Office properties grab lion's share of realty's $2.31 bn PE investments

The segment accounts for 81% of PE funds flowing into the real estate sector betwen Jan 1 and Sept 30; residential segments gets 9%

Indian real estate attracted private equity investments of $2.31 billion, across 11 deals in Year to Date (YTD) 2020 (January 1–September 30). 

Of the total PE investments in real estate, the office segment attracted the largest share of $1.87 billion, claiming 81 per cent share, followed by warehousing at 10 per cent and residential with 9 per cent, according to a latest report by Knight Frank India.

In the 10 years to September 2020, Mumbai took almost a third of all PE investments in office properties ($5.02 billion out of a total $15.44 billion), in 19 deals of 78. Delhi-NCR came a distant second, mopping up $2.8 billion in 15 deals.