The real estate sector in Bangalore has grown to a large extent in the past one year. In the year ahead, the city’s realty is expected to grow by 25 per cent, estimates the Karnataka Chapter of the Consortium of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI).
Mantri Developers has collaborated with Cisco to develop new ICT-enabled real estate models ‘Mantri Connected Communities and Smart Homes.’ This collaboration combines Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities vision with Mantri’s experience as a pioneering smart urban developer to provide connected and sustainable communities and an enriched living experience to its residents.
Pranay Vakil: Kruti can you give some examples of innovative funding for the benefit of the panel? It is just to prove a point about how innovative that funding has been.
Lavasa Corporation has announced the launch of Mugaon – the 2nd town to be built at Lavasa. Situated on the banks of the lake, Mugaon will be developed on approximately 2400 acre area and is much larger than Dasve, the first town of Lavasa.
Amidst cut-throat the hospitality vertical of Indian real estate has done well with hotels across the budget segment witnessing upward movement. Track2Realty exp0lores the emerging trends and also addresses the game changers that has influenced in the past and promises to do so in the year ahead.
DLF Brands, a subsidiary of DLF Ltd, has aggressive plans to expand its retail business by introducing more international brands into India, besides opening at least 50 new outlets every year in the country.
Call it the fallout of Competition Commission of India (CCI) penalty on the biggest real estate company DLF in a Gurgaon case last August, there has been a rush of complaints at the CCI against several property majors since then. According to CCI officials at least 200 complaint letters came to them against real estate players, of them around 15 were official cases.
It has been strangely characteristic for the real estate and construction industry in India to remain unregulated and unrecognized, even though it is one of the largest employers and contributors to national growth.
Identifying a good and reliable broker is the first step in your entry into the property market. However, there are no defined policy guidelines in this highly disorganized business and Track2Realty suggests that one has to be careful judging the intent and credentials of the broker with certain tangible and intangible parameters.
Kruti Jain: I believe any funding available in real estate is gap funding. It is not about only the gap which is there in funding for real estate because what happens for other industries is that they have this reserve capital which is not their land or raw material, but is the actual capital they put in to manufacture xyz product and then they replenish the funds with whatever returns are accrued.