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It was a pleasure to be part of CREDAI NATCON 2026 in Kolkata and participate in an engaging discussion on “The IPO Question: What Does It Mean for Developers?” with Varun Gupta (Ashiana Housing), Deepak Goradia (Dosti Realty), Abhimanyu Bhattacharya (Khaitan & Co.), and Pinak Rudra Bhattacharyya (IIFL Capital). The session brought together perspectives from across the real estate and capital markets ecosystem, making for an insightful conversation on the opportunities, consi

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

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