Realty leading in corporate M&A
Real estate along with information technology and financial sectors cornered nearly 52 per cent share in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) out of 68 deals during June and July.
Real estate along with information technology and financial sectors cornered nearly 52 per cent share in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) out of 68 deals during June and July.
A day after the Noida Authority clinched a deal with the agitating farmers, the farmers of the villages along the Yamuna Expressway held a ‘panchayat’ in Gautam Buddha Nagar district on Sunday, July 31, and demanded higher compensation for their land.
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) has asked builders, whose projects in Patwari have been affected by the high court order, to move the Supreme Court.
The Keventer Group is planning to step up its activities in Bengal & Bihar, including a major foray into real estate.
ICICI Ventures-backed Delta Corp has acquired 51 per cent stake in Daman Hospitality Pvt Ltd for Rs 50 crore in its second acquisition this year.
Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd. plans to raise as much as $500 million by hiving off some of its properties into a real-estate investment trust, or REIT, and listing it in Singapore.
Indian real estate is expected to face “large-scale distress” amid rising borrowing costs and shrinking access to credit that may force developers into fire sales for assets, according to Knight Frank.
Real estate traditionally has always had the perception of being a sector where ‘land & buildings’ was the language required and ‘people skills’ were of no great relevance. But, now, even big Real estate players are soon beginning to understand the importance of effective ‘client servicing’, enhanced ‘team productivity’ and professional ‘managerial skills’.
Atlanta Ltd has announced that it is a company with deep rooted presence in three of the country’s fastest growing segments; infrastructure development, mining and realty.
Private equity investments continue to trickle into project or SPV level in the realty space. Sun Apollo India Real Estate Fund LLC, a $630-million India-dedicated real estate private equity fund, has invested Rs 100 crore in a residential project SPV led by Parsvnath Developers Limited (PDL). SUN-Apollo will invest Rs 100 crore for a 49.9% stake in the project SPV, Parsvnath Buildwell Private Limited, which will develop a premium residential project at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, spread over an area of 31 acres. The project is called Parsvnath Exotica- Ghaziabad.