Track2Realty: Affordable housing is not only essential to the well-being and health of the people but also for the smooth running of economies. Yet all over the globe, in advanced and developing economies alike, a majority of the cities are struggling to give their citizens decent, affordable housing.
Track2Realty: Emerging trends in the workplace point to a revolution in the way workplaces operate in the next 15 years, according to a white paper launched jointly by CBRE and Genesis, a leading real estate innovator, developer and operator from China.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The home buyers’ have often been complaining about the lack of choice in the property market. It is not only the demand and supply gap that has been cribbed about, rather in the available segment also the available options have been few and far between.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Monday, Oct 13, banned DLF and six of its directors — KP Singh (Chairman), Rajiv Singh, TC Goyal, Pia Singh, Kameshwar Swarup and Ramesh Sanka — from trading in the securities market for three years.
Track2Realty: In a land-locked city like Pune, the importance of water is inescapable. Even at a national and global level, climactic changes as well as other factors are causing water levels to decrease.
Track2Realty: Positive market sentiments and a gradual global as well as domestic macro-economic recovery may finally be signaling the beginning of a revival in India’s corporate real estate segment. Various corporate firms, who had put their office space consolidation and expansion plans on hold over the previous couple of fiscals, finally began their transaction processes; and many concluded the same during the penultimate quarter of 2014.
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: CBRE’s India Office Market View for Q3 2014 reports on the status of Grade A office space in the country’s leading cities. The third quarter observed strong demand for prime office space with around 8 million sq. ft. of office space getting absorbed.
Track2Realty Exclusive: At a time when the buzz word across the country has been the inevitable reality of urbanisation and the need to create smart cities the urban planners are wondering which are the Indian cities that can claim to be close to the desired smart index. More importantly, which are the cities that have managed urban development along with the pace of business and economy to emerge as the truly developed cities with self sustaining physical and social infrastructure that could be a magnet for big ticket investment?
Track2Realty: US-based realty firm Hines has announced a tie-up with a global fund to invest US$ 250 million (over Rs 1,500 crore) in various housing projects in India.