India Institutional Real Estate Investment Up 39% to $5.9B

Institutional investors put $5.93 billion into Indian real estate in January-September 2026, up 39% from a year earlier, according to Colliers data reported by Business Today on October 8.

Domestic capital takes the lead

• Domestic investors: $3.49 billion for the nine months, up 59% and 59% of all inflows

• Foreign investors: $2.44 billion, up 17%

The third quarter

• Total Q3 inflows: $1.42 billion, up 12% year on year

• Domestic: $926.3 million (65% of the quarter), up 21%

• Foreign: $490 million, down 3%

• Largest deal: CPP Investments (CPPIB) put $312 million into Prestige Hospitality Ventures, the hospitality platform of Prestige Estates Projects

• Other major deals: Brookfield India REIT and Prime Offices Fund invested $178.2 million in Mumbai office assets, and Kotak Realty Fund put $83.7 million into Delhi-NCR developer Smartworld Developers

 

 

What assets are attracting money

In Q3, hospitality led with a 25% share, followed by office (20%), residential (16%), alternatives (14%), industrial and warehousing (13%) and mixed-use (12%). Over nine months, office was still the top destination at 37%, with mixed-use at 17%, alternatives at 16% and residential at 12%.

What it means

A rising share of domestic capital makes the market less dependent on foreign flows, which tend to swing with global conditions. The quarter, though, was not uniform: about 61% of Q3 investment came from deals spanning several cities.