1.Data centres:India’s most attractive emerging asset class

A recent Colliers India investment report solicited responses from the top 40 institutional investors in the country to understand their investment priorities in 2019.

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2.Hot locations

With some states like Maharashtra putting in place a Cloud policy, Ritesh Sachdev, Head, Occupier Services, India, and Managing Director, South, Colliers International India, advises occupiers to scout for data centre opportunities in Pune and Navi Mumbai, apart from IT centres like Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

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3.Real Estate Budget Reactions

A mixed bag of reactions by real estate sector on full Union Budget 2019-20

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4.Dr Niranjan Hiranandani, President, NAREDCO, says the sector expects announcements which will transform the economy from ‘Developing’ to ‘Developed’.

New MODI 2.0 government is all geared to set the ball rolling with its first union budget presentation on July 5. With this, Indian real estate sector builds the wish list in anticipation to give much required impetus to the slow-moving sector.

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5.The Sunrise Sector

The year 2018 saw India’s warehousing and logistics sector coming of age, outshining some conventional real-estate asset classes and attracting the attention of global investors.

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6.A critical challenge in warehousing is still buying land

Need to standardise building and design for warehouse development

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7.What operating models do warehouse developers prefer?

Leased ready-built properties seen as a major preference by tenants

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8.What’s trending in warehouse design?

There is huge demand for large-format, modern, Grade-A warehousing spaces

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9.Development portfolio of large warehousing developers

Investments by IndoSpace, Embassy Industrial Parks, Hiranandani Communities

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10.Is RERA focusing on quality of buildings?

Recent circular made it mandatory for engineers to submit quarterly review

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