Curriculum How India's Real Estate Developers Work
How India's Real Estate Developers Work
Inside the business of building homes and offices: land acquisition, approvals, pre-sales funding, construction finance, joint development agreements, pricing and launches, luxury and affordable segments, commercial offices, township projects, consolidation and listed developers, and a recap.
- The Developer Business Model How Indian real estate developers make money by buying land, getting approvals, building and selling units, and why the business is capital-hungry and risky. 📄 Read-aloud
- Land: The Developer's Biggest Bet Why land is the biggest cost and risk for developers, the problems of unclear titles and land banks, and how land prices shape home prices. 📄 Read-aloud
- Approvals and Red Tape How developers need dozens of approvals for a project, how delays add costs, and efforts to create single-window clearances. 📄 Read-aloud
- Pre-Sales: Funding With Buyers' Money How developers sell flats before they're built to fund construction, why this helped cause stalled projects, and how RERA's escrow rules changed it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Construction Finance and NBFCs How developers borrow from banks, NBFCs and private funds, how the IL&FS crisis in 2018 cut off lending, and the rise of private equity and SWAMIH funds. 📄 Read-aloud
- Joint Development Agreements How landowners and developers share projects through joint development agreements, why this reduces upfront land costs, and the tax and trust issues involved. 📄 Read-aloud
- How India's Real Estate Developers Work: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on the business model, land, approvals, pre-sales and finance. 5 questions
- Launch Pricing and Sales Tactics How developers price projects at launch, use schemes like subvention plans and freebies, and why official prices rarely fall even in slow markets. 📄 Read-aloud
- Luxury Versus Affordable Housing Why developers have shifted toward luxury homes after 2020, why affordable housing margins are thin, and what this means for housing access. 📄 Read-aloud
- Commercial Offices and Leasing How developers build office parks to lease to IT firms and global capability centres, earning steady rent, and how REITs let them recycle capital. 📄 Read-aloud
- Townships and Integrated Projects How large townships like Lavasa, Magarpatta and Gurugram's private colonies were built by developers, and the successes and failures of private city-building. 📄 Read-aloud
- Consolidation and Listed Developers How RERA, demonetisation, GST and the credit crunch pushed smaller developers out and helped large listed firms like Godrej Properties, DLF and Lodha gain share. 📄 Read-aloud
- Real Estate Developers: Recap How the developer business works, from land to handover, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud