Track2Realty Exclusive: “Revival is too strong a statement in today’s market,” says Anshuman Magazine, CMD of CBRE South Asia, adding that any upward movement is a healthy sign when it was expected to be stagnant not very long ago. The assessment of Magazine may be a generic overview of the realty market across the country, but when it comes to the Delhi-NCR real estate, it sounds like at prophetic statement.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of West Zone (Mumbai)
The retail landscape across the western zone of the country has remained active through 2012. The sector performance was characterized by buoyant leasing activity from both Indian and international brands. As a result, in addition to expansion of Indian brands, many international retailers also set up their new outlets in the city. Moreover, the recent policy reforms, allowing FDI in multi-brand retail has improved overall sentiments in the sector.
Track2Realty Exclusive: In the current scenario, investment in Real estate sector has been a challenging task due to complexity of the real estate markets in various cities. The complexity has evolved as a result of local planning regulations, social and demographic features, economic profile and legacy issues.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Knight Frank report says with demand likely to remain subdued as the market continues to bottom out in the backdrop of a sluggish economy, a more pronounced rationalisation of prices is warranted in 2013.
Track2Realty Roundtable Panelists—Dr Anil Sharma, CMD, Amrapali Group
Sunil Dahiya—Sr Vice President, NAREDCO & MD Vigneshwara Developers
Harmit Chawla—MD, HCorp Realty
PK Tripathi—President, Unitech
Moderator—Ravi Sinha, CEO & Managing Editor, Track2Realty
Ravi Sinha: Would any of you agree that the pipeline visibility and land bank suddenly has turned out to be a land liability?
Track2Realty-Agencies: Vibgyor Real Estate, a part of the Rs. 800 crore Vibgyor Group, has signed in leading Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta as its brand ambassador, a company official said.
Track2Realty Exclusive: Analysis of North zone (Delhi NCR)
Owing to sluggish global and domestic economic growth, high inflation and steep depreciation in rupee value, market sentiment remained subdued during the first three quarters of 2012. International brands are still positive about the Indian growth story.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Ansal Properties & Infrastructure (Ansal API) has achieved a sales bookings of Rs 2,361 crorein the first 11 months of this fiscal, slightly down from the year-ago period.
Track2Realty Exclusive: The costliest property market of the country, Mumbai has for long defied all the conventional wisdom of economics of demand and supply. It has been a market where a substantial dip in demand had no co-relation with the skyrocketing of prices.
Track2Realty Roundtable
Panelists—Dr Anil Sharma, CMD, Amrapali Group
Sunil Dahiya—Sr Vice President, NAREDCO & MD Vigneshwara Developers
Harmit Chawla—MD, HCorp Realty
PK Tripathi—President, Unitech
Moderator—Ravi Sinha, CEO & Managing Editor, Track2Realty
Ravi Sinha: Many of the developers have realised that focus on execution and not the land bank is the key. Companies which overleveraged their balance sheets or branched out into non-core areas have failed. Developers have also learnt it the hard way that real estate is a micro market business and fancy expectations of going pan-India can boomerang. Are not these tough lessons?