Ravi Seelam

Liases Foras

Founded in 1998, Liases Foras is a highly regarded non-broking real estate research firm offering data and advisory services. We have a vast repository of the most organised and structured data on real estate and property trends in India, updated on a quarterly basis by primary market survey. Liases Foras monitors over 20,000 live project spanning across 65 plus cities in India. With a team of MBAs, urban planners, architects, chartered accountants and statisticians, Liases Foras' forte lies in the field of valuation, risk assessment, future forecasting and price behaviour, best use studies, valuations and feasibility studies. The company's clientele includes leading mortgage companies such as HDFC Ltd, Axis Bank, among others, real estate funds, developers, government bodies and leading international research organisations. It has been a research partner for the CNBC Awaaz Real Estate Awards from 2012. Its latest work in decoding the science of price of a property is aimed at bringing transparency to this area. The theory deliberates that any urban centre maintains a specific price setting at any point of time. The integration of four fundamental factors - Distance, Density, Surroundings and Product - determine the price of property at any given time. Besides this, Liases Foras has earlier also developed the "Magnet Theory", a future forecasting model of locality development and price behaviours, as well as India's first real estate sensitivity index – Ressex. LIASES FORAS has, in 2015, forged a strategic partnership with the comprehensively diversified DMG Group. The very international DMG operates in 40 countries and its revenue in 2014 was over USD 3 billion. This group operates in multiple spaces – from Media and Energy to Land & Property and Education as well, catering to both business and consumer audiences. Dmg::information handles over 95% of the United Kingdom's valuation work flow for lenders and much more in the realty sector.