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Fire Capital, the first private equity fund focused on the…
Fire Capital, the first private equity fund focused on the…
Latin America and Asia remain the strongest real estate markets in the world but emerging markets in Europe, particularly Poland, show further improvements, according to the latest Global Commercial Property Survey.
Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd. plans to raise as much as $500 million by hiving off some of its properties into a real-estate investment trust, or REIT, and listing it in Singapore.
If 2008 was the year of shock, 2009 the year of discovery & introspection and 2010 the follow-up experiment; the year 2011 promises to be the year of comfort level for the Indian real estate sector. It seems the turmoil of the last couple of years has made everybody come out intelligent–investors, developers, bankers and end users.
Sahara Group, ICICI Bank, Bhushan Steel, Bharti Realty, Red Fort Capital and Shri Lal Mahal are understood to be in the race among others to acquire Parsvnath Developers’ 1.18 acre of prime commercial land near Connaught Place in the National Capital.
Realty firm Ansal API is looking at a fund infusion of about Rs 500 crore from a host of private equity investors, including IL&FS Investment Managers and Red Fort Capital, for its ongoing construction work in north India.
Track2Realty: Investment-grade office space demand slowed down in the first quarter of 2014, with around 6.3 million sq. ft. of Grade A office space getting absorbed across the leading cities of the country. Transaction activity was dominated by the National Capital Region (NCR), Bangalore and Chennai.
Track2Realty: Transactions in India’s real estate space might have slowed down over the last two quarters, but the sector has not been overwhelmed by the state of the wider economy. Despite the subdued pre-election economic scenario, in fact, the period observed an increase in private equity activity.
Track2Realty: The 3C Company has aligned with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world’s leading luxury hospitality company to present Northern India’s first Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences. The strategic partnership between the two companies was sealed with an exclusive agreement for 25 years, thus ensuring that this would be the only Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences in Delhi NCR for the agreed term.
Over the last year, there has been an unequivocal crystallization of Indian cities that continue to attract serious investment into real estate. This is directly correlated to the economic dynamics now working in the country. If India is to achieve even a conservative GDP growth of 6% per year, it emerges that only three cities – Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore – have the potential to deliver. The reason for this is that close to 2/3rd of the overall development of office space in the country is now taking place in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.