IndiaReit
As compared to real estate investments in the Asia Pacific Region, Indian realty remained dull in 2012-13. REITs worth $10 billion may be listed in case of tax relief provided by the Government of India. CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle for Asia Pacific, Alastair Hughes revealed his opinions on matters related to real estate market [...] Continue Reading »
In what can be termed as good news for the Indian real estate sector, Milestone Capital advisors, a well known private equity fund that invests in realty projects has managed to raise nearly Rs. 170 crore for its structured debt fund. Milestone Capital advisors plan to raise a total of Rs. 500 crore in the [...] Continue Reading »
REITs might have to face some turbulent times before being fruitfully launched in India, due to the current tax rules, which make it an unattractive and stringent affair. The rules announced by the Indian Government for setting up Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), which may spur $20 billion of property development, will not see the [...] Continue Reading »
Commercial office space landlord RMZ offices aims high as it sets its sight on obtaining Rs 9,000 crore ($1.5 billion) through a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) either in Mumbai or Singapore. RMZ corporate vice chairman Manoj Menda has made it clear that this Bangalore-based developer is soon to be made public within 15 months, [...] Continue Reading »
Originally announced in the Fiscal Year of 2014, REITs (Real Estate Investment Trust) did not offer any tax sops to attract potential investors in the cash-strapped realty market. The BSE has now launched a 11-member advisory group on REITs, to engage long term funds from national and international investors. In order to popularise REITs, various [...] Continue Reading »
The Real Estate Investment Trusts are hoping to get a positive signal soon in matters of the Budget which is coming up soon. They could soon come up with a fresh way of funding for all those developers who are struggling with increasing cost of funds as well as the sales which are rapidly declining. [...] Continue Reading »
ASK Property Investment Advisors, the property fund arm of ASK Group, plans to launch a $200 million (Rs 1,100 crore) international realty fund next month. When it launches the fund, ASK will join the league of HDFC, IDFC, IL&FS, Indiareit, Kotak and Tata Realty & Infrastucture, which are planning to launch foreign realty funds. ASK [...] Continue Reading »
Foreign investors are funding Indian real estate market after the release of Press note 2 in 2005 which opened up construction and development for Foreign direct investment (FDI). Many investors who had invested at that time, largely in residential sector, are now heading towards maturity and are withdrawing their prime investments. According to a report [...] Continue Reading »
Samira Habitats, a real estate developer based in Alibaug have to let go of an equity fund called IndiaReit owned by Ajay Piramal. The main reason for this exit is that the investment tenure of IndiaReit is over and has to be renewed again. The equity fund based company can only make an exit if [...] Continue Reading »
