New Delhi [India], November 11 (ANI): Institutional investments in Mumbai’s actual property market crossed USD 1.2 billion within the first 9 months of 2025, making this the fourth consecutive yr the town has surpassed the billion-dollar mark, based on Cushman & Wakefield’s India Capital Markets Q3 2025 report.
This efficiency indicators Mumbai’s sturdy restoration and return to pre-pandemic funding ranges, reinforcing its place as India’s most tasty gateway marketplace for international and home capital.
At the nationwide stage, institutional funding inflows (throughout non-public fairness and REITs) reached USD 4.7 billion year-to-date, underscoring continued investor confidence in India’s actual property story. The sector is nicely on observe to shut the yr with round USD 6-6.5 billion, making 2025 probably the second-best yr on document for institutional investments in business actual property.
Domestic institutional participation has grown considerably over the previous few years, now accounting for 48 per cent of inflows between January and September – up from a smaller share beforehand. Foreign traders contributed the remaining 52 per cent. This structural shift has helped offset volatility in cross-border capital flows and strengthened the market’s stability. Office belongings stay the dominant selection for traders, accounting for 35 per cent of YTD inflows, adopted by residential (26 p.c), retail (12 per cent), and logistics & industrial (9 per cent).
Somy Thomas, Executive Managing Director, Capital Markets, mentioned, ‘This resilience displays sturdy fundamentals, infrastructure-led progress, and a diversified asset base that continues to draw each international and home capital. With transformative tasks just like the Trans Harbour Link and Coastal Road enhancing connectivity, investor confidence in Mumbai’s long-term progress stays strong.’
Vivek Okay Chandy, Joint Managing Partner at JSA Advocates & Solicitors mentioned, ‘Investment in the true property sector within the south additionally stays very sturdy. Bangalore builders haven’t simply moved to the rising and huge cities within the south however have began enormous developments in Mumbai and the NCR.’
‘While the fairness markets supplied enormous returns following the pandemic, during the last yr the larger returns have in all probability been from investments in actual property,’ Chandy added.
Foreign capital accounted for two-thirds (67 per cent) of Mumbai’s inflows at USD 797.7 million, led by traders from the United States (USD 500 million) and Japan (USD 297 million) — signalling sturdy confidence within the metropolis’s fundamentals at the same time as international capital flows stay selective. Domestic traders contributed the remaining USD 398 million, additional diversifying the capital base.
Institutional curiosity in Mumbai prolonged throughout asset lessons, reflecting the town’s more and more diversified actual property ecosystem. The residential phase emerged as the first recipient, attracting USD 377.6 million inflows, largely pushed by redevelopment tasks.
The workplace sector adopted intently with USD 339.71 million, benefiting from continued occupier resilience and renewed leasing exercise. The logistics and industrial phase acquired USD 269.3 million, underscoring the sector’s emergence instead institutional play.
Meanwhile, mixed-use business tasks (together with workplace, hospitality and tasks) noticed inflows of USD 155 million and information facilities attracted USD 54.6 million, highlighting the widening investor urge for food past conventional asset lessons. (ANI)