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Luxury housing averts slowdown in realty sector

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According to a JLL report, approximately 45,000 luxury housing units were launched in financial year 2016 with the top nine cities constituting 21 per cent of the total residential launches.

Bengaluru leads the list with 30 per cent of luxury home launches followed by Mumbai which comprised 17 per cent of the launches across India. Bengaluru also leads in luxury home sales constituting 29 per cent of the total in financial year 2016 followed by Mumbai reporting 16 per cent of sales. Pune comes third with 15 per cent of sales. In total, 47,000 luxury units were sold in the top nine cities accounting for 17 per cent of the total residential sales in the country.

"Evidently, the much-hyped gloom and doom story is vastly exaggerated. Media stories – which predicted that luxury housing in India is finished – lost sight of the fact that luxury housing caters to a specific segment of demand which, like the demand for budget and mid-income housing, has not gone away. India’s wealthier home buyers still want high-class homes with all the bells and whistles of sophistication in great locations," said Ashwinder Raj Singh, CEO (residential services) of JLL India.

Vivek Singhal, spokesman of M3M Group, echoed a similar sentiment. "The share of luxury housing in the overall housing market may come down marginally. However, this is due to the overall increase in the housing market size. With rapid GDP growth, India is poised to become a $4-trillion economy in the next five-seven years. This will result in substantial increase in the number of millionaires and HNIs, driving the demand for luxury housing. However, luxury housing requires a high level of meticulous planning, positioning, and branding of projects," Singhal said.

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Cement industry to gain from new infrastructure spending

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As per a news report, Karan Adani, ACC Chair, has said that he expects the cement industry to benefit from the an anticipated US$2.2tn in new public infrastructure spending between 2025 and 2030. In a statement he said that ACC has crossed the 100Mt/yr cement capacity milestone in April 2025, propelling the company to get closer to its ambitious 140Mt/yr target by the 2028 financial year. The company’s capacity corresponds to 15 per cent of an all-India installed capacity of 686Mt/yr.

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AI boom drives demand, says ACA

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The American Cement Association projects a nearly 1Mt annual increase in US cement demand over the next three years, driven by the surge in AI data centres. Consumption by data centres is expected to grow from 247,000 tonnes in 2025 to 860,000 tonnes by 2027. With over 5,400 AI data centres currently operating and numbers forecast to exceed 6,000 by 2027, the association cautions that regulatory hurdles and labour shortages may impact the industry’s ability to meet demand.

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GoldCrest Cement to build plant in India

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GoldCrest Cement will build a greenfield integrated plant with a 3.5Mt/yr clinker capacity and 4.5Mt/yr cement capacity. GoldCrest Cement appointed Humboldt Wedag India as engineering, procurement and construction contractor in March 2025 and targets completion by March 2027. It has signed a 40-year supply agreement with Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation for 150Mt of limestone from its upcoming Lakhpat Punrajpur mine in Gujarat.

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