Real estate firm Lodha Developers has raised Rs 500 crore by selling a 10% stake in a project to develop a 117-storey residential tower in Mumbai to HDFC Venture Funds. “The deal shows the investor’s appetite for quality real estate projects in India,” said Abhisheck Lodha, the managing director of Lodha Developers. HDFC Venture Funds is promoted [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 25, 2010
Real estate prices are soaring, but there are hardly any takers for initial public offerings (IPOs) of developers, thanks to slowing sales, high debt and a few flops. Emaar MGF Land and Lodha Developers are among the top real estate companies estimated to raise more than Rs 20,000 crore in initial offers this year, but are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Lodha Developers is in talks with several private equity funds to sell stake in a Mumbai project to build the world’s tallest residential tower, its managing director said today. Last week, the developer said it would invest $426 million to build a 117-storey residential tower in central Mumbai and that the company could consider selling a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Real estate firm Lodha Developers plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore ($426 million) to build a 117-storey residential tower in central Mumbai, its managing director said on Tuesday. The company, which plans to launch a $650 million initial public offering later this year, will start bookings by end of this month and expects to complete the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 4, 2010
Lodha Developers, one of India’s biggest realtors, is taking a tall bet on Mumbai’s top-end residential property market as home prices continue to surge in the country’s financial capital. The company is negotiating with foreign as well as local financiers to fund what it claims would be the world’s tallest residential tower. The Lodhas are learnt [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The super luxury housing segment ranging between Rs 4 crore and Rs 30 crore, which had taken a backseat during the slowdown, is making a comeback. Over the last year, demand for super-luxury residential properties has risen by 30-40 %. Seeing the spike in demand, a clutch of realty firms such as Lodha Developers, Orbit Corporation, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 31, 2010
Mumbai-based realty firm Lodha Developers today said it has received market regulator Sebi’s approval for its Rs 2,790-crore initial public offer (IPO), which is expected to hit the capital market in the next 4-5 weeks. “We have received the final approval from Sebi,” Lodha Developers Managing Director Abhisheck Lodha told PTI. The company had filed the draft [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Mumbai-based realty firm Lodha Developers, which plans to hit the capital market with its initial public offer (IPO) early next year, will invest Rs 6,000 crore in the next three years on construction of its existing projects. “We are currently developing about 30 million sq ft of area, comprising 38 projects. The average cost of construction [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
Cash-strapped real estate companies looking for succor from the capital market are likely to run into headwinds on the pricing front. Market watchers say unless the promoters price their issues a bit more realistically, they are likely to see a tepid response from investors. Some of the high-profile new issues over the past few months were [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 25, 2009
Mumbai-based premium housing player Lodha Developers is looking at raising between Rs 2,000 crore and Rs 3,000 crore through IPO and is expected to file its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) next week. According to industry sources familiar with the company’s plans, Lodha will file DRHP within a few days and is looking at listing during [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The sales brochure offers you the opportunity to own Mumbai’s first managed private residences with a “lifestyle elevated up to the sky”. At Rs 28,000 per square foot plus other charges, Indiabulls Sky is also promising a 65-storey “marvel with opulent apartments, timeless luxury and impeccable butler service”. Indiabulls Real Estate, which has sold one-third of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
DLF, the country’s largest property developer, will soon conduct a poll among property brokers to decide the pricing and number of apartments to be offered in the second phase of its Capital Greens project in West Delhi. It’s a novel experiment, but property brokers in Delhi say the company is trying to test the waters in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
The New Delhi-based realty firm TDI is planning to invest Rs 1,000 crore to build low-priced homes in the national capital region in the next three years, a senior company executive said. “The demand for homes is coming back slowly,” said TDI managing director Kamal Taneja, outlining the company’s priority to attract buyers. TDI, which has its [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
Success of other QIPs, need for equity capital to push decision Private property developers such as Godrej Properties and Lodha Developers may tap capital markets in the next three-four months to raise funds for their ventures, according to investment banking sources. Godrej Properties, part of the Godrej group, may float an initial public offer of around Rs [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
The builders are back on Dalal Street after a gap of more than a year. At least six real estate firms plan to mop up more than $2.5 billion from the capital markets by December, 18 months after poor response forced Emaar MGF to scrap its Rs 6,500-crore maiden share issue a day after it opened in [...]
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