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For two decades, Indian real estate was essentially a six-city story. Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai. The rest of the country, home to over a billion people was treated as an afterthought. It was like a spillover market or a consolation prize for developers who couldn’t crack the metros. That mental model is now obsolete, and the investors who are still operating from it are going to miss one of the most significant wealth-creation opportunities in Ind

Sustainability in real estate has come a long way from being a developer's marketing talking point. Over the years, I have watched the conversation shift from "does this certification help us sell faster?" to something far more substantive on how do we build, operate, and finance assets in a way that is genuinely responsible, and increasingly, financially sound? Three themes stand out to me as the real accelerators of this shift: the adoption of renewable energy sources, mean

Over the last decade, I have had many conversations with developers, investors, and industry professionals about the role of technology in real estate. For a long time, the response was lukewarm at best. The sentiment was – yes, technology is useful, but real estate runs on relationships, on trust, on ground-level knowledge that no platform can replicate. That view is changing, and changing fast. What I find most interesting is that technology is no longer entering real estat