Demand for commercial office space across the seven major cities in India is estimated at around 160 mn sq ft by 2014, a latest study by real-estate services firm Cushman and Wakefield Research (CWR) said.
Aerens Gold Souk International Ltd (AGIL), a part of diversified business group Gold Souk, has entered into a franchise agreement with the US-based hospitality giant Wyndham Hotel Group to operate four hotels.
As many as seven out of 10 Indians with disposal income, a whopping 72 per cent, go to shopping malls at least twice a month but don’t buy the monthly food & grocery, apparels or consumer durables over there.
Hotel Leelaventure will invest Rs.100 crore to upgrade its property in Goa in 2011 and is looking to expand presence in the country by opening new company-owned properties and taking up management contracts.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has said there is a need to improve the infrastructure and increase in flow of capital in the housing segment, given the increase in the land prices.
Real estate developers have expressed their reservations to the proposed Real Estate Bill 2011, which is likely to see light by this year-end.
Chennai-based real estate developer True Value Homes is planning to invest Rs.800 crore over the next three years to develop around 12 projects, majority of which will be in the residential segment.
Mumbai-based RCSPL, which owns group buying portal for real estate GrOffr.com, has acquired Mobstreet.in, a company which was officially shut down in December 2010 due to lack of funds.
Four years after Singapore-based Ascott Ltd, a serviced residence operator, entered India, it has decided to part ways with its local partner in a bid to speed up expansion plans and have more control over its proposed projects.
Sadiq Batcha, a longtime friend and associate of A Raja and managing director of a real estate company, Green House Promoters, in which Raja’s wife Parameswari was associated as one of the directors and later resigned, has been found dead.