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Godrej Properties continues to be bullish about housing demand and will acquire this fiscal year multiple land parcels with a total revenue potential of around Rs 30,000 crore, a top company official said. Godrej Properties is aggressively acquiring land parcels outright and also partnering land owners to expand its business. In an interview with PTI, Godrej Properties Executive Chairperson Pirojsha Godrej said the company's business development, which means new land acquisition, has been pretty strong during the first six months of this fiscal and the pipeline for the second half also looks attractive. Godrej Properties recently announced that the company has surpassed the business development guidance of Rs 20,000 crore for the current fiscal. Pirojsha said the company keeps business development target conservative to avoid any pressure on the internal team for land acquisitions. "Land market has heated up. But, we should do at least Rs 30,000 crore GDV (gross development value
Godrej Properties will meet or may even exceed its pre-sales target of Rs 32,500 crore for this fiscal, as the housing demand environment continues to be "attractive", a top company official said. In an interview with PTI, Godrej Properties Executive Chairperson Pirojsha Godrej exuded confidence that the company would achieve annual guidance across key metrics -- pre-sales or sales bookings, collections from customers, deliveries, new project launches, and land acquisitions. On the company's second quarter performance, he said, "I think, overall market is holding up well. The demand environment continues to be quite attractive". Pirojsha said the company's pre-sales grew 13 per cent in the first six months of this fiscal to Rs 15,587 crore from Rs 13,835 crore in the year-ago period. "We have already achieved about 48 per cent of our full-year guidance. Now, if you look at past years, typically, the second half is always quite a bit stronger than the first half. So, we are very ...
Realty firm Godrej Properties will meet its target to sell properties worth Rs 14,000 crore this fiscal year as it expects strong demand for ongoing and upcoming housing projects, its Executive Chairperson Pirojsha Godrej said. Godrej Properties, the real estate arm of Godrej Group, had sold properties worth Rs 12,232 crore in the previous fiscal. In an interview with PTI, Pirojsha Godrej said the company is focusing on the launch and timely execution of new housing projects across major cities. "We are confident of meeting the annual guidance of Rs 14,000 crore of sales bookings. Hopefully, we can do better," he said when asked about the company's sales performance. The company has achieved 48 per cent growth in its sales bookings to Rs 7,288 crore during the April-September period of 2023-24 fiscal from Rs 4,929 crore in the year-ago period. Pirojsha noted that the company has an aggressive launch pipeline in the second half of this fiscal in four focus markets -- Delhi-NCR, Mum