Lodha Is Richest Indian Property Tycoon With $3.8 Billion Wealth
(Bloomberg) -- Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the founder of Lodha Group and a lawmaker representing India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has become the nation's richest real estate developer after the company's sales increased 22 percent.
Lodha's wealth is estimated at 271.5 billion rupees ($3.8 billion), according to the GROHE Hurun India Real Estate Rich List. Lodha, who started the real estate business three decades ago in Mumbai, is constructing the 75-story Trump Tower in India's commercial capital.
The total wealth of top 100 Indians in the nation's real estate sector grew 27 percent from year ago to 2.36 trillion rupees, according to the Hurun list, as large property developers took advantage of a slowdown in the industry to acquire smaller rivals. Jitendra Virwani of Embassy Group, which is poised to sell India's first real estate investment trust, is the second richest.
Developers at the bottom of the pyramid are definitely affected by the slowdown in the real estate sector, but the top developers are relatively resilient as they are organized and have strong execution, Vineeth Chandrababu, associate vice president research at Hurun Report India said.
Top five in the GROHE Hurun India Real Estate Rich List 2018 include:
| Rank | Name | Networth INR Billion | Company | City of Residence |
| 1 | Mangal Prabhat Lodha | 271.50 | Lodha | Mumbai |
| 2 | Jitendra Virwani | 231.60 | Embassy | Bengaluru |
| 3 | Rajiv Singh | 176.90 | DLF | New Delhi |
| 4 | Chandru Raheja | 144.20 | K Raheja | Mumbai |
| 5 | Vikas Oberoi | 109.80 | Oberoi Realty | Mumbai |
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To contact the editors responsible for this story: Pratish Narayanan at pnarayanan9@bloomberg.net, Arijit Ghosh, Unni Krishnan
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