Brigade Group enters villa segment with Devanahalli project

Brigade Group, a Bangalore-based real estate developer, announced its entry into plotted development or the villa space, responding to post-COVID changes in the market. The company said it plans to announce several gated community villa projects in the coming months. It will start off with a 66-acre project in Devanahalli, near the Bangalore airport, on […]

Mahindra Lifespace announces new real estate project at Kandivali

Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd, a real estate construction company within the Mahindra & Mahindra group, has agreed to buy 9.24 acres of prime land from its parent, auto maker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, for development. “This new project is Mahindra Lifespaces’ second residential development in Kandivali after its successful ‘Mahindra Roots’ project and will offer […]

DLF sells Rs 1,500 cr worth of luxury flats in ONE Midtown in Delhi

DLF, one of India’s top real estate developers, said it has sold Rs 1,500 cr worth of luxury flats in ONE Midtown, its upcoming addition to the high-end Midtown township project being created west of Patel Nagar in Delhi. Midtown is designed as an ‘ecosystem of luxury residences, office and commercial spaces’ in ‘rolling acres […]

Kolte-Patil has a good quarter on strong real estate market

Kolte-Patil Developers reported a strong second quarter for the financial year, as the real estate recovery seen in earlier quarters continued apace. The company’s collections — a measure of the cash it managed to collect from buyers — zoomed 86% compared to the COVID-ravaged second quarter of last year, and was up 34% compared to […]

Havells sees shift to organized players as input prices rise

Havells India, one of the country’s largest electrical equipment makers, said it expects organized players such as itself to benefit as raw material price increases put pressure on unorganized players. The company, a prominent player in the switchgear, wire and lighting segments in India, also said that demand for electrical goods in India is on […]

Post COVID, Raymond cancels demerger of apparels, to monetize real estate

Mumbai-based Raymond Ltd said it has abandoned its two-year-old plan of splitting its garments, or lifestyle, business into a different company, and will instead focus on monetizing its engineering business. The company also said it will spin off its real estate business into a new company, but wholly owned by Raymond Ltd. In 2019, Raymond […]

Sunteck Realty Q1 sees sequential decline as second wave hits

Sunteck Realty reported a sequential decline in its collections for the first quarter of FY22 compared to the immediately preceding fourth quarter of FY21, as COVID-19 curtailed new launches. Nevertheless, collections were far better than the year-ago numbers. Collections refer to the actual cash that the company collects from its buyers. Total collections for the […]

Puravankara believes offices will return, intros WfH tweaks

Puravankara Ltd, the biggest residential real estate brand in Bangalore, said it is making changes to its apartment designs to attract work-from-home customers, but believes that employees will shift back to the work-from-office model in another 12-18 months. STRONG DEMAND The company has been seeing strong demand for its residential flats, as buyers increasingly prefer […]

Sobha to create ‘mini New York’ on Hosur road

Sobha Ltd, one of India’s largest real estate developers, said it will build a ‘Manhattan-like’ mini city at Yadavanahalli, which lies between Electronics City and Hosur towards the south east of Bangalore. Despite its somewhat removed location, the project is targeted at the well-to-do, with the three-bedroom flats costing upwards of Rs 90 lakh. Chairman […]

Malls may take six months to normalize – Prestige Estates

Prestige Estates Projects, which operates some of India’s top malls such as Bangalore’s Forum Mall, said retail spending has recovered to around 70-80% of normal levels, though it may take several months for it to fully normalize. “The malls should be back in the next six months, they should stabilize fully. Hospitality should take a […]

L&T says good response to Seawoods Residences Ph II

Larsen & Toubro, India’s biggest construction firm, said it has got an encouraging response to the launch of its second phase of its Seawoods Residences project in Navi Mumbai. The first phase of the semi-premium housing project, launched early last year, saw decent levels of interest, with reports claiming that the company got 1,800 bookings […]

Godrej Properties to build new flat complex in Kalyan

Godrej Properties, arguably the healthiest and fastest growing of the major Indian real estate companies, today said it has agree to purchase a 20 acre project in Kalyan near Mumbai for a residential project. “This project will offer approximately 139,000 square meters (1.5 million square feet) of saleable area comprising primarily of residential apartments of […]

Mall footfalls down 75%-80% – Prestige Estates Projects

Prestige Estates Projects Ltd, which operates nine malls including The Forum Mall in Bangalore, said footfalls are down 75%-80% at malls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to investors after detailing the company’s June quarter results last week, company officials also said they were seeing signs of stress among customers of residential properties, even though […]

D-Mart working on new cities, but COVID-19 impact to show

D-Mart, India’s most famous deep discount retail chain, said it is working on expanding its footprint beyond its current footprint of 214 locations, but the ongoing COVID-19 will impact the number of new stores that will be opened this year. The company, which started with just two stores in Mumbai in 2002-03, expanded to 214 […]