Ackruti City is in talks with a couple of private equity (PE) lenders to raise around Rs.150 crore by selling around 25% in its proposed redevelopment project in Chembur, north eastern suburb of Mumbai.
While many of the Indian cities are reeling under the apprehension of slowdown with sales nosediving, Pune real estate has defied any such apprehensions.
In Mumbai sales registrations for July 2011 are down 31% to 5,047 as against 6,500 in July 2010, pointing to the continuing downtrend, said real estate analysts for Prabhudas Lilladher.
Jones Lang LaSalle has launched a separate office in Andheri, Mumbai’s burgeoning commercial district.
The global research agency CRISIL has termed Jaipur as a goldmine for the real estate investment.
The property market in many Indian cities sees increased activity during festivals like Akshaya Tritiya, which are believed to be auspicious for the creation of wealth and good fortune.
When 80 years old Ramakant Apte in California read what filmmaker Karan Johar said about his birthplace Bandra as the new heart of the city, he got so nostalgic that India visit in general and moving around his good old queen of suburbs in particular was his wish list number one.
Pune is virtually unrecognizable from the sleepy, laid-back city it was a few decades ago. There were no signs of any significant real estate action in the erstwhile Punyanagari before that. Today, however, Pune numbers in the Top Seven property hotspots within the country.
It is an established fact that scheduled infrastructure projects tend to increase the value of properties in the adjoining areas. This occurs because the infrastructure project becomes a part of USP for the developers or property owners. There have been instances where property prices have increased 50-70% from the announcement of an infrastructure initiative until the operational phase.
Considering the amount of negative press they get, it is not immediately apparent that there are also less negative ways of looking at them. For instance, slums represent an extremely high-density model of residential settlement. In this respect, they make the most efficient use of limited land possible.