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It was a pleasure to be part of GRI Funding Opportunities 2026 and discussing the Valuation Gap and Yield Reality - Defining the challenge for Indian REITs along with my co-panelists - Gaurav Puri, Chief Investment Officer, NCW Asset Management Mahaveer Jain, Director, India Ratings & Research Rahul Parikh, Head Treasury, Embassy REIT Rajeev Thakkar, Chief Investment Officer & Director, PPFAS Mutual Fund Ramesh Nair, MD & CEO, Mindspace Business Parks REIT Senthil Kumar, Head

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