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India's billionaire club to grow 37% in 5 years, to beat global average

The number in Asia is expected to touch 1,003 in the next four years - more than a third of the world's total billionaire population of 2,696, says Knight Frank study

Shapoorji, ADIA tie up for $1.2-billion fund to invest in logistics centres

The partners will raise the fund in two tranches of $600 million each

Piramal Enterprises cuts exposure to realtors, raises home finance share

Piramal Capital & Housing Finance had a loan book of Rs 55,255 crore as on end-December

We're realigning to market, internal targets: Tata Housing MD Sanjay Dutt

You have to align to local markets and focus on the needs of customers in that market and deliver to their expectations, says Tata Housing MD Sanjay Dutt

Realty funds ask for higher cover, turn cautious in lending to developers

HDFC Capital, real estate fund management arm of HDFC, is also taking a conservative view on the assumptions regarding sales and cash flow

Noel Tata, a cautious risk-taker, ready for a bigger role at Tata Trusts

Noel is the half-brother of Ratan Tata and brother-in-law of former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry

Actis plans to launch $500-mn India-focused real estate fund this year

This would be the first India-focused real estate fund launched by any global fund manager since US-based JP Morgan raised one in 2014

Piramal, CDPQ arm join hands to invest Rs 500 crore in Lodha project

Lodha had a debt of Rs 23,100 crore as of March last year

How some big-ticket office deals hit a roadblock because of market delays

Amit Goenka, MD at Nisus Finance, said yield expectations of investors had gone up, with the rise in loan and capitalisation

HDFC Capital, Mumbai realtor Rustomjee form affordable housing platform

On Monday, Rustomjee announced that it has tied up with Ikea to furnish its 1,200 houses in Global City, which has a debt funding from Piramal Enterprises

Realtors hiring from PEs, banks to raise funds in liquidity-short sector

Most property developers are in dire need of funds after non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) began cutting disbursal after the IL&FS default, say consultants who deal with realty companies

IPO market is double-edged sword for the PE investors: S Sriniwasan

S Sriniwasan, managing director at Kotak Investment Advisors, discusses real estate markets and the PE segment with Business Standard

Post GST, more global investors set eyes on India's warehousing, logistics

These investors are looking to tap the opportunities in the segment in the post-Goods & Services tax (GST) regime, which has made the country a uniform market

Lodha Developers changes NCD terms, investors to get early interest payment

Investors will continue to get 9.5% interest on NCDs worth Rs 495 crore after completion of the moratorium period

As NBFCs retreat, private equity funds move in to fund realty projects

Motilal Oswal, HDFC Capital, Xander and other PE funds focused on this segment find opportunity in NBFC retreat

Shapoorji to roll out 80 mn sq ft housing projects in the next three years

This is the biggest volume of launch by any realtor in the country

Air India invites bids from only central govt entities for Mumbai building

The national carrier will retain 5,000 square feet office space on the 22nd floor; building name will remain unchanged

Embassy-Blackstone REIT likely to hit Indian market early next year

The annual rental income of the portfolio is over Rs 20 billion and is expected to go up by 50 per cent in the next three years as rentals go up

Real estate investment platforms, JVs raise $6 bn to date for India: JLL

The industrial and warehousing segment, 12 per cent of the total capital raised by investment platform funds, is expected to witness a big shift

Maharashtra's builders, buyers in jam after SC bans construction activity

On Friday, the SC imposed a blanket ban on construction activity in the state as well as in Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh