Private Equity
The financial year 2014-15 is the year noted for several remarkable private equity exits via IPO routes. With Monte Carlo Fashions, a renowned private equity-backed company received regulatory clearances for IPO, 6 similar moves expected to happen very close this year, to make the current fiscal ranking highest among the past 3 years for the [...] Continue Reading »
In the first six months of 2014 the private equity (PE) investments in the real estate sector jumped over two-fold to Rs 4,100 crore. It is expected that about Rs 7,900 crore will be raised in the second half. So in total it is likely to cross Rs 12,000 crore by the end of the year. The [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity (PE) investor Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd plans to raise a Rs.700 crore fund from the domestic investors this year and invest the proceeds in the real estate sector. The market conditions are conducive and for the last three months they had been speculating to increase the proposed fund size from the Rs.500 crore [...] Continue Reading »
Post a lull of nearly three years, sale of large land parcels is picking up across the country amid a general improvement in sentiment on expectations that the new government will focus on infrastructure development. Not only the developers but also the private equity (PE) players, too, are keen on joining hands with builders to [...] Continue Reading »
Piramal Fund Management Pvt. Ltd is planning to sell investments worth $100 million this year and may start a fund that will invest in residential properties. Piramal Fund Management, a part of the Ajay Piramal Group, is looking at a 100 percent return of capital across two of its early domestic and one offshore fund [...] Continue Reading »
Realty firm Supertech has raised Rs. 400 crore from the private equity firm (PE) Xander to finance its upcoming township and housing projects in Gurgaon.The company will develop plots, villas and independent homes in the 140-acre township at an investment of about Rs 1,100 crore. The company said in a statement that Supertech has received [...] Continue Reading »
Due to the fact that India is gaining a stable government looking to improve market sentiments by introducing reforms such as launching new projects and increasing sales volume, Indian property prices are expected to rise in the latter half of the 2014 quarter, according to the Knight-Frank FICCI Survey. The FICCI index is based on [...] Continue Reading »
Ajay Piramal is all set to make his boldest bet on the country’s battered infrastructure sector under the flagship Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL). His investments in Vodafone India did fairly well and now with the Modinomics wave, he feels that infrastructure investments should be the next big thing. Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL) is tying up [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity (PE) firm Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd is all set to buy apartments in bulk in Assotech Realty Pvt. Ltd’s project in Gurgaon. The funding for this purchase will be done with an element of structured debt. This investment is one of the last couple of deals that remains to be done from Milestone Domestic [...] Continue Reading »
The Fiscal Year of 2015 is to be a promising one, as the hungry real estate market is finally going to be fed with fresh private equity (PE) investments worth Rs 10,000 to 15,000 crore. The interest to invest in real estate has been fluctuating, as in 2011, private equity investment was Rs 20,000 crore [...] Continue Reading »
