Fewer big deals in commercial realty
Some of the few marque transactions in the first nine months of the calendar year 2012 include Cipla’s proposed purchase of 1.3 lakh sq ft in Peninsula Business Park in Lower Parel in Mumbai at an estimated R270 crore. Engineering services firm Robert Bosch is understood to be picking up 1.28 lakh sq ft in Bangalore at an annual lease rent of a tad over R7 crore. Broadridge, another US servicing company for financial industry, is believed to have picked up 2 lakh sq ft in Hyderabad, paying an estimated R8.8 crore in annual rent, among other transactions.
Office space absorption declined to about 6 million sq ft in three months of July-September 2012 compared with more than 7 million sq ft in April-June months of 2012, according to global real estate consultant CB Richard Ellis’ third quarter office real estate review.
With bleak economic sentiments taking a toll on the expansion plans of corporate sector, sluggishness in the IT and ITES segments and falling business momentum in the manufacturing sector, the commercial real estate in the country could be headed for tougher times.
IT, which used to command almost half of the office real estate demand, had shrunk to about 20% in the June to March period of 2012.
“Unless there is meaningful improvement in these macro
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