Updated Feb 24, 2021 | 06:07 IST
Grade A officers are most premium in the segment and are valued based on their location and facilities. The segment has attracted equity investments of $15.4 billion in the last decade Commercial real estate weathered Covid-19 well. Is it good time to invest? | Photo Credit: Thinkstock
Investing in real estate is a serious business owing to big-ticket nature of investments involved. Old school Indian investors still consider real estate investments at par with physical gold owing to the perceived tangible nature of these two assets.
However, the residential real sector has created a lot of wealth for investors especially post 1991 reforms but has been in troubled waters for the past few years.
Foreign fund-raising activity by Indian entities has begun on a strong note with bank and financial institutions mopping up $2 billion in the first week of the new year. Many Indian corporate houses are in advanced stages of resource mobilisation, which may take the fund-raise tally to $5 billion in by early February, investments bankers said. Fund-raising volumes across the globe, especially through dollar bonds, was the highest ever in 2020, and the first three sessions of 2021 witnessed about $50 billion in fund-raising. In India, Export Import Bank of India raised $1 billion, State Bank of India garnered $600 million, and Shriram Transport about $500 million. This was done without conducting roadshows.