Not deviating from the general trend of market and investment comparisons, one could simply ask as why an investor should be putting in funds in the India real estate sector?

In response to this pertinent question, following facts can be posed as the selling points of the Indian real estate sector:

• Indian real estate sector is all slated to grow at an average growth of between 25-30% in next five years --- which is one of the fastest in the world. As against this growth trajectory, the growth rates in some of the most developed markets in the world has fallen to single digit figures.
• Unlike in the developed countries, where a significant push to the real estate comes from renovation and overhauling, India is witnessing its first real boom in the real estate sector since independence and in the modern era which is supported by a burgeoning economy on a sustainable basis. So things are being created on a scratch from here.
• With rise in literacy rate and new age economy businesses creating new job opportunities, the middle class brigade of India is only mushrooming which is now well exposed to global trends and, therefore, has similar aspirations in terms of lifestyle. This strong over 400 million group, therefore, is well poised to support the mammoth opportunities in the real estate sector.
• India has a well-defined regulatory and financing regime in place.

Last but not the least, real estate property in India in both residential as well as commercial segments, are fast turning into gold mines with phenomenal price escalation ( more than 100% in several places) in last couple of years.