Century Real Estate to set up Rs 100 crore VC Fund
Bangalore-based property firm Century Real Estate Holdings is reportedly setting up a venture capital fund with a corpus of around Rs.100 crore.
Bangalore-based property firm Century Real Estate Holdings is reportedly setting up a venture capital fund with a corpus of around Rs.100 crore.
The real estate sector has welcomed the CRR rate cut by the RBI and said it will help revive demand in the housing segment.
Judging by feedback obtained from a cross-section of Indian retail players, it emerges that most retailers perceived 2011 to be a flat year.
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.
Rising cost and falling transactions are taking their toll on the property market in both the Delhi-NCR and Mumbai.
With the market set to bottom by out by the second quarter of 2012, we will see the beginning of a recovery in the city’s residential real estate fortunes by the second half of the year.
A real estate regulator will enforce public disclosure and bring in much needed transparency and accountability in the sector and there is overwhelming support for setting up such an entity.
Issues concerning the regulation and development of real estate were discussed on Wednesday, Jan 11, by the government with various stakeholders.
The Indian real estate sector has grown rapidly over the last few years, with its stakeholder profile evolving from locally-focused, privately-owned enterprises to increasingly corporatized, professional organizations funded with public capital and having multiple market and product strategies.
Amidst the turbulence of many of the world’s largest economies, particularly in western markets such as the US and European economies, the broader macro economic outlook in Asia is encouraging.