Private equity firms
Equity firms and International Property dealers from Singapore, Malaysia and West Asia and Asia are planning to invest in the Indian real estate market. This interest of foreign players started being eminently visible when the Government became lenient on the foreign investment norms of the Indian real estate market. Certain Indian developers have started to [...] Continue Reading »
In New Delhi the Narendra Modi government, chief ministers, top realty honchos, urban planners, private equity firms, bureaucrats and bankers are meeting for a 2 day conclave. They want to come up with a solution to the most annoying of all problems- finding a decent home for all the Indian citizens. This has been a part [...] Continue Reading »
The data published by property consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield brought some cheer to the real estate market in Bangalore. The real estate market in Bangalore attracted the maximum private equity (PE) investment in the country in the first half of 2014. The IT Capital Bangalore outperformed the national capital Delhi as well as the [...] Continue Reading »
A funding amount of Rs 700 crore will apparently be raised by Private equity (PE) investor Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd this year. The planned funding will be raised from domestic investors and will be invested in the realty sector. The proposed fund size has been increased by Milestone from Rs 500 crore – an amount [...] Continue Reading »
The market sentiments have changed post the Modinomics wave and the Private equity (PE) firms are using this buoyant market sentiment to exit their old investments via public market sales route. Over nine-fold returns were made by Carlyle Group when it made a full exit from Repco Home Finance, a housing finance company based in Chennai. [...] Continue Reading »
The improvement in the business sentiment private equity (PE) funds are hopefully going to get more investments from the domestic ultra high net worth individuals (UHNIs) who have increasingly been shifting their allocation to the riskier asset classes. Most of all these investments will be in the PEs that has been focusing on sectors like [...] Continue Reading »
The cash less real estate sector which has been facing problem to raise funds for the past couple of years have started to remove the fresh investor interest. The Private equity (PE) investment in the sector is being expected to be the Rs 10,000-15,000 crore in FY15. Interest in the realty sector had dropped significantly [...] Continue Reading »
Modi’s housing for all agenda had a positive impact on the residential realty segment and everyone is bee lining towards that sector. Blackstone the US private equity (PE) firm, one of the largest investors in commercial properties, is set to step up presence in the residential segment. The PE giant has resolved to invest about Rs 1,000 [...] Continue Reading »
Actis which is a PE (Private Equity) firm invests aggressively in emerging markets. It is one of the few funds which has invested a lot in India. However they have made a number of attractive exits in the last 10 years when the profit margins went low. Actis South Asia head JM Trivedi believes that India [...] Continue Reading »
The private equity (PE) firms are looking at exiting out of the real estate companies due to the slowdown in the economy and the slump in the Indian property market. When they exited their investments, many made a handsome profit too. According to a recent report by Brookfield Financial, until March 2014, nearly a fifth, [...] Continue Reading »
