Track2Realty: The prime office space segment across key cities in India are witnessing an improvement in sentiment from last year. According to CBRE’s latest report, India Office Market View Q1 2013, prime office space absorption across key cities in India witnessed approximately 17% increase in Q1, 2013 as compared to Q1, 2012.
Track2Realty: DTZ annual office space forecast says 21% increase in take-up is expected. Overall take-up stood at 4.80 million sq ft for Q1, a sharp drop of circa 29% from previous quarter. Mumbai witnessed the highest take-up of 1.25 million sq ft, an increase of 3% q-o-q.
Track2Realty: The prime office space segment across key cities in India are witnessing an improvement in sentiment from last year. According to CBRE’s latest report, India Office Market View Q1 2013, prime office space absorption across key cities in India witnessed a 37% increase in Q1, 2013 as compared to Q1, 2012.
Track2Realty Exclusive: East Zone (Kolkata) The overall retail market in the city continued to display sluggish trend with only a few major retailers expanding their operations in large format standalone stores in established high street locations.
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Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of East Zone
The transaction activity registered in Kolkata in 2012 was down by 42% during Q1-Q3 2012 compared to the year ago period. The subdued demand is the result of the uncertainty prevailing in both the global as well as domestic markets. Most of the corporates have trimmed their expansion plans and instead looking at consolidation to optimize their real estate usage and bring down the costs.
Track2Realty: India faces shortage of fresh supply of houses, the Technical Group on the Estimation of Housing Shortage projects the total shortage of dwelling units in urban areas in 2012 to be 18.78 million, said a report by Knight Frank Research.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Housing prices have risen in 18 major cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, by up to 9.6 per cent during the October-December period 2012 compared with the previous quarter, according to National Housing Bank (NHB).
Track2Realty-Agencies: Sudhakar Shetty-promoted real estate company Sahana Group is set to foray into television media segment with two news channels.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Moderation in new supply brought the vacancy down
During 2012, the new supply dropped by a whopping 40% y-o-y to 18 million sq ft, as across many cities, the slow adjustment of supply with the changing demand patterns took effect. Bangalore was the only exception to this, where the new supply rose by a whopping 35% y-o-y, as a number of developments which had been fast tracked in response to the sharp recovery in demand in the city since 2010, got completed during the period.