Homegrown housing brokerage firm Anarock is entering the commercial real estate consultancy business to sell office properties and will invest Rs 100 crore as well as hire 500 employees by the middle of the next year for the business, a top company official said on Tuesday. Anarock, which was formed in April 2017 by Anuj Puri after serving global property consultant JLL, will not lease office spaces, a segment dominated by international property consultants (IPCs) like JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Knight Frank, Colliers and Savills. "We are entering into commercial real estate and will focus on strata sale of office assets. This market is very vibrant. We have formed a separate vertical Anarock Commercial with 100 staffs for this new venture," Anarock Chairman Anuj Puri told PTI. Asked about investment, he said the company would infuse Rs 100 crore into this new business and hire 500 persons by June 2021. "We are starting with three cities Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), ...
Affordable homes make up 36% of the unsold housing stock, while luxury segment's shares is 14%
Across seven major cities, sales rose by 5 per cent to 2,61,370 units in 2019 compared to 2,48,310 units in the previous year
A recent report by ANAROCK suggests as many as 16,100 new units have been launched in the luxury segment priced over Rs 1.5 crore across the top seven cities in India in the first half of CY19
According to the Anarock report, these nine players together achieved a sales bookings of Rs 22,800 crore in the entire 2018-19
Surprisingly, NCR one of the worst-hit residential markets in recent years - has seen the least decline of merely 6 per cent
ANAROCK'S top 10 rankings are based on the average prices of all new luxury units launched between 2013 and the first half of 2019 (H1-2019)
The reasons it gives include rocketing prices and a demand-supply mismatch