Real Estate is Indian Entrepreneurs’ No.1 Choice of Investment! Why?

By Dr Atul Goel,
MD, Goel Ganga Group
Pune, 10th February 2025: As we stare down the barrel of a new year, we have the annual opportunity to look back at the world and try to make sense of the year that has just passed. Today, I want to speak about the world of Indian and global entrepreneurs and their investment habits. As data shows, these habits have everything to do with real estate!

HSBC recently released their HSBC Global Entrepreneurial Wealth Report 2024. They focused on multiple aspects of business in this, but most importantly they performed in-depth analyses of how entrepreneurs from all corners of the earth invest their money.

This report, which surveyed business owners or entrepreneurs – from across the world, mind you -allocate their wealth to investment, and real estate forms a significant part of it! That is to say, they use real estate to generate a stream of income – mostly through renting or leasing out their properties. This data shows that throughout our world, entrepreneurs invest in real estate! That same HSBC report goes on to state that Indian entrepreneurs have some of the highest rates of investment in real estate. 61% of Indian business owners and entrepreneurs, for instance, own real estate for investment purposes.

To those of us who are watching the Indian real estate sector, this should not come as a surprise. 2024 has been a year of meteoric growth for Indian real estate; private investment alone grew by 20% this year.

Between 2023 and 2024, Indian real estate developers are estimated to have built nearly 5 million homes. In 9 Indian metropolises, over 90 million square feet of office space was leased. In the coming year, that space could increase by at least 15 million square feet.

Just like India’s GDP, our business owners aim to grow and make money. Therefore, I contend that the study of entrepreneurs is vital to understanding our modern economy. So, if we were to listen to Indian entrepreneurs, what are they saying?

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