Global hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has opened its fourth India property in Chennai. According to the company release, the five-star 204-room Hilton Chennai, positioned as a business hotel, is owned by Empee Group, which has diversified interests from alcoholic beverages to property development.
Reforms in the real estate sector is the need of the hour for tackling issues like high stamp duty which often results in otherwise honest people having to deal in black money, according to the Economic Survey 2010-11 tabled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
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.
Italian fashion brand Alcott that had inked a franchise agreement with DLF Brands to enter India in 2008, is mulling to convert their partnership into a joint venture.
DLF Brands, part of real estate company DLF, is venturing into the home furnishing segment. It aims to launch 30 home solution stores under the brand name ‘Pure Home+Living’ in the next three years at an investment of Rs 200 crore.
Within a week of launching the super-luxury Nitesh Logos, Bangalore-based premium property developer Nitesh Estates Ltd., now announces the launch of Nitesh Mall, in the up-market Indiranagar. This mall built with world-class amenities is going to offer great shopping and entertainment experience, making it the most sought after mall in the Central Business District of Bangalore.
KORUM, Mumbai’s largest Shopping Mall by Kalpataru Retail Ventures Pvt Ltd, a Kalpataru Group company, has won the ‘Emerging Retailer of the Year Award’ (Real Estate) at the 7th Asia Retail Congress, held in Mumbai recently.
For the third consecutive year, Jones Lang LaSalle was awarded the ‘International Property Consultant Of The Year’ Award at the Asia Retail Congress for Excellence in Retail, held on 8–9 February 2011 at Hotel Taj Land’s End in Mumbai. Jones Lang LaSalle India won the award by a landslide, beating all other competing international property consultants.
Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) India has announced the launch of ‘Millionaire Homes 2011’, after the successful series of Millionaire Homes 2009 and 2010 held in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. The event is designed as a platform for connoisseurs of lifestyle and fine living, to experience some of the finest concepts in luxury homes in India.
India is today facing a unique challenge of dealing with high inflation, while continuing on its high growth trajectory. Boosting of supply in all industries, including through incentivizing of infrastructure development, streamlining of regulatory process to reduce time and costs for business and tax incentives for low cost housing are all important areas which will help reduce inflation and also enable growth rates to be maintained.