BY Pooja Sarkar; VCCircle
Has recorded drop in sales in
sequential basis, but up 26 per cent year on year at 0.84 million square feet.
Bangalore
based realty company Sobha Developers has seen growth in its first quarter
operational numbers as compared to last year. For the quarter ended June 30, it
managed to sell 0.84 million sq.ft of new space, which is valued at $87million
(Rs 4,79 crore), with an average realisation rate of Rs 5,737 per square feet.
Though year-on-year there is a growth in sales realisation of 26 percent,
sequentially there is a decline. In Q4FY12, the realtor had sold 0.863 million
square feet.
In
the same period last year, Sobha had managed to sell 0.67 million square feet,
for an average price realisation of Rs 4,547 per square feet.
The
company has also given a new sales guidance for the year of $363 million (Rs
2,000 crore) for this fiscal for the period last year the developer managed
sales of $309 million (Rs 1,700 crore). In the last quarter the developer
managed to launch a new villa project called Sobha West Hill in Coimbatore with
a total saleable area of 0.14 million square feet.
At
present it is accruing money from projects across Bangalore, NCR, Chennai,
Pune, Thrissur, Coimbatore and Mysore.
Kejal
Mehta and Dhrushil Jhaveri real estate analyst from Prabhudas Liladher wrote in
their report to their client “on account of strong launches and monetization of
old sales, coupled with a steady execution, the company has brought its net
debt down from $220 million (Rs1,210 crore) in FY11 to $207 million (Rs 1,140
crore ) in FY12. We further expect net debt to reduce to $161 million (Rs 890
crore) in FY13, resulting in a DER of 0.56, down from 0.67 in FY11.”
Sales
from its Gurgaon project witnessed a strong sequential increase of 24 per cent.
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