Mangal Prabhat Lodha is richest Indian property tycoon with $3.8 billion wealth
Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the founder of Lodha Group and a lawmaker representing the ruling BJP, has become India’s richest real estate developer after the company’s sales increased 22%.
Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the founder of Lodha Group and a lawmaker representing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has become the nation’s richest real estate developer after the company’s sales increased 22 per cent.
Lodha’s wealth is estimated at 271.5 billion rupees ($3.8 billion), according to the GROHE Hurun India Real Estate Rich List. Lodha, who started the real estate business three decades ago in Mumbai, is constructing the 75-storey Trump Tower in India’s commercial capital.
The total wealth of the top 100 Indians in the nation’s real estate sector grew 27 per cent from a year ago to 2.36 trillion rupees, according to the Hurun list, as large property developers took advantage of a slowdown in the industry to acquire smaller rivals.
Jitendra Virwani of Embassy Group, which is poised to sell India’s first real estate investment trust, is the second richest.
Developers at the bottom of the pyramid are definitely affected by the slowdown in the real estate sector, but the top developers are relatively resilient as they are organised and have strong execution, Vineeth Chandrababu, associate vice-president, research, at Hurun Report India said.
