Demand for office space to increase to 30 mn sq ft this year: DTZ
Track2Realty: The demand for office space is likely to increase to 30.5 million sq ft this year, global real estate advisor DTZ said.
Track2Realty: The demand for office space is likely to increase to 30.5 million sq ft this year, global real estate advisor DTZ said.
Track2Realty Exclusive: For quite some time the developers in Mumbai were making pitch for the review of FSI in the city which they termed as archaic. Their grouse has not been lacking the merit also. Facts speak for themselves. In 1964, FSI was introduced and set at 4.5 in Mumbai.
Pranay Vakil: Good afternoon everyone. We are indeed sitting in one of the most interesting market of real estate when I feel the developer is confused, the buyer is confused and the government is confused.
Jhumur Ghosh: The most confused.
Pranay Vakil: You said it, I didn’t. The buyer is confused because every day he is reading in the newspapers that prices are going down, but when he goes out to buy a house he finds that prices have actually gone up. I think the lender is confused because he is lending money and the developer is making all kinds of commitment and things are not working out the way it was promised and he is unable to understand why it is not happening.
Track2Realty-Agencies: While the promoters of realty firms in India are wary of selling stake and instead choosing institutional placement programme (IPP) over share auction to bring down holding to comply with regulatory norms, Bangalore-based Puravankara Projects has also plans to raise around Rs 450 through IPP route.
Track2Realty Exclusive: A marginal rate cut/hike time again evokes reactions across the industries and the blame game continues where the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) defends its balancing act of controlling inflation and the industry captains slam its short term outlook of stop gap arrangement.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of South Zone (Bangalore)
Retail leasing activity in Bangalore remained active through 2012 due to the opening of a few malls particularly in the Whitefield micro-market. Apart from the stable leasing activity seen through the year, space enquiries from retailers during the period point to the fact that a number of them remained bullish on their medium to long term prospects due to the increasing affluence of the growing middle class.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Compared to other countries in Asia, India still lags behind on the transparency parameter. But we are increasingly scaling up with the data availability for the retail and residential sectors improving across all tiers led by the fast-paced development of the residential sector and modern retail formats.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Real estate players and analysts on Tuesday welcomed the Reserve Bank’s move to cut short-term lending rates, but said that more such steps are needed to bring growth back to the sector.
Track2Realty: Expressing disappointment over the RBI’s decision to cut repo rate by “just” 25 basis points, realtors’ apex body CREDAI said the central bank appears to missing opportunities time and again.
Track2Realty Exclusive: In the current scenario, investment in Real estate sector has been a challenging task due to complexity of the real estate markets in various cities. The complexity has evolved as a result of local planning regulations, social and demographic features, economic profile and legacy issues.