India’s commercial real estate sector witnessed remarkable momentum in 2024, driven by record-breaking corporate leasing and high-value office space deals. From bustling metros to emerging business hubs, these transactions reflect the growing demand for premium workspaces.

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

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.

Office space leasing in India's top six cities rose 19% to 29.4 million square feet in the first half of 2024. Mumbai and Hyderabad quadrupled office space absorption, with Bengaluru leading at 8.8 million sq ft.

According to a report by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Knight Frank, Global Capability Centres (GCCs), flexible and co-working spaces, and the IT sector will drive office space demand in India to 1.7 billion square feet by 2030.

PropShare, India's biggest commercial real estate digital platform, aims to grow its Asset Under Management (AUM) to over Rs 1,000 crore in storage assets. The warehouse market's current growth, reminiscent of the early 2000s office space bubble, prompts the business to buy assets across India.

Bank of America (BofA) has acquired 1.1 million square feet of Chennai office space in a major move. This sale is BofA's biggest office space transaction of 2023 and one of its largest captive centres outside the US. The DLF Downtown, Taramani site is for the bank's Indian back office.

Despite global economic uncertainty, the Indian office space market is expected to grow significantly between 2023 and 2025. According to CBRE, developers are confident about adding over 165 million sq. ft. of office space by 2025, exceeding the 142 million constructed in the preceding three years.

A CBRE-CII research, ‘Indian Real Estate: Taking Giant Strides – 2023 Mid-Year Outlook,’ was released during the CII Realty 2023 conference. It highlights the sector's tremendous progress.

IT services company Persistent Systems has rented almost 2000 seats from Smartworks, a supplier of flexible office spaces as per news from the Indian co-working sector.

Sandeep Mathrani, an Indian-American real estate sector veteran, was promoted to chief executive officer after the co-working startup's botched IPO bid almost three years ago.