DLF to set up Infopark in Orissa
DLF, India’s biggest real estate developer, will develop its Rs 1000-crore Infopark project spread over 54 acres in Bhubaneswar in phases.
DLF, India’s biggest real estate developer, will develop its Rs 1000-crore Infopark project spread over 54 acres in Bhubaneswar in phases.
Emaar Properties PJSC, Dubai’s largest real-estate firm, has asked consultants and investment bankers to value its Indian joint venture Emaar MGF Land Ltd’s assets.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, is not worried with the DB Realty’s scam. The Chicago-headquartered group is going ahead with plans of opening five hotels with the Mumbai-based DB Group.
Global hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has opened its fourth India property in Chennai. According to the company release, the five-star 204-room Hilton Chennai, positioned as a business hotel, is owned by Empee Group, which has diversified interests from alcoholic beverages to property development.
Real Estate developers across the country have termed the Union Budget 2011-12 as a tie cricket match which can’t be termed as won or lost. However, they are all unanimous that it is not a game changer budget for the sector.
Mumbai city has been known to receive heavy rainfall during the monsoons. Being a coastal city, Mumbai needs to understand the requirement for costal construction and heavy rainfall. More than 80% of the pre-1990s construction is in distress because of poor quality material and harshness of environment. Despite all this, Mumbai was one of the last cities to take up blended cement that helps fight problems related to waterproofing.
Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) India has announced the launch of ‘Millionaire Homes 2011’, after the successful series of Millionaire Homes 2009 and 2010 held in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. The event is designed as a platform for connoisseurs of lifestyle and fine living, to experience some of the finest concepts in luxury homes in India.
Baring Private Equity Partners India (BPEP), along with some of its international investors, is likely to invest about $75 million, or approximately Rs 350 crore, in the Bangalore-based Century Real Estate. Baring’s individual commitment to the deal is around $53 million, while overseas investors who are backing the fund may bring in a little over $20 million in additional investment.
The Enforcement Directorate has asked the intelligence officers in different Indian Missions to check the money trail in the 2G spectrum scam. Special Director, ED has sent out communiqués to Cyprus, Mauritius, British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Isle of Man, Singapore, Dubai, and Tripoli (Libya, Norway).
Pune is virtually unrecognizable from the sleepy, laid-back city it was a few decades ago. There were no signs of any significant real estate action in the erstwhile Punyanagari before that. Today, however, Pune numbers in the Top Seven property hotspots within the country.