Real estate
Canary Wharf owner Songbird says its valuation of £2.82 bn exceeds QIA - Brookfield takeover price
28 Nov 2014
Blackstone to buy GE’s real estate business in Japan for $1.6 bn
22 Nov 2014
Blackstone will acquire GE Capital Real Estate’s 200 residential properties, with more than 10,000 rental units, primarily in the major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, in Japan’s largest property deal this year
Canary Wharf majority owner Songbird rejects QIA - Brookfield’s £2.18 bn bid
07 Nov 2014
Songbird Estates Plc, majority owner of London’s prestigious Canary Wharf estate, today rejected a proposed takeover bid by Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners for undervaluing the company
Qatar Investment Authority seeks control of Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates
07 Nov 2014
The Qatar Investment Authority is already one of London’s biggest landmark property owners, holding stakes in London’s tallest building The Shard, Chelsea Barracks, luxury department store Harrods earlier owned by Mohamed al-Fayed, and the Olympic Village in Stratford East London
One World Trade Center comes alive 13 years after 9/11
04 Nov 2014
Condé Nast, the anchor tenant and its 175 employees were the first to move into the 1,776-foot skyscraper that is yet to open access to its breathtaking 102nd-floor observation deck
Sahara spends Rs31 lakh on Roy’s failed 5-star Tihar negotiations
01 Nov 2014
The Sahara group paid Rs31lakh on its chairman Subrata Roy’s stay in an air-conditioned conference room with services such as telephone, internet and video conferencing facility in Delhi’s Tihar Jail
Sebi bars DLF and its 6 directors from markets for 3 years
13 Oct 2014
Sebi passed the order in the share transfer of Sudipti, Shalika and Felicite through sham transactions involving DLF and its six directors, including KP Singh, designed to camouflage association of DLF with the three units
Real estate transactions go online
15 Sep 2014
In the last couple of years, real estate sector has seen the emergence of websites as a low-cost tool to connect buyers and sellers. By Advitiya Sharma, co-founder and marketing head, housing.com
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation