF Brands, part of real estate company DLF, is venturing into the home furnishing segment. It aims to launch 30 home solution stores under the brand name ‘Pure Home+Living’ in the next three years at an investment of Rs 200 crore.
KORUM, Mumbai’s largest Shopping Mall by Kalpataru Retail Ventures Pvt Ltd, a Kalpataru Group company, has won the ‘Emerging Retailer of the Year Award’ (Real Estate) at the 7th Asia Retail Congress, held in Mumbai recently.
Chicago-based Vestian Global Workplace Services, an integrated real estate services provider has announced to invest Rs 1,500 crore in India and China over the next 18 months. The company, which raised the fund from global investors, said about 70 per cent of the proposed investment was earmarked for the Indian market.
Jones Lang LaSalle today announced it has launched a website – Lease Accounting Changes, to deliver leading-edge strategies, tools, and information to help corporations worldwide navigate the upcoming changes in global lease accounting treatment.