Recently an acquaintance – a fund manager by profession – relocated to India to set-up a domestic PE fund here. He had invested in a Mumbai residential property strategically located close to the primary business district and an international school for his kid.
India is the ninth largest construction market in the world according to a Global Construction 2020 report by Oxford Economics. Growing at an estimated cumulative annual growth rate of 8.9%, it is expected to become the third largest market by 2020 and is globally acknowledged as an extremely lucrative business opportunity.
The implementation of the revised DTC will have strong implications on SEZs. The industry requires clarity on the issues that may emerge, and how businesses would be promoted in Special Economic Zones.
Where does ‘Team Anglo Indian’ consider opportunities for Indian real estate right now?
The demand for holiday homes in India is as wired into the country’s overall economic performance as every other segment of residential real estate.
Fitch Ratings’ outlook for 2012 for the Indian real estate sector is negative due to weak overall demand and higher construction costs, which are likely to continue to squeeze margins.
The Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) has claimed that the three-day India Realty Show 2012 organised at Dubai over the last week-end has evoked an enthusiastic response from among serious property buyers.
Cumulative take-up across India‟s seven largest cities increased by a modest 8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2011.
IL&FS Investment Managers, India’s only listed private equity fund, has acquired 9.4% shareholding in an Indiabulls’ firm that is developing the 8.3-acre Bharat Mills at Worli in south central Mumbai.
India which is building the world’s second-tallest skyscraper, is catching up with China in an office building boom that may indicate that an economic slowdown is imminent, according to Barclays Capital Research.