Track2Realty: Indiaproperty.com has launched the IndiaProperty App for the recently launched Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 users can get the immediate benefit of the property search experience from the IndiaProperty App that is already available in the Windows Store, which will simplify and enhance their property search experience.
Track2Realty: Central Bank of India is looking ahead to cloak a total business of Rs 10,000 crore from home loan segment. The bank has been aggressively targeting prospective home seekers through its various initiatives.
Track2Realty: Real estate sentiment remains fragile, most notably in the occupier markets in Europe, as the global economy continues to face strong and persistent headwinds. The recession in Europe, coupled with only modest growth in the US and a slowdown in China has resulted in global economic prospects being no more certain than in the previous quarter. These are the findings of These are the findings of the latest RICS Global Commercial Property Survey.
Track2Realty: Jennifer Layke is the Director of Johnson Controls’ Institute for Building Efficiency, a global initiative to provide information and analysis of technologies, policies, and practices in high performance buildings and smart energy systems from a practitioner’s perspective. She leads the Institute’s research agenda and collaborations with a network of global experts on topical areas including commercial building efficiency, smart buildings & the smart grid, green building design, and renewable energy technologies.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The preferred asset for Indian investors is real estate sector, followed by gold and silver, a survey today said. “The investment pattern in the country suggests that investment flow have been highest in the traditional modes of investments such as in real estate market followed by gold and silver,” the survey of PHDCCI said.
Track2Realty: Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) recently got the green signal from SEBI to launch its first residential focused fund in India. It plans to raise $57 Mn.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Two more entities have received market regulator SEBI’s approval to set-up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), a newly created class of pooled-in investment vehicles for real estate, private equity and hedge funds.
Track2Realty-Agencies: India has launched an ambitious Rs 1,300 crore housing project in northern Sri Lanka to build brand new homes for about 43,000 ethnic Tamil families displaced due to the civil war in the country.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Manish Aggarwal, Executive Director, India as the North India operations lead for all service lines. Manish will be responsible for providing strategic direction to Cushman & Wakefield’s Northern India business and facilitate enhanced service delivery.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The landmark of central Delhi and a premium property & hospitality asset, the Taj Mahal Hotel, remains with the Tata for another year till the property goes under the hammer.