August 16, 2019 - South India beats north in the real estate game: Herere the details

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We request you to accept our promotional emails.     Construction South India beats north in the real estate game: Herere the details For the past 15 years, first the booming IT sector and then the burgeoning ecommerce industry in the south helped in generating a steady stream of end-users Construction Rs 1.56 lakh cr worth flats launched in 2011 and before still incomplete; NCR builders top drag Out of the nearly 2.2 lakh units, JLL said in a report that "about 30,000 units are confirmed to be scrapped". 6 More Construction Stories Marketing Clients are looking to work with fewer partners: Tarun Rai, Chairman and Group CEO, South Asia, Wunderman Thompson With the merger we had set out to create a new agency breed — a creative, data and technology agency that can offer genuine end-to-end solutions to our clients. 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