Property Investments by PE Companies Up 69% in 2011

According to Chennai based Venture Intelligence, a research company, India’s property investments by PE (Private Equity) Companies rise 69% in 2011

Private equity made $ 268 crore of real estate investments through 53 transactions in India. In 2010, they spent $158 crore on 55 investments.

Highlights of Venture Intelligence study..!

# Indian developers are chasing private equity funds because of a liquidity squeeze after sales dried up, and banks and finance companies cut funding.

# Private equity deals are getting transacted at internal rates of returns, or the yield of the investment, of 25% to 30%.

# The largest investment last year was Jeff Morgan Capital’s $ 32 crore in Compact Disc India’s (CDI) film city project.

# Other major deals included Warburg Pincus LLC’s $27 crore investment in a residential joint venture with Lemon Tree Hotels and Blackstone Group LP’s $ 20 crore investment in Bangalore’s Manyata Embassy Business Park.

# Housing projects accounted for 57% of the transactions, while commercial projects made up 19%. the  showed.

# A total of 69 private equity investments were made in India’s real-estate market in 2011, of which 53 were announced. In the previous year, 55 of the 63 deals were publicly disclosed.

# Buyout firms made 19 exits last year. A total of 14 were announced with a combined value of $ 60. 30 Crore with 8 in 2010..

# HDFC Property Ventures., which accounted for 5 of the exits, sold its stake in the Embassy Property Developments Ltd.’s IT (Information Technology) park in Bangalore in south India back to the developer for Rs. 490 crore in a deal funded by Blackstone.

# HDFC also divested its two-year-old investment in Nitesh Estates Ltd.’s (NITE) Bangalore mall project back to the developer for Rs. 450 Crore.

# Kotak Realty Fund realized $ 8.6 Crore from its stake sale in Peepul Tree Properties Pvt., a commercial information technology park in Mumbai, to Tata Realty Initiatives Fund.

About Venture Intelligence..!
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