India Realty Space to See $4-5 Billion Foreign Inflows in Two Years

Davos: India's realty sector is set for robust inflows of $4-5 billion from overseas investors in the next couple of years, with Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai emerging as the favourites, global real estate consultancy giant Jones Lang LaSalle has said. 
"The early foreign investors in India, who came in around 2006-07, did not have very good experience, partly because of their inexperience in doing business in India and partly because of global financial crisis," JLL Asia Pacific CEO Alastair Hughes said.
"However, foreign investors are now looking with a renewed interest at India, given its still robust economic growth rate as that bodes well for good returns to their investments," Hughes told PTI in an interview.
Hughes, who was here to participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, said foreign fund inflows were expected to pick up in the Indian realty sector going forward. 
He added: "They (investors) are now looking much more closely at India to put in their funds into Indian real estate sector. They had come in between 2006-2007 and first half of 2008, but they completely went away in 2009 and have been mostly away since then.
"The overseas investors are now looking to come back and what they are looking for right now is good partners in India, because it is a difficult place to do real estate business because of various reasons."

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