Akshaya launches iHomes – an interactive home booking platform
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Vatika Group and PVR tie up to open 26 screens across three townships in Gurgaon, Jaipur and Ambala
Track2Realty: Vatika Group has tied-up with PVR to open and operate 26 multiplex screens in three of Vatika Group’s townships – Vatika India Next (250 hectares), Vatika Infotech City and Vatika City Central in Gurgaon, Jaipur and Ambala respectively.
SPR & RG Constructions launch Osian Chlorophyll in Chennai
Track2Realty: SPR & RG Constructions have launched their flagship green-community project at Porur, adjacent to Sri Ramachandra Medical College. The project is conceptualised as a platform for all green lovers to congregate and live together as a community, in harmony with nature. Osian Chlorophyll claims to be a landmark residential project for Chennai, even as it raises the bar on green-consciousness and becomes a torchbearer for other builders to engage in a richer dialogue with our environment.
Real estate investments flowing into West Pune
Track2Realty: With a consistent track record for delivering the highest value to home buyers and investors alike, Pune’s real estate market has remained one of the most vibrant and exciting in India. By attracting more and more international and IT/ITeS companies to establish their operations, the city has been generating jobs at a scale which is unmatched by any of the other Indian metros.
What the budget should do for home buyers
Track2Realty: Real estate stakeholders in every Indian city are looking forward to the upcoming financial budget 2015 to see whether it will provide any relief to the sector. Developers have their own expectations, because positive announcements for real estate buyers made during the budget will help increase the market sentiment, and therefore sales. The general hope is that the budget will provide cheer to intending home buyers who have been deterred for various reasons.
Mumbai real estate: The redevelopment maze
Track2Realty: Redevelopment is not a new phenomenon in Mumbai. Various parts of the city have being seeing redevelopment in pockets for many years as the city planning authorities strive to accelerate urban renewal and improve the quality of real estate and infrastructure, and developers strive to make a profit. The redevelopment process happens against a backdrop of the city’s fast-growing population and the rising demand for space amid limited availability of developable land.
Leveraging land holdings to improve cash flows
Track2Realty: Even in these times of gradual revival, many developers continue to battle the problems of curtailed liquidity. Many developers with large land holdings are not able to launch projects on these land parcels solely with their own capital, and therefore look to either partner with better-capitalized developers or those looking for development opportunities in an asset-light model by giving them development rights in such projects.
Brick Eagle co-founder forays into realty; launches Olympeo Riverside
Track2Realty: Prabhat Ranjan, co-founder of Brick Eagle, a financial services platform for the affordable housing industry, has forayed into real estate development, incorporating a new venture Olympeo Infrastructure. The company has launched its first project Olympeo Riverside, an integrated township spread across 25 acres on the banks of Ulhas River, in the Neral-Karjat belt, an extended Mumbai suburb.
The business of affordable housing: A comeback story
Track2Realty: The definition of affordable means different for different people depending on the socio-economic class, income levels etc. In India, the term applies most pertinently to housing created for the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) of society so that they, like the middle class, can also benefit from the financial and emotional security of home ownership.
Real estate development: How FAR can you go?
Track2Realty: Among the various regulations adopted in real estate development, Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is one of the most critical ones because it decides the intensity of development which is permitted in a certain area. Recently, the fact that the urban development ministry raised the FAR for residential areas in Delhi to 200% made headlines news because this will lead to a significant increase in built-up areas in many parts of the city, thereby infusing critically needed residential supply.