Track2Realty: A reported provision in the proposed law to regulate the real estate sector to send individual or an entity to jail for “misleading” advertisements would be quite a retrograde and adversarial step for investment in the realty sector as it would be open to misuse by a few corrupt officials, ASSOCHAM said on Friday, March 29.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Consultancy firm DTZ India believes with abundant quality supply scheduled in next 2-3 years and fast paced development of infrastructure, Golf Course Extension Road in Gurgaon and Greater Noida Expressway are the emerging markets for office space.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The Indian real sector has evoked mixed response to the Union Budget 2013-14, though by and large there is optimism within the sector. Here are some of the responses—
Track2Realty: India faces shortage of fresh supply of houses, the Technical Group on the Estimation of Housing Shortage projects the total shortage of dwelling units in urban areas in 2012 to be 18.78 million, said a report by Knight Frank Research.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of South Zone
Bangalore is the only major metro in the country which saw a year-on-year increase in take-up of office space in 2012. The total take-up increased by 9% to 8.3 million sq ft in Q1-Q3 2012, from 7.7million sq ft in the year-ago period as a number of occupiers took-up space for their future requirement for consolidation and expansion.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Housing prices have risen in 18 major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, by up to 9.6 per cent during the October-December period 2012 compared with the previous quarter, according to National Housing Bank (NHB).
Track2Realty: 2012 presented the real estate sector with an array of challenges. Valuable lessons were learnt as the real estate markets dealt with the uncertainties surrounding the local and global economic fundamentals. Many of these uncertainties persist in 2013. DTZ is now embarking upon a new journey this year and putting risk back into perspective is the war cry.
Track2Realty: SARE Homes has appointed Parvin Kumar Jain as Director-…
Track2Realty: Despite an 83% drop in supply of organised retail space across key cities in the country, 2012 continued to witness an increase in transaction activity and retailer expansion. According to the findings of CBRE’s latest report “Indian Retail Market View H2, 2012”, approximately 2.5 million sq.ft. of fresh retail space entered the market in 2012, mainly concentrated in Bangalore, Kolkata and Pune, as against over 15 million sq.ft. in 2011.
Track2Realty Exclusive:
India Offices 2012
Markets remained cautious but poised for an upturn
The year 2012 began on a cautious note, in the wake of a slowdown in domestic economic growth and a tepid outlook on the performance of the world economy. So far during this year (Q1 2012 to Q3 2012), the overall performance of the office real estate market in the country remained mute compared to the same period in 2011.