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: 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: The numerous options available in these markets are a great advantage. With many constructions under progress, be it commercial space for offices, shops or residential houses/apartments, there is plenty of options to choose from.
Track2Realty: Mumbai witnessed sluggish commercial leasing activity during the third quarter of 2013. The micro markets of Lower Parel, Thane and Navi Mumbai witnessed maximum traction and were the preferred region for office space leasing. Rental values in Mumbai remained largely stable with marginal dip in the CBD and ABD locations, according to the findings of CBRE’s latest report,India Office Market View Q3 2013.
Track2Realty: Lotus Greens announced on Monday, Oct 7, that Red Fort Capital, one of the leading Real Estate Private Equity firm, will be investing 1000 crores in various projects of Lotus Greens.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Seen as the poor cousin of Gurgaon-Manesar till only recently, Bhiwadi is fast emerging as the property hot spot and the price appreciation in this sleepy town not long ago has actually been steadfast in the last four-five years.
Track2Realty: The estimated demand for office space across the top eight Indian cities in the period of 2013 – 2017 is expected to be 132 million square feet (msf), says a report by Cushman & Wakefield. Office space absorption in top eight cities is expected to be approximately 22.5 msf in 2013 which will be a decline of approximately 26% over 2012.
Track2Realty Exclusive: We all understand that real estate needs a facelift and brand management from the industry standpoint. The sector has indeed come a long way in the last around ten years but we still need to work on the trust deficit in the sector.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield have estimated that the share of luxury retail space in India will be a modest 1.44% by 2015 as against the current 1% even as total retail malls stock is set to increase by 27% by 2015.
Track2Realty: Kolte-Patil Developers (KDPL) has launched four new luxury projects- Tuscan Estate Signature Meadows, Downtown, 24K Glamore and 3rd Avenue at Life Republic in Pune to develop a total of 1.8 million sq.ft. for these new projects.