| The real estate market in India is getting hotter | | | | These are not just one-off reports that are |
| not only from within but also from outside. If the | | | | making headlines in the Indian real estate business. |
| local investors are leveraging the higher trend of | | | | Rather, such investments are becoming a routine |
| real estate rates from within, it is pressure from | | | | in the highly rated real estate boom in India. The |
| the Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and global market | | | | NRI investment in India is constantly on the |
| players that are determining the future of the real | | | | upswing thanks to the liberal investment policies |
| estate boom in India. | | | | of Indian governments at the Centre and the |
| Malini Alles, a Silicon Valley billionaire and social | | | | States. |
| activist has launched Maia Fund, a real estate | | | | The technology boom is largely considered as a |
| $150m fund with a greenshoe option of another | | | | major contributing factor in the present boom in |
| $100m to invest in the Indian property market. | | | | the Indian real estate sector. The tier I cities like |
| She also proposes to chip in $10m into the fund. | | | | Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai have registered a |
| An entrepreneur from US, Raj Vakharia, | | | | phenomenal growth in the past decade. This |
| announced the launch of a private equity fund, | | | | boom is slowly percolating to the tier II and tier |
| which will invest $250m worth of US institutional | | | | III cities like Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Pune, |
| capital into India's booming real estate market. | | | | Hyderabad, Mysore. |