Real Estate in South Asia

Prashant Das, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance and the acting director of the Real Estate and Finance Institute at École hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland. Prashant has delivered Master's, executive and undergraduate-level courses in Switzerland, the USA, China, India and Romania. Earlier, he served in managerial and engineering roles with several firms/organizations, including HCL Infosystems and Tata Consultancy Services. Prashant has earned seven internationally competitive best research paper awards and a teaching excellence award. Ramya Aroul is an assistant professor of finance at Texas A&M University–Commerce, USA. She holds a Ph.D. specializing in Finance and Real Estate and an MS in Real Estate from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her work has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and the Journal of Real Estate Research and has been presented at national and international conferences like those of the Financial Management Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and Eastern Finance Association. Julia Freybote is an assistant professor of finance at Portland State University, USA, and an extraordinary associate professor in the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Real Estate and a Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) from Georgia State University, USA, as well as a Diplom-Kauffrau degree from EBS Universität in Germany. Her research interests include real estate finance and investment, behavioural real estate and sustainability and sustainable urban development in the context of real estate asset pricing. She has taught graduate and undergraduate real estate courses in the USA and South Africa.

A1. Foreword 1

Graeme Newell PhD

A2. Foreword 2

Jeffrey Fisher PhD

A3. Editors’ Notes

Prashant Das PhD, Julia Freybote PhD & Ramya Aroul PhD

A4. A Synopsis of the Chapters

Julia Freybote PhD, Prashant Das PhD & Ramya Aroul PhD

A5. Profile of Chapter Contributors

A6. Panel of Reviewers

Section B: Pan-South Asia

B1. The Economics of Real Estate Knowledge in South Asia: An Analysis of Supply and Demand in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Prashant Das PhD, Peter Varga PhD and Emna M’Seddi

B2. A Macroeconomic Overview of South Asia: A Real Estate Perspective

Yong Chen PhD, Prashant Das PhD

B3. Do South Asian Lenders Assume More Risk by Offering Real Estate Loans?

Gianluca Mattarocci PhD and Xenia Scimone

B4. Buildings, Distributed Energy and the Grid: South Asian Scenario

Abhay Ambati

Section C: Chapters by Country

C1. Bangladesh

C11. A Brief History of Real Estate Finance Development in Bangladesh

Mohammad Riaz Uddin PhD

C2. Bhutan

C21. Real Estate Markets of Bhutan

Dawa Tamang

C3. India

C31. Trader to Investor: Evolution of Real Estate Development in India

Ashish Gupta and Sunil Agarwal PhD

C32. Alternative Finance Solutions’ to Promote Affordable Housing

Syed Zahid Ahmad

C33. REITs in India: A Story Still Unfolding

Charles R. Thomas Jr PhD and Prashant Das PhD

C34. Co-Working In India - A Perspective

Rahul Singh

C35. Creating Higher Density Property Development Opportunities in Fringe Areas of Surat – A Case of Surat Outer Ring-Road using Land Readjustment and Density Bonuses

Jay Mittal, Lindsey Forson and Sweta Byahut

C36. The HIAL Project in India – A Case Study

Vlad Poenaru

C4. Maldives

C41. Country Profile: The Maldives

Giorgio Antonelli and Vanessa Yeung

C5. Nepal

C51. Real Estate Markets in Nepal

Humnath Panta PhD

C6. Pakistan

C61. Pakistan – A Country Profile

Muhammad Khan Niazi PhD

C62. Real Estate Markets in Pakistan

Julia Freybote PhD

C63. The REIT Market in Pakistan

Kola Akinsomi PhD and Julia Freybote PhD

C7. Sri Lanka

C71. Facilitating Urban Underserved Dwellers and Paradigm Shift in Real Estate Development: The Case of Colombo

Harsha Munasinghe