Bengaluru is staring at a shortfall in office space this year, with demand pegged at 10 million sq ft while supply is expected to be 8-8.5 million sq ft. Barely 4-5% of Bangalore’s total stock of 96 million sq ft of grade-A non-captive office space is available on lease, according to a real estate services firm. In… Read More »
A parliamentary committee has found that out of 47 vacant land sites selected by Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), not a single site has been commercially developed as yet. Railway Convention Committee in its latest report observed that so far 60 sites measuring about 590 hectares of land have been identified and entrusted to RLDA for… Read More »
A new survey on the average age of the most expensive office space in 10 Asia Pacific cities ranks Mumbai at number four, with most buildings in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). Beijing and Shanghai have the newest office stock followed by Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Delhi-NCR, Seoul, Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. The survey, which compares 30… Read More »
Investment in office space this year could surpass Rs 17,000 cr in 2015 in India. Delhi-NCR and Mumbai had attracted the major chunk of this investment. The study further said India’s relatively new and inexpensive office space should be attractive to corporate occupiers. Moreover, investors should also look at India if they are looking to buy… Read More »
Prestige Estates Projects Ltd, India’s third largest real estate developer by market capitalisation after DLF Ltd and Oberoi Realty, is in the process of consolidating its office business as a precursor to fundraising by bringing in an investor or going the real estate investment trust or REIT route. “We are in the process of doing segment… Read More »
The auction of the Dunlop-owned Mumbai property may not be a cakewalk following a number of litigations and the West Bengal government’s takeover of Dunlop India in February. Though ICICI Bank, which is auctioning the property, has got a clearance from the Supreme Court, litigations and takeover may play a spoilsport, feel property consultants. The bank… Read More »
Starting next month, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will begin enforcing the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) to ensure efficient use of power. The implementation of the code will begin with the granting of permissions to 25 new buildings – both government and private commercial complexes. The move comes at a time when the GHMC… Read More »
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 »
Distressed office assets are emerging across cities, throwing up opportunities for large developers backed by private equity (PE) funds to buy into incomplete or stalled office projects, special development enclaves or undeveloped land, a trend that has played out in the residential sector in recent years. Bengaluru-based Embassy Group is buying out a 60% stake in… Read More »
Microsoft is scouting for 1.1 million sq ft office space in Bengaluru to consolidate and expand its business in India as part of chief executive Satya Nadella’s plans to tap into the local market and engineering talent. The American technology company has already looked at properties in Embassy GolfLinks and North Bengaluru but is yet to… Read More »