According to CBRE India's latest India Office MarketView Report Q4 2016, India's office market witnessed an all time high annual absorption of over 43 million square feet in 2016
According to CBRE's second-edition of Four Quadrants Asia Pacific, as several interest rate cuts were recorded across the region, debt financing turned more active while the equity funding market slowed down.
Asia continued to dominate the world's most expensive office locations, accounting for four of the top five markets. London's West End remains the world's highest-priced office market.
London's West End continued to be the world's highest-priced office market but Asia dominated the world's most expensive office locations.
Asian cross-border commercial real estate (CRE) investment in Q1 2015, at $8.6 billion, constituted the strongest recorded Q1 outbound performance since major Asian outflows began.
Tokyo cemented its lead as the top destination in the APAC region for market entries by international retailers, as cities in Asia Pacific saw 464 new retail entrants in 2014.
Economic growth in Asia Pacific will remain ahead of the world average in the coming years.
CBRE Asia is predicting that domestic and Asia-regional firms will drive leasing markets in APAC in 2015.
Legislation by the Indian government which increased the limit to USD 125,000 per financial year from USD 75,000 is boosting demand for student property in the UK.
Asia continues to dominate the world's most expensive office locations, accounting for seven of the top ten markets.
Office leasing momentum generally remained steady across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in Q3, 2014.
India has relaxed its rules on overseas investment in construction, which is expected to give a huge boost to property development in the country.
Piramal Enterprises Limited, one of India's largest diversified companies, will invest in India's residential property market.
Demand for office space in India is picking up after the market suffered along with the wider real estate sector.
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. is joining Ascendas Pte. to invest as much as S$600 million in commercial property in India, according to a company announcement.
India's malls are struggling amid weak consumer sentiment and poor planning, with up to 80 per cent of retail space lying vacant in more than 250 shopping centers that have opened in the country over the past couple of years, according to a survey.
India's hotel industry is facing several challenges in the year ahead amid a wave of new property openings and a weak economic backdrop, analysts say.
India's property markets closed 2012 with a few notes of positivity as the inflation was below the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) projected levels.
