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Arcadia At Sahakar Nagar – Luxury Redefined In Pune’s Most Exclusive Neighbourhood: Kishor Pate, CMD – Amit Enterprises Housing Ltd.

Pune’s rapid urbanization causes new areas to spring up as real estate destinations with every passing year. Simultaneously, the city’s population itself is becoming more and more homogenized, with traditional value systems giving way to a more modern, all-encompassing outlook. Pune is witnessing a very high rate of cross-border cultural exchange, with an increasing number …

Bangalore Real Estate Update 2013: Sanjay Chugh – Head – Residential Services (Bangalore & Chennai) Jones Lang LaSalle India

Bangalore has been the fastest-growing city of India since the past few decades. IT has been the major growth driver and is responsible for aggressive real estate development in the city. Being the IT hub of India, Bangalore has a multi-cultural population with good social infrastructure, excellent educational institutes and constantly upgrading physical infrastructure. Currently, …

What To Look For In A Township Property: Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group

We have entered an era of Indian real estate wherein townships have become the most important model of real estate development in the foreseeable future. In most large Indian cities, real estate development has been reactive rather than proactive, meaning that infrastructure has not stayed abreast with actual real estate development. As a result, the …

Six Fuel Efficient Hatchbacks in the Run for Best-Seller This Diwali

Hatchbacks have always been the triumph card for auto majors in India; the liking of the blue-collar Indian consumers for this segment has never diminished. Apparently time and again the other segments have raised their heads to challenge its supremacy on the small car segment. However, the sky-rocketing fuel prices along with the hike in …

Indian Cities Shed Labels As Office Space Trends Diversify: Ashutosh Limaye, Head – Research & REIS, Jones Lang LaSalle India

Cities once known to be the long-time bases of specific occupier sectors are now experiencing a different and more divergent client patronage. This is because occupiers are increasingly trodding a different path by choosing cities that have not historically been associated with particular industries or business sectors. The last twenty-one months (January 2012-September 2013) have …

Business Education for working professionals in the Technology industry –Relevance and options: Dinesh Singh, Sunstone Business School

In late 1990s and early 2000s, the best career option for graduates was to move in technology companies in professional services, telecom, enterprise, embedded. These were technology centric roles and provided initial growth in first few years. However, technology professionals face lot of challenges in growth once they have crossed a certain stage. The relevance …

The 21st Century will belong to Cost and Management Accountants – Pawan Kumar Ruia, Chairman, Ruia Group

Inaugural Speech delivered by Mr Pawan Kumar Ruia at a one-day symposium on ” Cost Audit for Inclusive Growth”, Organized by the Western India Regional Council of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) (as prepared for delivery) Friday, 25th October 2013 at Y.B. Chavan Auditorium, Mumbai The 21st Century will belong to Cost and Management Accountants Dignitaries …

Soft-Power or Hard-Power? Let’s put our heart where the money is – Pratim Ranjan Bose

Many years ago, I wrote a ‘story’, as we journalists describe newspaper reports, about an Indian company planning to sell solar powered inverter kits, good enough to run a TV, to Afghanistan. This was soon after the US invaded the frontier country and established a Taliban-free Hamid Karzai government. The war ravaged country was devoid …

Gold Update – Umesh Shanmugam

GOLD: GOLD triggered a recovery higher the past week leaving room for more upside in the new week. However, it will have to overcome the 1,329 level to extend its upside. A failure for this to occur could mean a return to the downside with eyes on the 1,240.00 level with a turn below here …

Asian Residential Real Estate Yields – Irrational Risk-Return Profile

Ashutosh Limaye, Head – Research & REIS, Jones Lang LaSalle India Residential rental yields* across Tier I cities in Asia have an interesting story to tell. While yields in India are higher than in Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing, they are lower than in cities such as Jakarta and Manila. Several factors are responsible for …