Tag: Kolkata

Realty projects, roads to help build-up for Unity Infraprojects

Healthy order book, strong balance sheet and the potential to unlock value from real estate projects make Unity Infraprojects a decent investment idea on a medium-term basis. Mumbai-based Unity Infraprojects is a small-sized construction firm operating in buildings, water and roads segments. The company is also developing real estate on its land parcels in Nagpur, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata […]

Gawk on India by Euro Realty

Photo by Farruska Europe is once again back into action with an prelude of investment for Kolkata’s real estate in a move deemed “a first” by experts. Expo Real, the largest European B-to-B trade fair for the international property and investment market , is the biggest European commercial property trade fair.this is an annual event that […]

Revival of Realty

Indian real estate in the last few months has authenticated a reawakening enforced by a noticeable increase in the level of construction activity of low-budget housing coupled with low home loan rates. As researched by Boston Analytics, the Indian realty sector has undergone an increased supply and pace of development activity which brought an improvement […]

Unitech looks for $560 million from PE funds

India’s second-biggest real estate developer Unitech is in talks with private equity (PE) funds for investments up to $560 million (Rs 2,750 crore). The realtor is also in negotiations with banks to restructure an additional Rs 500 crore of loans as part of its plan to cut debt and secure funding to complete existing projects. […]

SEZ growth may follow down track

The adverse effects of the Satyam fiasco are not only going to be felt by the IT industry. Even the real estate sector is worried. If global clients and investors in the IT domain decide that India is not the best place to dabble in for the moment, then there is going to be an […]

DLF To Pump In Rs 150 Billion For Residential Projects

DLF, India’s major real estate developer, announced that it plans to invest Rs 150 billion over the coming three fiscals to construct various residential projects across the country. The company has raised Rs 16,750 million as private equity in eight projects in November 2007. According to sources, DLF Home Developers, the wholly-owned arm of DLF, […]

Unitech Plans for 35 Hotels

Realty major UNITECH LTD plans to invest about Rs 2,500 crore to develop 35 hotels across India over the next seven years. Unitech managing director Sanjay Chandra said the firm would develop 35 hotels in the next six to seven years and already had land in many cities at prime locations. * The hotels would […]

Chandigarh is fourth emerging metro

ASSOCHAM study says city fares well in real estate prices, business environment but lags behind in other parameters necessary for a metro city. Chandigarh comes a close second in real estate prices, financial services and business environment, but lags behind in other five parameters necessary for a metro city, says the ASSOCHAM Eco Pulse Study. […]

Big Bazaar Targeting Network Of 145 Stores By June 2009

Retail chain Big Bazaar plans to open 15 more stores by November end, some of them in new markets, at an investment of Rs 1,500-1,600 crore. With this, Big Bazaar, a subsidiary of the Kishore Biyani-spearheaded Pantaloon Group, will have 112 stores pan-India by November, a top company official said. Big Bazaar is targeting a […]

Salim Group’s Expressway Due To Land Acquisition Problem

Days after Chief Minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee declared that Indonesia-based Salim group’s Expressway was put on hold due to the land acquirement problem, Prasoon Mukherjee, Salim Group’s pointsman and chairman of NKID (New Kolkata Infrastructure Development) expressed confidence that the other jumbo projects of the Group, including the PCPIR, are on track. Mukherjee said “We have […]

Kolkata Realty Losing Charm

Realty firms seem to have lost their appetite for properties in Kolkata, where developers such as Emaar MGF Land Ltd and DLF Ltd were fighting to secure plots for building luxury hotels. For the first time, a tender to lease out a prime 10-acre plot on the western fringes of the city is being scrapped […]

Red Fort Capital Joined Hands With Godrej Properties

Red Fort Capital, a private equity fund focused on real estate development, is in advance stages of negotiations with six developers for an equal number of projects worth Rs 4,000 crore in the metros across India. The PE fund joined hands with Godrej Properties to develop an IT park in Kolkata, where Red Fort Capital […]

