Track2Realty Exclusive: Direct investment in case of leveraged returns has to take into account carrying cost (interest cost) and in case of non leveraged returns should consider opportunity cost.
Track2Realty: Godrej Properties has announced the launch of Phase 5 in its township project Godrej Garden City (GGC) in Ahmedabad. This new phase will offer 2BHK and 3BHK apartments at prices starting at Rs. 35 lakhs. The company has also launched convenience retail in GGC.
Track2Realty: Godrej Properties has launched affordable housing scheme in their township project Godrej Garden City (GGC) in Ahmedabad. Five new towers, each ground plus 12 storeys tall, will offer affordable 1 BHK apartments each measuring 600 sq. ft. at prices starting from Rs. 16.5 lacs. Each tower will be equipped with 2 lifts and all apartments are open from two sides with no two apartments overlooking each other.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Government plans to set up a tough regulator for the real estate sector with provisions for even jail term for the developer for putting out misleading advertisements about projects.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of South Zone (Bangalore)
Retail leasing activity in Bangalore remained active through 2012 due to the opening of a few malls particularly in the Whitefield micro-market. Apart from the stable leasing activity seen through the year, space enquiries from retailers during the period point to the fact that a number of them remained bullish on their medium to long term prospects due to the increasing affluence of the growing middle class.
Track2Realty: The February 2013 ComScore report released recently has declared MagicBricks.com as emerged as the No 1 Property Portal on all traffic metrics of audience measurement in its report. ComScore is the internationally recognized media metric tracker for internet portals.
Track2Realty Roundtable Panelists—Dr Anil Sharma, CMD, Amrapali Group
Sunil Dahiya—Sr Vice President, NAREDCO & MD Vigneshwara Developers
Harmit Chawla—MD, HCorp Realty
PK Tripathi, President, Unitech
Moderator—Ravi Sinha, CEO & Managing Editor, Track2Realty
Track2Realty Exclusive: In the current scenario, investment in Real estate sector has been a challenging task due to complexity of the real estate markets in various cities. The complexity has evolved as a result of local planning regulations, social and demographic features, economic profile and legacy issues.
Track2Realty Roundtable Panelists—Dr Anil Sharma, CMD, Amrapali Group
Sunil Dahiya—Sr Vice President, NAREDCO & MD Vigneshwara Developers
Harmit Chawla—MD, HCorp Realty
PK Tripathi—President, Unitech
Moderator—Ravi Sinha, CEO & Managing Editor, Track2Realty
Ravi Sinha: Would any of you agree that the pipeline visibility and land bank suddenly has turned out to be a land liability?
Track2Realty-Agencies: Vibgyor Real Estate, a part of the Rs. 800 crore Vibgyor Group, has signed in leading Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta as its brand ambassador, a company official said.