Showing posts with label Real Estate Investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Real Estate Investment. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Triangle RE fund to raise five hundred million dollar for Indian realty

o cash in on the growth of organised retail in India, UK and South Africa-based real estate investment groups have launched retail property focused Triangle Real Estate Fund (TREF) for India. The $500 million fund will be routed through Mauritius and will be managed by Property Zone - a joint venture between Old Mutual Investment Group Property investment Ltd., South Africa and ICS Realty Private Limited, India.

Strutt & Parker Real Estate Financial Service Limited (SPREFS) has been appointed as UK and European placing agent. “Unlike most other real estate investors, the fund will dedicatedly concentrate on tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India.
Four projects in cities of Aurangabad, Jaipur, Indore and Nagpur have been selected for the first phase of investment. Surat is also being considered,” Nick Harvey Jones of SPREF told DNA Money.
“It is a high net worth investor fund which requires minimum investment of $5,00,000 form an individual and $5 million form institutional investors,” he added.
Two deals, consisting of 11 projects and having cumulative worth over $200 million, are in the pipeline.

Ishaan Real Estate Plc. Hopeful Of Good Progress In 2008

LONDON - India-based real estate investment company Ishaan Real Estate Plc. told that it has leased and pre-let 577,000 square feet of office and retail space, growing the total area of leased and pre-let space in its commercial and retail development projects to 2.4 million square feet.
Ian Henderson chairman of Ishaan Real Estate Plc. told that they are predicting to make strong progress on construction and leasing activity during the remainder of 2008.
The company said around twenty percent of the saleable residential space in its first-class residential development project, Vivarea, in central Mumbai city, has now been pre-sold, also at prices above those expected at the time of admission.
Ishaan Real Estate said pre-sales of the apartments commenced at the end of October and are experiencing strong demand.