DLF plans to sell stakes in Pune, Noida IT parks for Rs 1,300 crore
DLF, India’s largest real estate company, will sell its shareholding in two IT SEZs in Pune and Noida, for a combined value of Rs.1,300 crore.
DLF, India’s largest real estate company, will sell its shareholding in two IT SEZs in Pune and Noida, for a combined value of Rs.1,300 crore.
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.
Aanya Real Estate and Luxora Realty jointly are coming up with a green initiative in Nagpur, there are row houses, sky villas, cottages, Olympics sports training center, Schools, Hospitals, Praying Center, thus creating a lifestyle living environment in Nagpur and attracting consumers across India.
DLF, India’s biggest real estate developer, will develop its Rs 1000-crore Infopark project spread over 54 acres in Bhubaneswar in phases.
Even as we continue to discuss the acute shortage of industrial land in Mumbai, the fact remains that there are rather significant land parcels held by the MIDC along Mumbai’s Thane-Belapur Highway.
The budget speech indicated further progress on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) as well as the GST – both critical measures, which is a welcome move. Though, I feel that it would have been better for the industry if GST was also rolled out along with the DTC.
Real Estate developers across the country have termed the Union Budget 2011-12 as a tie cricket match which can’t be termed as won or lost. However, they are all unanimous that it is not a game changer budget for the sector.
The Budget is relying heavily on maintaining the trajectory of growth in the economy to provide solutions for inclusive growth that touch the ‘Aam Aadmi’ and parallelly stressing on governance aspects, which hopefully will be covered separately through concrete action plans to deal with the menace of unaccounted wealth. The trend for consolidation is expected to continue.
It would seem that the Union Budget 2011 pointedly ignored the larger issues affecting the Indian real estate sector at this sensitive stage of revival and growth.
The unfulfilled demand of more than 24 million houses in the country needs large scale impetus to achieve desired results. Allowing deduction for investment into affordable housing is a welcome step and will surely boost morale of housing industry and will accelerate investments in affordable housing.