The office property markets have continued to post growth over the past few years. However, the last few quarters have witnessed a polarisation of office markets in terms of growth in demand across the country, according to a recent report by Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj.
The office markets across six cities including Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, can be categorised into three broad segments. The first segment includes markets which are likely to be susceptible in terms of retarded demand growth for the remaining half year of 2008.
The second segment includes micro markets which are strong in terms of maintaining demand growth for the next two quarters.
More : economictimes.indiatimes.com
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