IL&FS direct beneficiary in DB Realty
The IL&FS has LIC of India, State Bank of India, Central Bank of India, HDFC Bank as prominent shareholders. As per the reports IL&FS owned 4.05 per cent stake in Shahid Balwa’s DB Realty.
The IL&FS has LIC of India, State Bank of India, Central Bank of India, HDFC Bank as prominent shareholders. As per the reports IL&FS owned 4.05 per cent stake in Shahid Balwa’s DB Realty.
India’s real estate stocks have attractive valuations after plunging 83% from their peak and are likely to rebound within two years, according to Macquarie Group.
After recording significant leasing in 4Q10, Mumbai city witnessed moderate transaction activity in 1Q11 as the major office occupiers of India Inc awaited the impact of budget on their corporate real estate strategy for the next fiscal year.
The period ending 1Q11 witnessed moderate activity in the office market in the city. With CBD vacancy rates continuing to hover at around 1%, office transactions were limited to either small office queries or larger office spaces that were inevitably a churn in the existing stock.
Fraudsters will soon find it difficult to dupe banks by mortgaging the same property with two lenders or selling mortgaged property.
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.
The Income-Tax department is planning to look into all suspected real estate deals to check involvement of black money component and tax evasion.
The Sensex has always been a barometer of the country’s general economic ‘mood’. The real estate index, on the other hand, is an indicator of the sentiments towards real estate developers.
As part of its social obligations, CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India) is planning to train unskilled labourers from 10 select cities in the country, with the assistance of National Skilled Development Corporation (NSDC).