Wharton School and PropEquity announce first of its kind collaboration for Indian Realty Research

New Delhi, November 26, 2018:PropEquity, India’s largest real estate data, analytics and research firm and Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA have announced a knowledge partnership that focuses on the Indian real estate research. The school is widely regarded as one of the world’s top institutions for business education and U.S. News and World Report has repeatedly ranked Wharton’s real estate MBA program as the top in the United States.

Through the collaboration the team at Wharton and Propequity together aim to work on data, research and market intelligence forthe Indian real estate sector. A fundamental goal of the partnership will be to use the intelligence to study a variety of important topics such as price movements of residential projects along with their construction journey, impact of delays on demand & supply in micro markets, and the impact of recent reforms such as GST and RERA on supply, absorption & pricing.

“We are thrilled that Propequity will be our partner in understanding the evolution of the Indian residential real estate market. We are excited that through this partnership we will derive broader lessons about the growth of housing in emerging markets over the coming decade”said Mr. Santosh Anagol, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton.

“We at Propequity are very excited about this partnership as it will provide unprecedented and insightful research of the Indian real estate environment and accurately predict future trends in the sector. We believe that our collaboration and shared focus with the most respected University validates and strengthens our commitment towards understanding and bringing transparency to the Indian Real estate market,” Mr. Samir Jasuja, founder and MD at PropEquity said.

“This brings us one step closer to our IPO plans and is in line with our business expansion strategy to partner with real estate expertise from across the world through strategic alliances and joint ventures,” he added

This will be the first time that Wharton would be using data and analytics from an Indian firm to better understand, analyse and forecast trends in the Indian real estate sector.

“We are eager to learn from and contribute to the statistical analysis that will be done using PropEquity data and analytics. Propequity’s extensive data and advanced analytics offer significantly larger possibilities to derive inferences which are common to research studies abroad but rare in India,” Mr. Anagol added.

Headquartered in Gurgaon, PropEquity currently focuses on Residential and commercial Data and Analytics and caters to over 150 of the largest Financial Institutions, Banks, Private Equity Funds and Developers.

For the first time in India, the company’s new and existing verticals will soon be incorporating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools including Facial Intelligence in Retail and Commercial Buildings.

PropEquity has also developed India’s most comprehensive real estate index. It has partnered with MCX to launch a tradable price index. It has also built in building India’s housing start up index with RBI and Ministry of Housing.