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Shankar: Indian Real Estate Expansion Is Capped at Six or Seven Cities
“We look at real estate as a very regional game because I feel like the further away you move away from home base, more leakages, harder to sort of monitor, harder to sort of oversee. And also each state in India is like a different country. The rules are diffe…”
Shankar: India Urban Population to Reach 600M by 2030 Amid Supply Deficit
“Right now, urban cities are at 35% urbanized. Like, 35% of the population lives in urban cities, which is about four hundred and eighty million people. This is expected to go up to 40% by some 20, 30 or so, which is 600, which is, sorry, yeah, about six hundre…”
Shankar: A property developer's primary function is project management
“I feel like the role of a builder is to be like a project manager. So we're just managing everything, but we subcontracting the laborers while we have architects to oversee the whole design development, you're outsourcing the actual drawings, et cetera, to oth…”
Shankar: Escalating land prices make affordable housing development unviable
“With the way land prices are going, it's really hard to do affordable housing.”
Shankar: Brigade Towers land delivered a 250x to 300x return
“When we started Brigade Towers on Brigade Road, it was 200 rupees a square foot. Today, that same area could be 55,000 rupees a square foot or even, you know, 60,000 rupees a square foot. And that's like a 250 to three, 300 X jump. You know, and if you look at…”