Rich Indians Living Abroad Snap Up Luxury Homes to Benefit from Booming Economy

  • Surging demand pushes top-end home sales to 10-year high
  • Indians living abroad likely to make up 20% of all home sales
Residential buildings under construction at the One Midtown project, developed by DLF, in New Delhi.Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg
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Wealthy Indians living abroad are snapping up luxury homes in the nation, with the investment play driving a boom in sales of top-end properties.

Take Dubai-based Sunil Pillai, who left India 25 years ago and recently bought a two-bedroom apartment costing around $1 million in the country’s tech hub Bengaluru.