Chennai
Unfinished JW Marriott Hotel in the city are being pulled down by the City builder Ceebros which have been bought for 480 crore last year from Hyderabad-based Viceroy Hotels. The hospitality sector in Chennai is going through a serious disaster with low occupancy in most five-star hotels, due to this reason Viceroy Group sold the [...] Continue Reading »
Recently, Tata Housing declared it is planning to invest Rs.1, 200 crore for developing 13 housing projects for senior citizens in the next five years. In Bangalore by the name of Riva Residences, the company had already launched its first project and work for similar projects would soon commence in more cities, including Chennai, Ahmedabad, [...] Continue Reading »
Tata Value Homes Limited (TVHL) is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Tata Housing Development Company. The company’s National Home Buying Day was oversubscribed 4 times with over 800 applications for the allocated 200 units across 5 projects. The website has seen 3,00,000 hits during the four days. Buyers from across the country and NRIs [...] Continue Reading »
Realtors in the city are a happy lot, due to political ambiguity in the state ending with the Centre’s move to bifurcate the state. Hyderabad will once again emerge as an investment destination which will lead to an uptick in real estate prices, according to realtors believes. At the ongoing Property Show-2014 organised by the [...] Continue Reading »
Retirement homes, or senior citizen living spaces, are becoming big business in the country. Senior housing is a $25-billion industry worldwide, according to Jones Lang LaSalle India. India has an approximate demand for 3 lakh such homes prized at over $1 billion. The massive demand for flats or townships for senior citizen with or without [...] Continue Reading »
According to a senior official of CMRL, Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) has zeroed in on three corridors for the Phase-II development which is estimated to cost around Rs 36,000 crore. R Ramanathan, director – projects, CMR informed about the estimates above and the three corridors of the project which will run across 60 kms. [...] Continue Reading »
Through a newly formed category named as alternative investment funds (AIF), HDFC Mutual Fund plans to raise up to Rs1,500 crore for real estate. The asset management company will raise the money through a new division that is expected to be called HDFC AIF, according to two persons who are familiar with the matter. An [...] Continue Reading »
Niranjan Hiranandani, the real estate tycoon who created the eponymous enclave in Mumbai’s Powai area is fighting with his daughter Priya Vandrevala, a self-confessed rebel, for a property worth at least Rs. 3,000 crore. Hiranandani and his son Darshan last month fired latest round, when they moved to the Bombay High Court to restrain Priya’s company, Hiranandani Living, [...] Continue Reading »
As per the real estate industry body CREDAI, at the recently concluded seventh edition of property exhibition Fairpro 2014, held at Chennai during February 21-23, majority of home buyers opted for mid-range apartments priced between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 60 lakh. Besides, a record sale of over 300 units and revenue of Rs 200 [...] Continue Reading »
Hayat Invest, the Kuwait-based investment company has announced its plans to foray into the domestic real estate business with its first residential project to come up near Chennai, under its joint venture Indian partner XS Real Group. S G Prabhakaran, Chairman of the XS Real Group said to the reporters, “Hayat Investment company would invest [...] Continue Reading »
