After MADC issued show cause notices for termination to 23 investors in Mihan-SEZ, nine companies have expressed inability to go ahead with their plans and have demanded their money paid for buying land back. All except L&T Infocity which has 50 acres of land have small-size projects having taken up 1 to 3 acres of… Read More »
Embassy Group has partially acquired a stalled SEZ project in Chennai from SNP Infrastructure for an undisclosed amount, two people aware of the development said. The 26-acre property on Thoraipakkam-Pallavaram road is close to the airport. Land on Pallavaram road costs about Rs 20 crore per acre. “The special economic zone project was shelved in 2008… 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 »
Maruti Suzuki is exploring the possibilities to set up an assembly facility in Africa and investing in real estate in India to develop sales and marketing infrastructure. “We have a team in place now for land acquisition. We have allocated Rs 800 crore for building sales and marketing infrastructure. If required, we can step this up… Read More »
Private equity firm Milestone Capital Advisors plans to raise around Rs 1,000 crore under a commercial fund which would invest in pre-leased commercial assets in metros, a top company official said. Under the fund, titled Milestone Commercial Advantage Fund, the company plans to invest in assets like commercial offices, IT/ITES, industrial or warehousing and retail space.… 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 »
Blackstone, with over $330 billion assets under management (AUM), has of late started lapping up retail assets in India. In December, it acquired two retail assets of Alpha One Malls in Ahmedabad and Amritsar. With this, it has invested about Rs 800 crore in about 1.2 million square feet. Now, Blackstone is close to announcing… Read More »
Google has taken 1 lakh square feet office space on lease in Bengaluru’s Bagmane World Technology Centre to expand its business in India as part of chief executive Sundar Pichai’s plans to tap into the local market and engineering talent. The American search engine company struck the deal for the office space recently, three people aware… Read More »
Non-banking financial company (NBFC) Altico Capital is looking to deploy $150 million (Rs 990 crore) over 12-18 months in commercial office properties and the infrastructure sector. This is besides the $400 million it is looking to deploy in mid-income and affordable housing segments, said Sanjay Grewal, chief executive officer at Altico Capital. The NBFC is promoted… Read More »
The Trump Organization has signed its first commercial office deal in India with private equity fund and developer IREO in Gurgaon. The American real estate firm founded by Donald Trump, the front runner for the Republican nomination for the President of the United States, will lend its name to a new high-end 600,000-700,000 sq ft… Read More »