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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: Plotted land development yields the highest returns for new entrepreneurs
“I'll tell you, highest return is, if you ask me, you take that 10 crores, invest in land, do some plotted development, develop it yourself and sell it. I think you'll get the highest return.”
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: 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…”