Track2Realty Exclusive: The steady growth of the Coimbatore property market even in the wake of the overall economic slowdown makes it a curious case for many analysts. It is convenient to say that the market of Coimbatore real estate is by and large end-user driven and hence a realistic market to sustain the effects of slowdown.
Track2Realty: Sobha Developers, on a consolidated basis, registered a turnover of Rs. 10.08 Billion during the first half of FY 2013-14. The Profit before Tax (PBT) stood at Rs. 1.71 Billion, and the Profit after Tax (PAT) was Rs. 1.07 Billion. On a year-on-year basis, Revenues have increased by 18%, PBT by 21% and PAT by 12% from its operations.
Track2Realty: The 3C Company has aligned with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world’s leading luxury hospitality company to present Northern India’s first Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences. The strategic partnership between the two companies was sealed with an exclusive agreement for 25 years, thus ensuring that this would be the only Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences in Delhi NCR for the agreed term.
Track2Realty: The overall vacancy levels in malls declined by 0.6 percentage to 14.51% on account of consistent leasing activities while supply has been only 0.77 msf gets added in Kolkata and Pune, says a retail report by Cushman & Wakefield. Healthy transaction activity led to reduction in overall mall vacancy of Pune and Kolkata despite the addition of fresh mall space in both the cities.
Track2Realty Exclusive: While the property markets in other parts of the country are busy with festive offers, Coimbatore real estate is showing no signs of gift, freebies and other marketing lucrative schemes. Prima facie it may seem like the festive buying of homes is not a reality in this part of the world, and hence no developer is bothered to lure the home buyers with gold coins, cars, foreign tours or outright discount.
Track2Realty: top eight cities witnessed total estimated residential unit launches of 132,000 units between January to September 2013 which represented an increase of 5% as compared the to the same period for 2012, says a report by Cushman & Wakefield (C&W).
Track2Realty: Thapar Builders have launched their new residential project, Arthah, the first 26-storey residential complex in Vaishali at Ghaziabad. Arthah has been designed by architectural firm, Morphogenesis and it is close to the Vaishali Metro Station.
Track2Realty: The announcement by the markets regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to introduce a separate regulatory framework under the proposed draft SEBI (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2013 has brought cheers to the real estate sector. And if implemented, REITs can bring back the growth to the sector, said industry experts, who gathered at the RICS Real Estate Conference 2013 – Regaining Business Confidence. The conference was organized on 25thOctober 2013 in Mumbai.
Track2Realty Exclusive: We have been through three key stages of evolution in facilities management in India and now stand at the cusp of the fourth, and most exciting, one. The first was prior to the growth years for India and existed from independence to around the mid-1990s.
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.