Category: Expert Views

The Resurgence of Shopping Malls in India

March 5, 2018

By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants With the advent of e-commerce in India, shopping converged into mobile devices in the form of websites and/or apps. At the click of a button, one could buy groceries, apparel, electronics and almost everything else. For a while, it appeared that ‘couch potato shopping’ was a real […]

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State of Residential Real Estate – 2 Months into 2018

February 28, 2018

By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants Green shoots new launch revival; 100% month-on-month rise in absorption levels 2017 has been an action-packed year, not just for the real estate sector but for the entire nation. While the structural changes and policy reforms (demonetization, RERA and GST) shook up the economy, it imbibed financial […]

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2018 – A Year of Consolidation for Smaller Developers

February 22, 2018

 By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants Consolidation is the process of combining a number of separate parts into a single, more effective or coherent one. Whenever there is consolidation in any sector, the general perception is that everything is going down the drain. However, the reality is that this process usually happens at […]

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Factors That Can Negatively Impact Property Investment Profits

February 21, 2018

By Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants Real estate investors need to be an exceptionally canny lot, since various factors can negatively affect the value of one’s real estate assets. Being aware of these – and making suitable provisions and allowances for them – is an inalienable part of successful property investment. The rising cost […]

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Housing India’s Construction Workers

February 19, 2018

By Realty Quarter Bureau Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants The construction sector is one of the largest employment generators in India, and the country will need approximately 76.5 million workers in the building, construction and real estate sector by 2022. Despite it being a job creation engine for people from the economically weaker […]

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How Tech-savvy Talent Drives Today’s Business Environment

 By Sukhdeep Aurora, Chief People Officer – ANAROCK Property Consultants As the oft-repeated saying goes – change is the only constant. The business environment is a constantly-evolving organism which, in the wake of its rapid progress, has started making new demands on its stakeholders. Technology has emerged as the biggest change architect driving not only […]

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Will Bitcoin Buy You Property in India Anytime Soon?

January 5, 2018

By Realty Quarter Bureau  By Anuj Puri, Chairman – Anarock Property Consultants From official acceptance to investment safety, crypto-currencies are nowhere near becoming viable tender to buy property here Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies have been in the news a lot if recent times, often for the wrong reasons but also because of the massive appreciation Bitcoin has been clocking up. To […]

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Chembur’s Fascinating Real Estate Transformation

November 29, 2017

By Prashant Thakur, Head – Research, ANAROCK Property Consultants It was known primarily as an industrial destination with the presence of companies such as RCF and BARC. Today, Chembur is transforming rapidly into a premium real estate destination of Mumbai, with industrial units, dilapidated slums and old buildings being replaced by modern high-rise towers. The Mahul […]

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Highways to Life – Housing on Mumbai’s Western Express Highway

November 27, 2017

By Ashutosh Limaye, National Director – Research, JLL India The lifeline of Mumbai has always been the suburban train network with local trains supporting more than 7.5 million commuters daily.  However, due to immense overcrowding in local trains, the highway in the upmarket western suburbs is a viable commuting alternative for office goers. Proximity to the […]

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Mumbai Gets its Latest Well-planned Business District

November 22, 2017

By Ashutosh Limaye, National Director – Research, JLL India More than four decades after completion of the city’s last planned district centre – Bandra-Kurla Complex – comes a new kid on the block in northern Mumbai:Oshiwara District Centre (ODC). Even as the potential of BKC to provide further office space nears exhaustion, ODC has been set up by […]

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