NRI (Non-Resident Indian) investments in Indian real estate are witnessing unprecedented growth, driven by economic, emotional, and regulatory factors. Ghar shares a mini-guide as to why NRIs are increasingly investing in Indian properties and how you can leverage this massive market opportunity.

Ghar.tv identifies key opportunities to strategically target NRI investments.

Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation Group has made a major move in Mumbai’s real estate market by acquiring a nearly 2-acre prime land parcel in Worli from the Wadia Group’s Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company for ₹440 crore. This deal further solidifies Sumitomo’s presence Indian real estate.

The Indian warehouse leasing market grew 8% in H1 2024. With Mumbai and Pune leading absorption rates, the industry has grown and faced hurdles. Ghar.tv offers 6 tips for understanding 2024 Indian warehouse leasing trends:

Arnya Real Estate Fund Advisors, an alternative investment management business, will launch its first real estate debt fund to invest in India's top eight property markets, raising around ₹1,000 crore. The Arnya Real Estate Fund—Debt offers a ₹1,000 crore green-shoe option.

In 2024, Mumbai sold 21 of 25 ultra-luxury properties in India's top 25 cities. HNIs and ultra-HNIs drove demand for mansions exceeding Rs 40 crore, worth Rs 2,443 crore. Mumbai, Hyderabad, Gurugram, and Bengaluru became luxury property hotspots as transactions increased.

IBM renewed its lease for 830,000 square feet of Embassy Golf Links Business Park office space in Bengaluru. The ₹143 crore yearly leasing contract is one of the biggest in the commercial office space category this year. According to insiders, this initiative would strengthen the US technology giant

Flexible workspace provider Smartworks has expanded internationally by leasing 35,000 square feet of office space in Singapore. Smartworks is one of the first Indian flexible workspace companies to operate abroad.

Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions India has leased a three-story commercial tower in Hinjewadi, Pune, for over five years. In the Embassy Tech Zone of the Rajiv Gandhi InfoTech Park in the second phase of Hinjewadi development, this new office occupies over 123,000 sq ft in the Hudson Block.

SEBI-registered alternative investment fund (AIF) Triveda Capital has raised 80 crore in its first close, aiming to raise 250 crore. Ranjan Pai, chairman of Manipal Education and Medical Group, led the investment, a milestone for the new fund.

Indian real estate investors are increasingly targeting developing cities. Real estate hotspots are coming to these cities due to urbanisation, infrastructural expansion, and changing work paradigms. Ghar explains why these cities will change Indian real estate in detail.

KSH Infra, a leading developer of storage and logistics parks, would spend ₹450 crore in a 50-acre industrial and logistics park in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. This is KSH Infra's strategic southern Indian market entrance.

India's real estate investment trust (REIT) market grew 31% in 2023, the most in Asia-Pacific, despite a 7% fall overall the $252 billion Asian REIT industry. This increase bodes well for investors in India's young but growing REIT industry.

Many middle-class Indians are losing their goal of home ownership as property prices rise, making affordable homes scarce. With the average property costing ₹1.2 crore to ₹1.4 crore, homeownership is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve.

First Bank Leases Goregaon Premium Office Space Mumbai: IDFC First Bank has leased an office space at Göegaon's Oberoi Commerz III tower spread across 4 floors. Under the five-year leasing arrangement, the bank would pay ₹170 crore in rent.