The e-commerce sector's usage of commercial spaces was about 4.2 million square feet of the total of 17.5 million sq ft consumed in the first half of 2015.
'Consider your household's financial health and all your other goals.' 'Buying a house might seem like an urgent goal, but it is rarely the only one.'
'The Indian retail landscape is poised for a significant shift with the anticipated arrival of several prominent international luxury fashion brands in 2024.'
Let's see some of the hottest property prices around the world.
Prices in Bengaluru, the National Capital Region, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, however, witnessed an uptick during the period.
The government's move to tweak the long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax regime proposed in the Finance Bill 2024 and re-introduce the indexation benefit is likely to boost the investments and spur housing sales in the country, industry executives believe. "By enabling taxpayers to choose the lower tax burden between the new and old schemes, the amendment is poised to drive investment and enhance sales across housing segments," said Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman of the Hiranandani Group. In Budget 2024, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed an overhaul in the capital gains tax regime, including lowering the LTCG tax to 12.5 per cent from 20 per cent.
Sharma was the president of the conference, the first since the Paris Agreement of COP21 that expected parties to make enhanced commitments towards mitigating climate change.
Residential house prices have only risen since the pandemic.
Surpassing China, India will become the world's largest economy by 2050, says a report.
Housing sales fell 37 per cent year-on-year during the 2020 calendar year while gross office space leasing declined 35 per cent on low demand because of the coronavirus pandemic, but demand improved significantly in the last quarter to cross pre-COVID level, property consultant Knight Frank India said on Wednesday. In its 'India Real Estate - Residential and Office Update H2 2020' report released on Wednesday, the consultant reported that sales of residential properties fell 37 per cent to 154,534 units in 2020 across eight cities as compared with 245,861 units in the previous year.
The Indian office real estate market, which had recovered significantly in early 2022, began to slow down in the latter half due to macroeconomic problems in the developed world. Rental yields are likely to be stable at best in FY24.
A recent survey discovered that Bengaluru has some of the classiest high streets in our country.
Monetising real estate assets is part of the overall relief package that would be used to retire debts, upgrade networks, and offer VRS aimed at reducing the telcos' employee strength by half.
For those looking for more affordable options, purchasing an under-construction property could be a smart move, as these generally cost less than ready-to-move-in properties.
Improved sentiment because of a stable government to push demand, says Knight Frank.
Knight Frank LLP, an international property consultancy, recently conducted a study on how many years worth of earning would it take for an average citizen to buy a 100-square-metre luxury or a high-end apartment in the world's most important cities. These numbers are according to an analysis of real estate and wages.
Sets up new financial services arm, Amit Goenka joins as CEO.
Prospective buyers must make a well-considered decision regarding whether this is the right time to buy a house, particularly with home loan rates at near-peak levels, and the risk of job losses looming in many sectors.
India is projected to be home to the fourth highest number of billionaires in the world by 2023.
Mumbai witnessed the sharpest decrease in new launches, at 43 per cent during 2014, followed by Hyderabad, with a 30 per cent drop.
Experts say you should be certain of living in a city and locality for a long time before purchasing a home.
The event was held in Mumbai on Friday.
These cities are considered the most important to the world's High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs), according to The Wealth Report 2012 by Wealth Report 2012 by Knight Frank & Citi Private Bank.
As global and domestic economies continue to flounder, vacancies at many existing and new commercial properties across India's commercial capital have risen to 30-50 per cent levels from 14-15 per cent in 2009.
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The London School of Economics professor Danny Quah forecasts that by 2050 the world's economic centre of gravity, a theoretical measure of the focal point of global economic activity based on GDP, will have shifted eastwards, as quoted in the Wealth Report 2012 by Knight Frank & Citi Private Bank.
Out of 97 global cities, Mumbai and Delhi are currently ranked at 21 and 33, respectively.
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Indians are the fourth-largest property buyers in Singapore.
Asia-Pacific economies continue to outpace other regions of the world, whose growth prospects have weakened over the first half of 2013.
A recent study titled - The Wealth Report 2012 - suggests that even though the focus is now on emerging economies; established top cities in the world will continue to draw wealth for sometime.
The stakeholders' sentiments for a shorter period fell from 63 in Q3 2014 to 48 in Q3 2015.
According to CNBC's report based on a research by global real estate consultancy Knight Frank, which ranks countries according to highest average growth in housing prices from the fourth quarter of 2006 to the same period in 2011, here are the world's hottest real estate markets.
Identified as states with "great potential", Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu are projected to increase their industrial production by more than two-and-half times to Rs 50 lakh crore in the next five years.
General Motors vice-president P Balendran is less diplomatic and talks about a 'severe blow'.
It is expected that the global real estate market will see some major improvements in the latter half of the year.
Goldman-HDFC JV and OYO Hotels & Homes are betting big on student housing, says Raghavendra Kamath.
Overseas investors questioned the difference between the net asset value of Unitech's Alternative Investment Market-listed Unitech Corporate Parks Plc fund and what the traded price of the units reflected. Company sources, however, maintained that investors were merely seeking information to understand the variance between the NAV of the fund, which was about 140 pence, and what its unit's trading price of 11.5 pence reflected.
The gap between the performance of Europe and Asia's top cities has narrowed.
While there is little doubt that the emerging economies present the best chances for economic growth, not all countries will prosper at the same rate, says the Wealth Report 2012 by Knight Frank & Citi Private Bank.
