Analysts expect Indian real estate growth to slow in FY27, but see opportunities in Lodha, Sobha, Mahindra Lifespace, DLF and Prestige Estates amid healthy demand for project launches
Realty firm Lodha Developers Ltd aims for a 2.5 times jump in its annual net profit to over Rs 8,500 crore by the 2030-31 fiscal year as it remains bullish on demand for homes and commercial properties. In a conference call with analysts, Lodha Developers MD and CEO Abhishek Lodha highlighted the company's strong growth since listing on stock exchanges in April 2021. "In fiscal '21, which was the peak of COVID, we did Rs 60 billion of pre-sales. In FY26, we did Rs 205 billion, a 28 per cent CAGR (compounded annual growth rate)," Abhishek said. More importantly, he added, the PAT (profit after tax) has grown more than 6 times over the same period, touching Rs 3,430 crore this year with a 20 per cent margin. "Over the medium term, our goal is focused on 20 per cent CAGR in PAT and therefore, moving from about Rs 34 billion for fiscal '26 to more than Rs 85 billion by fiscal '31," said Abhishek, according to a transcript uploaded on stock exchanges. "The building blocks are all in pl
In FY26, the company's revenue grew by 21.02 per cent to Rs 16,676.2 crore, while its profit increased by 24.01 per cent to Rs 3,428.2 crore, driven by pre-sales
Sobha, Godrej Properties, Phoenix, Anant Raj, Lodha Developers, Oberoi Realty and Aditya Birla Real Estate were up between 3 per cent and 4 per cent on the NSE in Tuesday's intra-day trade.
Bank, realty, auto and financial services stocks surged up to 10 per cent after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained status quo
The company expects to reduce business development investments over the next 24 months and increase free cash flow
Realty firm Lodha Developers on Tuesday reported a 23 per cent increase in pre-sales to Rs 5,890 crore during the last quarter, but failed to meet the annual target because of West Asia conflict. The pre-sales or sales bookings stood at Rs 4,810 crore in the year-ago period. During the full 2025-26 fiscal, the company's sales bookings rose 16 per cent to Rs 20,530 crore from Rs 17,630 crore in the preceding year. In a regulatory filing, the company shared the operational update of the January-March quarter of 2025-26 fiscal. "We achieved our best ever quarterly pre-sales of Rs 58.9 billion in Q4, FY26 (+23 per cent year-on-year)," Lodha said. "Our pre- sales for the full year stood at Rs 205.3 billion in FY26 (+16% YoY growth), March saw select deferral of sales due to the Iran war leading to pre-sales being Rs 4.7 billion below guidance," the company pointed out. Lodha Developers had set a target of achieving Rs 21,000 crore worth pre-sales during the 2025-26 fiscal. Lodha ..
The Nifty Realty index tanked over 34 points or 4.8 per cent to the day's low at 662.85
Sobha, Anant Raj, Prestige Estates Projects, Oberoi Realty, Signature Global and Lodha Developers were down in the range of 4 per cent to 6 per cent on the NSE in intra-day trade on Monday.
According to Nomura, the latest trends indicate that India's real estate sector is in a mature phase rather than entering a slowdown
In the past one month, the realty index has tanked 10 per cent, as against 6 per cent fall in the BSE Sensex.