With startups looking at affordable work spaces and central government creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship, demand for co-working spaces has gone up. For a tech startup, cost of setting up an office in Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru range from $25,359 to $30,081 per annum, while operating out of co-working space would help these startups save… Read More »
Shortage of quality office space in big Indian cities has pushed up pre-commitments or reservations of property even before it is ready, among retail and technology giants, by as much as 50% in the past six months, according to real estate consultants. IT companies like Apple, GEP Solutions, GCI and Here Solutions have made pre-commitments for… Read More »
The recovery in demand for commercial real estate being witnessed across the country since 2015 more sustainable and long-term in comparison with the one witnessed in 2011 as the office space absorption has now been growing on the back of combination of lower rents and a positive economic outlook, said a report. This is unlike the… Read More »
Office rentals have been on an upswing with the average rents going up by 8 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in first half of 2016. NCR, Pune and Bengaluru are cities that led the rally with rents moving up in the range of 10-14 per cent year-on-year during the same period, according to a property consultancy.… Read More »
While commercial real estate continues to record healthy pick-up, investors are still approaching the segment with caution. Private equity players and other investors believe that the euphoria around current growth may also lead to certain investment mistakes as was the case in the previous cycle between 2005 and 2008. In the past three years, about $1.6… Read More »
Mumbai office property market witnessed a 21% on-quarter rise in leasing activity at 1.4 million sq ft in the quarter ended June, said a property consultancy in a report. Demand for office space was largely concentrated across peripheral micro-markets. Majority of office space demand in the city was led by corporate occupiers from the BFSI… Read More »
Startup firms are giving a boost to the commercial real estate business, which is saddled with huge inventories in major cities. India is the third largest startup destination in the world. Though their demand for space is much less than that of large companies and their ability to pay much less, “these emerging startup business enterprises… Read More »
Taking away a major complaint of the Kejriwal government on non-availability of land for hospitals, night shelters or government offices, the Centre on Monday announced that DDA will provide plots for such facilities at Re 1 per annum. Announcing the lease rates for land for institutional purposes on Monday, urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu said… Read More »
Gujarat is not only ranked fourth in the country in number of vacant residential premises but is also ranked fifth in number of vacant non-residential units. The union territory of Delhi tops the list of cities with the maximum number of unoccupied commercial units. In Delhi, 16.2% of commercial premises are vacant. The union territory… Read More »
Chennai’s four-lakh employee-strong IT and ITeS ecosystem is losing the race – albeit momentarily – to manufacturing and consulting firms that are briskly occupying office spaces during the first half of the current calendar year. Companies such as Renault Nissan, Ford, and other auto-component and ancillary firms and consulting firms like EY took lakhs of sq… Read More »