Track2Realty-Agencies: Two men, one of them a history-sheeter on Pune Rural Police records, sustained bullet injuries after four people opened fire at them in at Avdhut arcade office of Rajhans Real Estate, Patilbaugh in Wadgaon Budruk on Pune-Bangalore highway on Saturday, Oct 6.
Track2Realty: Stung by allegations of corruption from social activist Arvind Kejriwal, real estate major DLF on Saturday, Oct 6, vehemently denied it had advanced any unsecured loan to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
Track2Realty: The allegation that businessman Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF have deep illicit links, where Vadra was given an interest-free loan from DLF, which also sold him vast amounts of property at hefty bargains in return for favours from the Congress, could not offer evidence of a quid pro quo.
Track2Realty-Agencies: Two more entities have received market regulator SEBI’s approval to set-up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), a newly created class of pooled-in investment vehicles for real estate, private equity and hedge funds.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Vishakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA) has issued notices to four firms here on Friday, Oct 5, for violating the rules. VUDA issued notices to Bommarillu Farms & Villas India Limited for development and marketing a layout of 15 acres without necessary permission in the name of Kotha Bangaru Lokam in Kumarm village in S Kota mandal of Vizianagaram and imposed a penalty of Rs 6.21 lakh.
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Sahara group today moved the Supreme Court seeking review of the verdict ordering it to refund Rs. 24,000 crore, raised from investors through optionally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs).
Track2Realty-Agencies: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved a real estate deal between global private equity giant Blackstone Group and Pune-based realty firm Embassy Group. The proposed deal involves Blackstone and Embassy Group having joint control over an entity engaged in the business of development and management of commercial and office space and related activities.
Track2Realty: The type of marketing strategies that Indian developers employ to sell their products in a tough market may often seem strange to property marketers in other countries. Nevertheless
Track2Realty: RICS and CREDAI have joined hands to promote professional skills in real estate and construction. At the 12th National Convention of CREDAI at Barcelona, a joint initiative called “RICS-CREDAI Skills Development Initiative” was announced to address the education and training needs of professionals engaged in the real estate and construction sector in the country.
Track2Realty: Cushman & Wakefield estimates commercial office space demand of over 180 million square feet (msf) in the next five years (2012 – 16) in the top 8 cities of the country. This was released in the annual publication entitled “Evolving Paradigm – Future of Indian Real Estate” in association with Global Real Estate Institute (GRI) at their India Summit 2012. The report also estimates the total expected supply for the next five years in these eight cities as 219. 6 million sqft, basis announced projects and current pace of construction; indicating a condition of excess supply in the coming few years.