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Ascendas, Arcapita Floats Real Estate Fund

Add comment   |   June 14, 2007    10:47am   |Contributed by Indian Realty News

Leading business space provider, Asccendas, has floated an India specific fund Ascendas India Development Trust (AIDT). The fund has been started in an association with Arcpaita of Bahrain and Dutch company ING Pvt. Banking with a capital base of Singapore $500 million.

The fund will make investments in real estate projects in India, including complimentary land for both commercial and residential use. Ascendas will exclusively integrate business space within these projects. The move is likely to give a fillip to the already flourishing real estate funds business.

Add to that, the company will also keep participating in residential, commercial, hospitality sector, Indian retail sector, recreation, and other supporting uses on its own or in alliance with other parties. However, the main focus will remain on developing integrated properties in India.

The fund envisages creating synergistic values from the complimentary land uses within the projects if put in comparison to the development of those uses separately.  The fund has been launched at the apt time when Indian real estate market is making rapid strides and expanding.  There is a strong demand for commercial property in India as the country is gradually developing into a global IT outsourcing powerhouse.

AIDT has identified several prospective investment proposals. The fund will invest in International Tech Parks in Pune and Nagpur.

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