Several top PE firms and other investors have bought income-producing office assets across the country but the easy pickings seem to have run out. While their appetite remains intact, funds are faced with a shortage of good quality investible office space, and there seems to be a mad rush for what’s left. The biggest deal… Read More »
Ecommerce businesses have emerged as a major demand driver for warehousing in the national capital region, and demand from this segment is likely to rise 60% to 8 million by 2020, says a report by property consultancy Knight Frank India. At the end of April 2016, warehousing space requirement in the NCR was estimated to… Read More »
Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, will witness a sharp drop in economic activity pertaining to the manufacturing and construction sector over the next two decades. In the city’s revised development plan, planners have projected that the stake of these two sectors in Mumbai’s overall economic chart will go down by 11 percentage points — from 31… Read More »
In 2014, Ceejay House, located in Mumbai’s Worli area and having a gorgeous view of the Arabian Sea, had virtually no space to lease out. But in the past one year, a fourth of the building is understood to be vacant, with several tenants having moved out. At the peak of the real estate boom in… Read More »
Bengaluru, which has a total stock of 96 million sq ft of grade-A (non-captive) office space, is currently staring at a shortfall in the supply of office space. Barely 4-5 per cent of the total space is vacant for leasing as the tech city has witnessed strong leasing activity in the last few years. Even… Read More »
Homegrown private equity fund Everstone Capital is planning to list its warehousing and logistics assets valued at $2-2.5 billion as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), said four people involved in the process. Everstone is looking to raise more than $3 billion over the next four years through its arm IndoSpace. Read more: Economic Times
The absorption of commercial real estate including outright purchases and leasing of office space in India’s top seven markets increased to 5.8 million square feet during the first quarter of 2016, up 8% from that a year ago, according to commercial data information and analytics firm Propstack. This signals continuation of the strong revival seen… Read More »
Realty firm Logix has developed a mixed-use project comprising a 6 lakh sq ft shopping mall in Noida at an investment of Rs 600 crore and expects to earn an annual rental income of about Rs 80 crore. Noida-based Logix group is also in the process of giving final exit to Bahrain-based TAIB Bank from its… Read More »
Piramal Fund Management Pvt. Ltd, the investment arm of Piramal Group, will start funding commercial office projects. It is one of the largest lenders and investors in residential real estate and already has a loan book and equity investments worth Rs.22,000 crore in the residential space alone, plans to deploy another Rs.5,000 crore in commercial office… Read More »
While vacancy levels in commercial establishments are set to grow from current 8%, that for malls is at 30% despite an uptake in leasing activity led by IT, BFSI and consulting sector in Ahmedabad real estate market, a report by CIRIL Network says. The office space market in Ahmedabad had total absorption of around 0.75 million sq… Read More »