Mahindra group to foray into low-cost housing
Budget housing is fast becoming big business with more and more real estate companies trying to please the masses with pocket-friendly offerings.
Budget housing is fast becoming big business with more and more real estate companies trying to please the masses with pocket-friendly offerings.
Ascendas India Development Trust (AIDT), the India-focused real estate fund floated by Singapore-based office space developer, is looking to raise close to $350 million.
Nearly four years back when the real estate market was at its peak all the developers tried to diversify into other greener pastures.
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.
On 11 March, a major earthquake and tsunami hit Eastern Japan. According to official statistics, the number of deceased had surpassed 13,000 as at 14 April.
Real estate and investment management services provider Jones Lang Lasalle Inc. on Thursday announced its foray into South Africa with the acquisition of corporate property service provider, Bradford McCormack & Associates for an undisclosed amount.
India’s housing shortfall is estimated to be around 27 million and Chennai city alone faces a deficit of 60,000 housing units.