Track2Realty: The overall vacancy levels in malls declined by 0.6 percentage to 14.51% on account of consistent leasing activities while supply has been only 0.77 msf gets added in Kolkata and Pune, says a retail report by Cushman & Wakefield. Healthy transaction activity led to reduction in overall mall vacancy of Pune and Kolkata despite the addition of fresh mall space in both the cities.
Track2Realty Exclusive: As the country faces problems over land acquisition, events around the issue have been tarnishing the image of India’s built environment. Across sectors — real estate, infrastructure and construction events have not been conducive enough to create a good environment for investments. In addition, fragmentation and irregularities within the market, instances of fly-by-night-operators duping the consumers, an absence of regulation over transactions and developers have given a bad name to the environment.
Track2Realty: Office markets in India registered a downward trend in overall net absorption for the first three quarters of 2013, as per the latest report released by global real estate consultants, Cushman & Wakefield.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Brand building and maintaining the brand image is a big challenge for any business, and more so for in real estate where one has a direct contact with the end user. Moreover, brand positioning of the business of real estate is dependent on the overall eco system where demand and supply is dependent upon a host of external factors such as the state of the economy, government policies, etc.
Track2Realty: The total new housing demand will be nearly 12 million units in the next five years (2013- 17), according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). This is based on the estimated growth of population across India and in major cities. Of the pan India additional demand, the top 8 cities will constitute approximately 23%.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield have estimated that the share of luxury retail space in India will be a modest 1.44% by 2015 as against the current 1% even as total retail malls stock is set to increase by 27% by 2015.
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: Real estate has expressed disappointment over the decision to hike key policy rate by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The developers and analysts say this would lead to increase in finance cost and also affect housing demand during the festive season.
Track2Realty: Mumbai’s residential segment witnessed mixed sentiments during the first six months of the year. While the city’s leasing market displayed signs of weakness during the review period, the sales market managed to hold its ground with limited capital appreciation in a few locations. These are the findings of CBRE’s latest research report on the residential sector, ‘India Residential Market View H1 2013’.
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.