Track2Realty-Agencies: Developers are hopeful of clearing a large portion of their inventory pile-up during this festive season by luring in buyers with freebies and discounts, even as they sit tight on declared prices, said industry experts.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The property rates and cost of living in the metros like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore have been soaring drastically over the years and owing to this, these cities have reached a kind of stagnation in terms of real estate and retail growth. This scenario has shifted the focus of investors as well as the customers towards the tier II & tier III cities.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Media creates perception in the collective consciousness that realty debts are a cause of concern. It is generally assumed that a debt-ridden company is not the right one to invest. However, business cycle of some of these over leveraged companies is not just better than peers, but also high in terms of brand equity. Track2Realty finds that over projected magnitude of realty debt may or may not be a reality.
Track2Realty: Top eight major cities witnessed a total mall supply of 2.94 million square feet (msf) (3 malls) during the first half of 2013 with over 64% (13 malls) of the total expected supply deferred, says a report by Cushman & Wakefield.
Track2Realty: Satya Group and Maple Group have launched fully furnished serviced apartments, “Element One” at Sector 47 and 49, Gurgaon. These contemporary designed high end serviced apartments are amongst the latest in the commercial projects trend and development, which can serve as private suites or can be utilized for office purposes.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Historically, the involvement of women in matters relating to real estate has been there as it was always a small scale family run business. So, handling administrative and employee management was a common role of developer wife’s.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Many luxury brands have a rich pedigree, seventh P of branding, and extraordinary history that become an inseparable part of the brand story. The mystique and the legend is generally built around the exceptional emotive founder character of past.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The Government of India envisages one trillion dollar investment in all areas of infrastructure in the 12th five year plan (year 2012 to 2017). The Government wants fifty percent of this investment to come from the private sector participation and most of these projects are expected to utilize the Private – Public partnership (PPP) model.
Track2Realty-Agencies: State-run construction giant National Bildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) says it plans to aggressively tap the real estate market and has set a target to build 10,000 housing units by 2018, entailing an investment of about Rs 6,000 crore.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The RBI needs to put its act together before its next monetary policy review on July 30. In the wake of sluggish pace of economy, the Reserve Bank’s status quo on key policy rates in its last monetary policy sent a wave of disappointment in the industry.