Track2Realty: Tata Housing has got an investment by Portman Holdings into its luxury housing project “The Promont” in Bengaluru. This is the first private equity funding for a Tata Housing project.
Track2Realty: CREDAI has expressed strong resentment to the Union Government’s proposal for compulsory reservation of 35% of dwelling units built for the economically weaker sections (EWS).
Track2Realty: The total new demand that could be generated for residential dwellings in the period 2012 – 16 will be 11.8 million units across India, says a new report by Cushman & Wakefield. Of the total additional demand, the top 8 cities will be constituting 18% or 2.1 million units across categories. The annual report “Evolving Paradigm – Future Of Indian Real Estate” is in association with Global Real Estate Institute (GRI).
Tata Housing and Arvind Real Estate, the real estate arm of Arvind Limited has announced the launch of the phase-II of the 135 acre integrated sustainable township in Ahmedabad.
An estimated 17500 residential units were launched by organised developers in the second quarter of 2012 in major cities across the country, registering a decline of nearly 44% over the previous quarter, says a report by global real estate consultancy, Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). This decline in launches can be attributed to a number of factors such as delay in approvals, significant inventory in certain locations as well as postponement of project to coincide new launches with the festival season.
Pointing out that real estate development can revive the sagging economy, developers’ apex body CREDAI has called for launching a mission to make India Housing Surplus from the current status of a housing deficit nation by 2020.
Does it reflect a disconnect in the luxury housing where demand of high-end units is 16% but supply is as high as 80%? “Not Really.” says Anmol Haval DGM, Sales & Marketing of City Corporation Limited (CCL) which has launched ‘Sweet Water Villas’, an exclusive project of limited edition villas at ‘Amanora’, the first integrated township being developed under the special township policy of Government of Maharashtra.
The Economic Survey, while recognising the importance of the services sector (it accounts for 59 per cent of gross domestic product), has raised concern over the second largest economic activity–housing & real estate. Three months after the government rolled back its decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, the survey referred to it as a major challenge before the sector.
Real estate developer Surendra Hiranandani, who owns Hiranandani Upscale, plans to enter the luxury housing space under the Signature brand.
More than half a dozen builders, including Ahmedabad-based Bakeri Group, Lodha Developers and Indiabulls Real Estate, have either pulled out of the affordable-housing segment or have changed their offering.