Since the liberalization of the Indian economy, the government gave much importance to setting up Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in almost all the key strategic business locations of the country. This move encouraged many investments in infrastructure and real estate development. Most of the SEZs created in those times are now booming centers of trade and commerce.

The SEZs attracted a lot of foreign and domestic companies to set up shop. To cater to the immediate need for built up office spaces, most of the leading real estate developers who are known both nationally and internationally entered the scene. With increased outsourcing and newer business start-ups the need for office spaces has now outstripped supply in almost all the major parts of India.

At present, in India Real Estate Investment is considered a hot option for most of the foreign institutional investors. Scores of foreign institutional investors are now making a beeline to the Indian stock market because of low rates of returns in their home countries. While in earlier times the foreign investors were just allowed to hold shares of major real estate developers, recently rules have been liberalized to allow foreign infrastructure and real estate developers themselves to enter the scene.

This liberalized policy of the government has been a windfall for the investor community since the increased competition created a level playing field for both the domestic and the international realtors. The unqualified realtors fell out of the race to make way for the domination by the leading lights in the real estate sector.