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Mumbai Real Estate: The Redevelopment Maze

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group   Redevelopment is not a new phenomenon in Mumbai. Various parts of the city have being seeing redevelopment in pockets for many years as the city planning authorities strive to accelerate urban renewal and improve the quality of real estate and infrastructure, and developers strive to make a …

Smaller Developers Prefer Residential To Commercial Development

Arvind Jain, Managing Director, Pride Group   It is a known fact that commercial real estate in India is a lucrative proposition for developers. Why, then, do we see new developers concentrating on residential apartments rather than commercial projects in commercial hotspots like Pune? There are various reasons for this.    In the first place, …

Mumbai Real Estate – Constraint-Driven Growth Pattern

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group Mumbai city was originally reclaimed from the sea by joining seven islands, with the intention of creating a shipping and trading hub for the British. However, the city that resulted from this exercise attracted a magnitude of population which was very disproportionate to that in any of the …

Pune Real Estate – Looking Back On 2014 And Into 2015

Kishor Pate, CMD – Amit Enterprises Housing Ltd Pune’s real estate market held its own in 2014 and its residential sector in fact out-performed most other markets in India. Appreciation in both mid-range and high-end properties was in excess of 30%, which was much higher than Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai. However, it was not all …

Investment In Residential Or Commercial Property – Which is Better?

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group Residential and commercial property investment is the obvious choice for most property investors, but there are essential differences between these two asset classes. When the choice falls between either residential or commercial property investment in India, residential does have certain advantages. In most Indian cities, there is usually …

What Yo Need To Know About High-Rise Buildings

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group A high-rise is a tall or multi-storied building equipped with elevators, but various bodies have defined the term ‘high-rise differently. For instance, the International Conference on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings pessimistically defined a high-rise as a structure where height can seriously impact evacuation, while the Shorter Oxford …

Retirement Homes – Is India Delivering The Goods?

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group Technically speaking, retirement home projects are developed keeping in mind certain age groups, and should ideally be designed with special facilities to make life more comfortable for senior citizens. However, the on-ground interpretation in India has for the longest time been that any project and location that fits …

Satellite Cities – The New Investment Mantra

Arvind Jain, Managing Director – Pride Group Rapid urbanization has thrown up many complicated challenges for home owners as well as city planners. While most of the debate tends to revolve around how to improve living conditions in the core urban areas, real estate developers in many cities like Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore are now …