My Blogs

For most of my career, I would have told you, without much hesitation, that the best use of my time was time spent working. There was always a deal to think about, a market to track, a decision that needed sharper thinking. Anything outside of that felt, if I am honest, a little indulgent. I do not think that way anymore, and I suspect a lot of people in demanding careers go through a similar evolution, even if they arrive at it from different directions. What changed for me

Twenty-five years is long enough that I sometimes have to pause and do the arithmetic to believe it myself. When I started out in real estate, the industry looked nothing like it does today – not in scale, not in sophistication, and certainly not in the way capital moved through it. And yet, as I reflect on the journey, what strikes me as much as the change is how much has stayed exactly the same. I think that tension between transformation and continuity is worth examining h

I was recently part of a panel discussion on the evolving REIT landscape in India, and I kept thinking of the confluence of regulatory change, new market entrants, and asset-level realities that is creating a moment of genuine reckoning for this asset class. Indian REITs have indeed come a long way. Market capitalisation has crossed Rs 1 lakh crore, distributions have been consistent, and investor confidence has held through a challenging rate cycle. That is a credible track

I recently read the EY-Parthenon and CREDAI report on Generative AI in Indian Real Estate, released in June. It is a well-researched piece of work, and I found myself pausing on several findings, not because they were surprising, but because they put precise numbers to something many of us in the industry have been sensing for a while. The central argument is one I agree with: GenAI is no longer a concept to be evaluated at some future point. It is already beginning to separa

A few months ago, I found myself in two very different conversations about artificial intelligence within the same week. In the first, a young colleague spoke about AI with the kind of enthusiasm I associate with genuinely transformative technology – how it had changed the way she researched, wrote, and even thought through problems. In the second, a close friend, someone not in technology at all, spoke about AI with real unease – about jobs, about misinformation, about a wor

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

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

Every year, as board exam results roll in, I find myself both amazed and curious. Today, it’s not unusual to see students scoring 95%,...

Every time I speak to people in the real estate ecosystem – developers, investors, or even homebuyers; the same theme comes up: how much...

Every few years, a new wave of technology promises to “transform everything.” But generative AI feels different; not because of what it...

Since the last few years, everyone seems to be talking about green buildings. Initially, it felt like an abstract concept, a nice-to-have...

Haven’t we experienced this before when we were working on a crucial deal or trying to crack a new client that could redefine our...

The establishment of BharatTradeNet (BTN) and the government's commitment to modernizing infrastructure to support exports are creating...

I had the privilege of participating in a roundtable hosted by Private Equity Real Estate, where we discussed the robust growth prospects...

We read countless articles, attend leadership seminars, and listen to experts talk about what makes a great leader. Yet, when it comes to...

We travel to so many different countries and there are always some key takeaways from each of them that stay with us for a long time. A...

Lately, I’ve come across several articles talking about the challenges around warehousing, zoning, and how we are using land—especially...

Haven’t we imagined a city where the skyline blends seamlessly, where boundary walls are replaced by open greens, and where art,...

The world is changing very fast and so is the logistics and warehousing sector, which was valued at USD 13.5 trillion in 2023 and is...

Being in the real estate sector for over two decades, I have seen several highs and lows; however, right now these are very interesting...