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Ramesh Nair, COO – Business & International Director, JLL India The Indian monsoon months are synonymous with low activity in real estate, but this year witnessed considerable amount of activity in the office sector. Compared with last year’s monsoon months of July, August and September (3Q CY 2013), this period in 2014 showed 58% …
We have about 16 years to prevent the most dangerous effects of climate change from unleashing on us, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fifth report. The world has recorded unparalleled amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming since the 1950’s, due to industrialization and modern lifestyles. The validity of …
Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India Earlier in October, the US National Association of Realtors published a report which stated that buyers from India purchased residential properties in the US estimated at $5.8 billion in value during the one-year period ending March 2014. This investment magnitude represented an approximate growth of 6% …
Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group A high-rise is a tall or multi-storied building equipped with elevators, but various bodies have defined the term ‘high-rise differently. For instance, the International Conference on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings pessimistically defined a high-rise as a structure where height can seriously impact evacuation, while the Shorter Oxford …
Om Ahuja, CEO – Residential Services, JLL India Luxury homes in India are often offered with a very confusing set of qualifying parameters. Developers heavily promote specifications and amenities in their marketing collaterals, but fail to mention a far more critical parameter. On analyzing the unfolding luxury homes story in India, it becomes …
Sachin Agarwal, CMD – Maple Shelters Like every other form of housing, affordable homes need space in order to be built. Even more importantly, affordable housing needs to be available in locations where it is needed the most. In most cases, we see affordable housing projects coming up only in distant suburbs. This is …
Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, JLL India Over the years, Indian real estate has been a seemingly limitless source of negative hype. Scams, controversies, rumblings about delayed projects, agitations by consumers and debates about the over/under-regulation of the real estate sector have all provided ready cannon fodder for countless publications, internet forums and …
India’s new government under NarendraModi wants to make the country a favorite destination of international solar investment. To that end, a heavily publicized “RE Invest Summit”will be held in Delhi in February (link). Most international and Indian investors understand well the underlying, strategic case for solar in India. The question is: when will the bright …
Writes, Dr Rajeev K Sharma, Senior Consultant, Orthopedics & Joint Replacement Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. Bones form the skeletal structure of our bodies and play a number of functions to keep its functioning normal. From protecting the internal organs like heart and lungs and ribs, to enabling a base structure for muscles …
Sachin Agarwal, CMD – Maple Shelters Like every other form of housing, affordable homes need space in order to be built. Even more importantly, affordable housing needs to be available in locations where it is needed the most. In most cases, we see affordable housing projects coming up only in distant suburbs. This is …