Godrej Properties adds two projects in Bangalore
In a slow moving market where the focus of the developers is to clear the inventory than new launches, Godrej Properties has bucked the trend with two back-to-back launches in Bangalore.
In a slow moving market where the focus of the developers is to clear the inventory than new launches, Godrej Properties has bucked the trend with two back-to-back launches in Bangalore.
This will be Embassy’s first project in the State and it will be known as Embassy Taurus World Technology Centre, Trivandrum. Embassy will have an equity commitment of 49% while Taurus Investment Holdings will hold the remaining 51%.
This project will be developed under a development management agreement. Spread over 14 acres, the project will offer approximately 1,95,000 square metres (2.1 million square feet) of saleable area and will be developed as a residential development comprising of modern residential apartments of various configurations along with a small retail component to support this residential development.
Be it Mumbai or Pune in the Western part of India or Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai in the South, the homebuyers seem to be convinced with the reality of GST and its implications with various stages of construction. It is hence not surprising that most of the homebuyers across the cities today wish to invest in ready to move apartments to save from the hassles of paying the GST.
There are very few case studies where the developers have flocked out to cities on sheer promise without registering their presence in the four metro cities. However, such migration to magnet territory is today quite visible in Gujarat where the developers from other states are increasingly flocking, most notably in the city of Ahmedabad.
The question is in the absence of high paying economic activity like IT/ITeS will the city keep the desired pace to sustain the projected growth and the life style. Critics often point out that in the absence of steadfast pace of economic activity the market may end up being another investors’ haven. However, developers active in this market maintain that more employment opportunities have seen people preferring to stay in Bhiwadi than commute to work. Also, a large number of floating population from nearby cities and across the country is still high, which needs to be catered to in terms of their aspiration and lifestyle choices. The rise of nuclear families have further seen emergence of more demand for dwelling units in the region.
Delhi-NCR based Central Park is venturing into commercial real estate with an investment of about INR 2,000 crore. Central Park will develop a 40 lakh sq ft mixed-use project in Sector 67, Noida which is also its first project in Noida.
Majority of property investors in Dubai real estate market seek the option of villas in the heart of the city with open and green spaces. At Sobha Hartland an investor will have the exclusive opportunity to not only own a luxurious villa in a prime location on the Dubai canal but also one which is surrounded by 2.4 mn sq.ft of real trees/greenery/grass & flowers.
Mostly as of now only the developers of integrated townships have got into the healthcare investment. The dilemma of whether or not to have healthcare facility in the project also comes with whether the developer should himself get into the operational side of running it or it should be outsourced post the investment.
Coimbatore has today all the pre-requisite fundamentals of a lifestyle city that is high on the wish list of the corporate sector and the young professionals. The best part is that this development has happened in the last few years when the market conditions otherwise have been bearish; something that suggests the wave of change is here to stay.