Track2Realty: India’s top 25 real estate companies have reported 4% year-on-year decline in cumulative revenues of Rs 67.44 billion in the second quarter ended September 30, another quarter highlighting the slump in the sector, a Knight Frank India report said.
Track2Realty: After 17 long year with Knight Frank, Pranay Vakil has decided to retire. The Indian business has gone from strength to strength under his leadership, increasing employee numbers from an initial 10 to over 800 and opening 7 offices across the Country and with more planned.
The impact of slowdown is already being felt on the real estate market with residential segment witnessing sluggish demand across all the major cities.
A study by international property consultants Knight Frank finds real estate prices in India have risen by 21.3 per cent over the past one year, making it the country with the second highest rise in real estate prices globally.
Indian real estate is expected to face “large-scale distress” amid rising borrowing costs and shrinking access to credit that may force developers into fire sales for assets, according to Knight Frank.
Faced with the non-compliance by the real estate companies, Brand Capital, earlier known as Times Private Treaties, the ad-for-equity business of publishing group Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), has hired real estate consultant Knight Frank India Pvt. Ltd to manage its real estate portfolio.