Godrej Properties is aiming to launch 15 new projects, including one in Noida, and sell its completed commercial assets worth Rs 1,500 crore during this fiscal as the realty firm seeks to achieve higher growth. Godrej Properties achieved a record sales bookings of Rs 5,038 crore in 2015-16 fiscal, up 88 per cent from previous year,… Read More »
Having failed once to sell the Kingfisher House for recovering their loans, banks have begun a fresh valuation process for auctioning the headquarters of the Vijay Mallya’s long defunct Kingfisher Airlines. “A revaluation process has begun and will be over by the next week. The property will put on the block again at the earliest,” a… Read More »
Bullish on the rising demand for commercial real estate, Mumbai-based developer K Raheja Corp. is planning to invest around Rs.2,000 crore in acquiring land and building 6 million sq. ft of commercial space in the next two-and-a-half years in Navi Mumbai. The company currently operates three information technology (IT) parks in Navi Mumbai under the brand… Read More »
After bulge bracket mall deals by Blackstone and GIC in Mumbai, global investors Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Macquarie are looking to buy malls in the country, said executives involved in the talks. “CPPIB has started talking to mall owners while Macquarie has shown interest in buying malls. All these investors prefer fixed yields.… Read More »
K Raheja Corp is working on plans to build two infotech parks totalling 6 million sq ft leasable space in Mumbai and Pune over the next two years. This will add to the existing portfolio of the company, which is India’s second largest developer of business parks that span completely leased 20 million sq ft office… Read More »
After investment banks, Maker Maxity, the plush office complex owned by Mukesh Ambani and Maker group in Mumbai’s famed Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) is also becoming home to global sovereign and pension funds. Marquee names such as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Singapore’s GIC and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have taken up spaces in the… Read More »
Equinox Realty , the real estate arm of the diversified Essar Group, plans to repay its entire Rs 1,400 crore debt over the next one year, using proceeds from the sale of two projects, one each in Bengaluru and Mumbai. But the group isn’t exiting real estate business, a top Essar executive told ET, dousing rumours… Read More »
The state cabinet on Monday gave its approval to the City Industrial Development Corporation to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the proposed Navi Mumbai International airport. A RFP is a solicitation, often made through a bidding process by an agency or company seeking to procure a commodity, service, to potential suppliers to submit business… Read More »
Mumbai-based private property developer Lodha Group acquired the Canadian embassy building in London’s Mayfair district for $530 million (Rs 3,300 crore then) in its biggest overseas move in November 2013. Abhishek Lodha, managing director, announced plans to become one of the biggest investors in London’s residential property market by spending as much as $5 billion:… Read More »
More than 750 office space leases in Mumbai are set to expire in 2016. According to PROPSTACK, a commercial real estate information and analytics company, the amount involved in the lease renewal, comprising 36 months average duration, will be around Rs 50 crore a month. Although 77% of 750 office space lease renewal are below… Read More »