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Motilal Oswal's real estate arm to raise Rs 800 crore via fifth fund

The fund has been set up as an alternate investment fund, firm expects to achieve first close by March and conclude fundraising in the next 6-9 months

Jefferies expects home prices to surge by over 10% in next two years

Leading realtors say it's difficult to judge the trend

Warehousing absorption to grow 83% on e-commerce, manufacturing expansion

Third party and e-commerce accounted for 60% of total absorption in 2020, followed by manufacturing at 24%. That year, investments of over $1-bn were made in industrial & warehousing market

Hines' India arm to launch third-party asset management business this year

Globally, its asset management business includes 344 properties (143.7 million square feet). Recently DLF bought Hines' stake in One Horizone Center for Rs 780 crore

Maharashtra move to cut construction premiums to lower project costs by 17%

However, developers peg the benefit at 6 to 7 per cent after passing on stamp duty costs to buyers

Boost to realty as Maharashtra govt slashes premium for construction by 50%

Reduction approved under new DCPR rule 2034 across the board for on-going and new projects up to Dec 31, 2021

Mahindra Lifespaces to raise number of launches, eyes sales of Rs 2,500 cr

The company's stock has risen 95 per cent since beginning of FY21

Quarterly absorption of office space reaches Q1 levels in Q4CY2020

Hyderabad led the pack with the highest net absorption in Q4CY2020

New investors flock to warehousing as existing ones rush for exit door

Savills Research expects private equity investors to assess an opportunity of around $330 million in the industrial and warehousing segments in 2021

Prestige Estates, Century in talks to develop Rs 600-crore property

Bengaluru asset has a development value of Rs 12,000-14,000 crore

Average property prices in top 7 cities increase 14%, rise most in Pune

Among the top 7 cities, Pune saw the maximum rise of 38 per cent during the period

Pent up demand for residential properties to drive sales for few more qtrs

Both developers and fund managers believe that residential has rebounded better than commercial properties

Canada pension board, Mitsui deals still on for commercial properties: RMZ

According to Raj Menda, chairman of RMZ, the deal would be higher than what was originally planned and involves more cities than just Chennai and Bengaluru

BK Birla group's realty arm to launch one housing project every quarter

Birla Estates aims to become one of the country's largest property developers; is starting the next phases of some of its existing projects

After NCR, DLF to delve into Mumbai, Chennai residential-property markets

The developer started concentrating on Delhi-NCR after selling some of its land parcels in cities such as Mumbai in 2012 to reduce debt.

Will exercise first refusal on Hines stake in Gurugram property: DLF

Blackstone, Brookfield, Allianz make ₹2,000-crore bid for the property

Real estate firms see good traction for plotted developments in WFH world

Godrej Properties, part of Godrej group, last month launched plotted developments of 1 million sq ft in Faridabad on 43.61 acres of land acquired from BPTP, an NCR-based developer

Prestige Estates Projects looks to offload residual stake in malls

Prestige will sell 85-87 per cent in its nine operational malls to Blackstone in places such as Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, and Hyderabad

Will retire Rs 6,000-crore debt after Blackstone deal: Prestige Estates CMD

The total portfolio is expected to be around 21 million square feet (mn sq ft) of completed and under construction projects, said CMD Razack

SP realty arm treading a cautious path, to scale down 3BHK flats in Mumbai

Six months ago, it was looking at increasing the number of three-bedroom apartments by 5 per cent