Institutional investment in Asian real estate has climbed so high it has reached what one real-estate executive in a recent survey called “nosebleed levels,” with each dollar of available property attracting $5 in capital in …

Cash-strapped Unitech is looking at raising around Rs 1,250 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP), according to domestic institutional investors. The QIP proceeds are likely to be used to partially repay the Rs 500-crore …

Prominent retail firms are scouring the job market for people to man front-end staff positions as high attrition levels threaten to affect their operations and crimp their expansion plans.
Many retailers have cut down on the …

Companies in the organised retail sector, which expect the current rough patch to reflect in the March quarter results, are looking at reorganising their businesses to beat the slowdown. With the current business model failing …

United Business Media (UBM) India, the Indian arm of UK-based UBM, has launched a real-estate magazine, Property World, in India. The B2B monthly magazine is targeted at professionals in the real-estate sector, real-estate developers, private …

Having devised plans to raise Rs 1,400-1500 crore through a preferential issue of shares to promoters and private equity players, Future Group has embarked on a major revamp of its listed entity Pantaloon Retail.
The exercise …

City realtors are set to woo the non-resident Bengali community in recession-hit North America with their first “comprehensive” real estate roadshow in that part of the world.
Credai Bengal, the state chapter of the national umbrella …

The last quarter of 2008 witnessed the Financial Slowdown & Global Meltdown starting with the Lehman Brothers. Peoples’ sentiments changed along with the interest rates in the housing sector due to these occurrences. The last …

Real estate is all about price, available financing, and confidence. If one of those components is absent, the market will stagnate or fall. Such has been the state of Michigan’s real-estate industry over the last …

Rohit Gera
The global financial meltdown has had the first level impact – that of shocking the world and causing the global markets to crash. Once the markets recaliberate their expectations factoring in a new set …