Private equity firms
Bangalore- Private Equity exits have significantly decreased as compared to last year, as the liquidity in the market is limited and several PE firms have been waiting for better returns. Real estate in India has witnessed around $288 million of PE fund exits in 2012 while it had seen the exits of around $457.32 million [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Shriram Group’s real estate arm, Shriram Properties, is planning to raise fund of Rs 300 crore from private equity firms for specific projects. ASK Property Investment Advisors has recently funded Rs 100 crore to Shriram. But the realtor has said that it is looking to raise more funds. Shriram currently has a huge land [...] Continue Reading »
Indiareit Fund Advisors, the real estate private equity arm of Piramal Enterprises who invested Rs 440 crores has exited from the three realty projects including a residential project in Pune, a premium luxury project in Mumbai and phased stake sale of an SEZ within a township project located at Hinjewadi, Pune, being developed by Paranjape [...] Continue Reading »
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved a real estate deal between global private equity giant Blackstone group and Pune-based realty firm Embassy Group. The proposed deal involves Blackstone and Embassy group having joint control over an entity engaged in the development and management of commercial and office space. It has been dubbed as [...] Continue Reading »
Venture fund Fulcrum Venture India has exited from real estate firm Casa Grande. Fulcrum got back return of over 10 times as they had invested Rs 4.8 crore in FY 2004 and have exited at Rs 50 crore. Chennai-based Casa Grande was launched in 2004 by M Arun Kumar and KR Anerudan. It builds luxury [...] Continue Reading »
The private equity arm of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), HDFC Property Fund, plans to raise a $500-million real estate off shore fund by the end of 2012. The company is planning to raise the capital in a single close deal and is in talks with sovereign funds, including Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) [...] Continue Reading »
Analysts say that interest of overseas funds in the Indian real estate sector is intact but the approach has changed. The investors have turned their focus on specific project. About $2 billion private equity had come into the real estate sector in the past two years and funds were keen to make investments after considering [...] Continue Reading »
The hospitality industry in India is witnessing increasing number of private equity investments in various projects. In 2010, the industry saw only five private equity deals with a cumulative value of $156 million. By 2011, the deal amount grew to $299 million and during the first five months of 2012, hospitality industry has raised $121 [...] Continue Reading »
The real estate sector in India will witness a flow of new or follow-on private equity (PE) funds in the market. Though funds launched last year found it tough to raise money, 2012 has seen more firms jumping on the fundraising program. According to data it is seen that PE deals in realty have come [...] Continue Reading »
Private equity firm IIFL Realty Fund has planned to invest in redevelopment project in Mumbai. The equity firm has made an agreement to invest Rs 80 crore in a housing society-cum-slum-redevelopment project in Sion Koliwada area. Around 1.2 million sq ft of saleable area will be developed in the project. In another PE investment Sun [...] Continue Reading »