Tech Mahindra To Invest Rs. 638 Crore In Next 3 Years

Tech Mahindra announced a capex plan of Rs. 638 crore ($150 million) for next three years, 60% of which will go as investments in physical infrastructure such as buildings and real estate while 40% will be used for enhancing technology. The company plans to open new centres in Belfast (Ireland), Milton Keynes (UK), Chandigarh and […]

Five Million Tonnes Steel Plant In West Bengal

KOLKATA: JaiBalaji Steel, which is investing Rs. 16,000 crore to set up a five million tonnes steel plant in West Bengal, is set to begin construction by this year on its project located in Raghunathpur in Purulia, which is one of the backward districts in the country. Addressing a press conference here, Aditya Jajodia, Chairman […]

TCS Reserves 1900 Crore For FY 08-09

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s leading software exporter, pronounced that it has reserved a capital expenditure plan of One thousand nine hundred crore rupees for the existing fiscal (2008-09). In an pronouncement, the company said that the capex is 35.7% higher than the last year’s capex of Rs 14 billion. Mr. S Mahalingam, Chief Financial […]

Rs 100 crores will be invested by Inox in east India

After putting up 24 multiplex screens across cities like Vadodara, Kolkata, Mumbai and Goa in the last 6 yrs, the company has been silently signing up properties in Burdwan Rajarhat, Panditya Road, Haldia, Howrah, Jessore Road Asansol and even Siliguri to throw open multiplexes. The total investment is estimated to be over one hundred crores […]

Real estate expecting twelve billion dollar PE funds

Mumbai,  With the Indian real estate market slated to grow 35-40% in value terms over the next two years, private equity (PE) players are lining up significant investments in the segment. Led by Blackstone and the PE arm of Deutsche Bank, a host of players—including Red Fort Capital Advisors, Starwood Capital and Walton Street—are expected […]

Sistema Will Invest In Hospitality Sector In India

Kolkata, April 30:- Mr Alexander A. Chinyaev, the chief representative in India of Sistema said that after venturing into the Indian telecom business, Russian conglomerate Sistema is now planning to tap the real estate and hospitality industries in India. The London Stock Exchange-listed public sector company is looking at investing an estimated eight hundred crore […]

Kolkata Playing Catch Up

Kolkata, which had lost out to other metros in the frenzied run for realty, is catching up big time. This week the Apeejay group, which owns The Park Hotels, bagged a prime 3.35-acre property along Kolkata’s eastern metropolitan bypass for Rs 135.77 crore. The group, which already has a hotel on Park Street in downtown […]

Red Fort to invest Rs 3,500cr via FDI route

Red Fort Capital Advisors, a real estate equity firm, will invest three thousand five hundred crore in residential and hospitality projects all over the country, including seven hundred crore in Chennai. The funds will be channelized through the foreign direct investment (FDI) route. The money will be invested in real estate projects such as commercial, […]

K Raheja enter in logistics business

MUMBAI: K Raheja Corp, a top real estate company, has entered into a fifty fifty joint venture with Colorado-based ProLogis, a leading owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities globally. The joint venture is for warehousing and logistic infrastructure development in India and is ProLogis’ first business in the country. According to the agreement, the […]

Singapore Realty Developer plans to tap Indian Market

Singapore’s largest private property developer, the $4-billion Far East Organization, is keen to get a toehold in India. The Singapore conglomerate is talking to prospective Indian partners for its proposed foray in the booming realty market, especially in major metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Mr.Chia Boon Kuah, executive director, said “We are talking […]

Delay in land acquisition derails TML’s expansion plan

Excessive delay in land acquisition by the West Bengal government has disrupted the expansion plan of Tata Metaliks (TML) in Kolkata. Mr. Harsh K Jha, Managing Director, TML, told the reporter on Monday that the company had applied for 350 acres of land near the existing plant at Kharagpur for expansion in February 2005. Further […]