Triple Bottom Line Urban Enterprise
by Lenora
January 14, 2017 in India, Mumbai
Recent years were tough on India’s residential real estate industry – slow growth, stalled demand and a mismatch between the pricing of inventory and the price point that Indian households find affordable. Thousands of vacant units of inventory remain unsold. While the slump was lifting last year, demonetization has again presented a challenge for the…read more
by Lenora
October 10, 2015 in Colombia, Global, India, Latin America, Mexico, Mumbai
The compulsion to re-everything cities runs through the popular discussion of the world’s newly emerging and exploding cities. Re-think, re-imagine and re-shape. Rehabilitation. Regeneration. Renaissance. These loaded words often embrace conflicting visions of the end goal, the plan for getting there and who benefits. Smart cities concepts mostly push infrastructure, basically “hardware” solutions, with limited…read more
by Daniel Rozas
January 7, 2013 in India, Mumbai, South Asia
At the outskirts of Mumbai after a nearly two hour train ride, passengers disembark at a small, bustling community, easily covered on foot. Despite the buzz of commerce around the station, one already spies farmland beyond the last rows of houses within a few city blocks. Even if residents of all stripes live here, the…read more
by Daniel Rozas
December 8, 2012 in Bangalore, India, Mumbai, Pune
Changes are afoot in the low cost housing market in India. Over the last two years, dozens of commercially-built projects targeted at the lower middle class have been going up in cities across the country. In the past six months, many of these projects have begun opening their doors to the new residents we visited…read more
by Lenora
September 10, 2012 in Bangalore, India, Mumbai, South Asia
While the affordable housing movement in India seemed on the cusp of exploding in 2008 with high profile reports, launches and new market entrants, the landscape four years on is battle-scarred with the reality of India’s tough real estate environment – layers of government inefficiency, weak complementary infrastructure investments, rising land, input and labor prices,…read more
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