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Godrej Properties is expecting to maintain its growth trajectory on strong consumer demand for homes and has set a target to achieve a 14 per cent increase in pre-sales this fiscal to Rs 39,000 crore, its executive chairperson Pirojsha Godrej said. In an interview with PTI, he highlighted that the company has performed very well during the last four years on key financial and operational metrics and said the company sees "no hindrance" in meeting the growth target for the current fiscal despite global uncertainties. However, Pirojsha said the company would remain "watchful" and "careful" to uncertainties caused by West Asia conflict for making any adjustment in its business plan. "We are feeling pretty good about the year ahead. Of course, we have to be a little bit careful with what happens globally. But, overall, feeling pretty good about where things stand at the moment. Demand continues to be quite strong," he said. Pirojsha noted that the Indian real estate market is witnessin
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has restored flats, commercial units and plots worth Rs 175 crore to more than 200 homebuyers who had been waiting to get possession of their dream home for over 12 years, the agency said. The unsold inventory of 354 flats, 17 commercial units and two plots belong to a project named Royal Rajvilas (RRV) in Rajasthan's Udaipur. The project's present market value is about Rs 175 crore, the ED said in a statement issued on Tuesday. The case pertains to a money laundering investigation against an accused named Bharat Bomb, apart from some others, who are alleged to have cheated the Syndicate Bank (now Canara Bank) to the tune of Rs 1267.79 crore between 2011 and 2016. The ED had attached properties worth Rs 535 crore in this case in April, 2019 including assets of Rs 83.51 crore in the form of unsold/unregistered inventory of a company named Udaipur Entertainment World Private Limited (UEWPL). Multiple cases were filed against this attachment order and
India's top eight property markets saw a 2 per cent decline in housing sales during the January-June period, but office space leasing rose 41 per cent, according to Knight Frank. In a webinar on Thursday, real estate consultant Knight Frank released its data for the Indian real estate market for January-June 2025. The data showed that housing sales fell 2 per cent annually to 1,70,201 units during the first six months of this calendar year across eight major cities. In contrast, the leasing of office spaces rose 41 per cent to 48.9 million (489 lakh) square feet area during January-June 2025. The gross leasing stood at a record 71.9 million square feet for the entire 2024. Considering the strong performance during the first half, the consultant expects the leasing number to scale a new high of 80-90 million square feet in the full current year. In the residential segment, the consultant noted that the weighted average price across eight cities rose in a range of 2 per cent to 14