Dr Prashant Thakur In 2025, Dubai recorded $250 billion in real estate transactions, the highest in its history. Dubai offers some of the highest rental yields globally, generally ranging between 6 and 9 per cent. Indians are the largest foreign investor group, accounting for 20–22 per cent of all foreign property purchases. Residential property prices […]Read More
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Anil Pharande The recent news stories about the Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) have been nothing short of extraordinary. People get anxious when the Supreme Court says that a regulator has turned into a ‘rehabilitation center’ for retiring officials. But for me, this uproar not as a sign of failure but as a crucial turning […]Read More
Anuj Puri Union Budget 2026-27 focused on sustained economic growth, infrastructure development, MSMEs, tourism, high-speed rail corridors, and manufacturing. From a real estate perspective, it has delivered limited direct but various indirect benefits – acting more as a growth catalyst than an instant rescue cavalry. One major disappointment for the real estate sector was that […]Read More
Anil Pharande The elections for the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal (PCMC) governments that are happening right now are not just about politics in those cities. They’re about the infrastructure, the cost of housing, and the future liveability of two cities that have become magnets for millions of Indians looking for jobs, homes, and a better […]Read More
Anuj Puri India is at a perplexing point in its housing history. While headlines trump up record sales of luxury homes and rising real estate prices, a much darker story is unfolding behind the scenes. We are now looking at very real possibility of a two-tiered housing market that makes owning impossible for millions of […]Read More
Akash Pharande The Pune residential real estate market in 2025 was a mixed story – below the city’s strong fundamentals was a lot of stress. The city went from a period of rapid growth to a more stable, selective market, with affordability and changing buyer demographics becoming more defining characteristics in the year. The Highs: […]Read More
Team L&M Hardening property prices, layoffs in the IT sector, geopolitical tensions and other uncertainties dented India’s residential growth momentum in 2025. ANAROCK Research data indicates that housing sales in the top 7 cities witnessed a 14% decline in 2025, with approx. 3,95,625 units sold in the year against 4,59,645 units in 2024. However, the overall […]Read More
Team L&M Despite notable headwinds, including IT layoffs and tariff tensions, the Indian office market in India’s top seven cities is on a roll. Latest ANAROCK Research data reveals that net office absorption in these cities is at all-time high of approx. 55.16 Mn sq. ft. in 2025 – a 10per cent yearly rise against […]Read More
Team L&M As malls in Western countries brace for an existential crisis, global capital is pivoting toward a market that seems to defy every global retail trend – India. While the US has witnessed a net closure of nearly 1,200 mall stores since 2020 (with rising vacancies forcing almost 40 per cent of empty malls […]Read More
Team L&M Amid Tamil Nadu’s vision toward becoming a one trillion dollar economy by 2030, the state is penning an ambitious new chapter into its growth story. The state leverages its uniquely balanced partnership between its industrial base and expanding services economy – drawing increasing global and domestic investments. To this end, Tamil Nadu is […]Read More