Equinox Realty to invest Rs. 4000 crore in residential project
Equinox Realty, the property development arm of Essar group, has announced plans to invest around Rs 4,000 crore to develop residential units across the country.
Equinox Realty, the property development arm of Essar group, has announced plans to invest around Rs 4,000 crore to develop residential units across the country.
According to the 2010 census, Mumbai now houses around 14 million people, which makes it India’s most populous city and the world’s second-most populous city.
After a one-year period starting 3Q 2009, which saw a strong recovery with a record 40%+ increase in prices, the Mumbai residential real estate market has been seeing a slowdown over the last two quarters across various micro markets.
Residential sales in Hyderabad remained modest in 4Q10. Although the city witnessed many launches, sales did not pick up. Market sentiment, especially among investors, stayed low as political uncertainty persisted.
Kolkata is fundamentally a Tier II city, and its real estate market is not as volatile as those of the primary cities. Because of this, Kolkata’s residential property sector was not as seriously impacted by the nationwide slump in the real estate market as cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Pune or Hyderabad.
The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced amendments to the REIT Regulations 2014, which outlines provisions for the formation of Small and Medium Real Estate Investment Trusts (SM REITs). With this the built environment of the Indian real estate has gone euphoric with the underlying promise to witness windfall into fractional ownership. It is perceived to be more lucrative than the existing REITs since the SM REITs encompasses both commercial and residential properties under the guidelines. A Track2Realty report.
When a broker recently suggested Himanshu Kapadia that he should better invest in Ulwe, Dronagiri or Nerul of Navi Mumbai this engineer thought the greedy broker is selling the properties out of which he could make more brokerage. There was nothing common between these three locations and even in terms of price point of the residential properties the three given markets had a different profile.
Track2Realty: During 2013, the investment potential for residential properties in the financial capital of Mumbai remained largely flat and unexciting. Most serious property investors in Mumbai who chose residential property are now content to exit with moderate profits.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Real estate market in India is growing fast because of the increasing demand for planned development, relatively less congestion and pollution, better hygiene and sanitation etc. that is giving way to new opportunities to grow. Investors are not restricted to one category and buyers looking to buy commercial as well as residential properties are angling towards the smaller cities such as Vizag, Pune, Nasik, Ahmadabad etc.
Ever since the National Housing Bank (NHB) started preparing residex – an index for tracking the prices of residential properties in 2007, Chennai has been in the news for steep increase in residential prices.