• India's Real Estate sector is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30% in the next 5 years to $50 billion from $12 billion currently.
• Housing requirement in India at 80 million units over the next 15 years
• Office space required in India at 200 million square feet over the next five years
• Overseas funds announced so far for investment in Indian real estate: about $7 billion.
• Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the sector in last 12 months: $600 million.
• Expected FDIs in the sector expected to touch $15-$16 billion by 2012.
• Largest Real Estate Initial Public Offerings (IPO) by DLF Ltd for $2.4 billion oversubscribed more than two times; Market capitalisation $23 billion

• India is the second largest producer of cement following China producing about 142 million tonnes accounting for 6.4% percent of the world production which is about 2.22 billion tonnes.
• Large cement companies in India have registered an average growth rate of about 95%, owing to the recent boom in the housing sector.
• Average net profit of these companies has increased more than 100%.
• Cement production has grown at the rate of 13.3% year-on-year compared to 3.6% in the previous accounting period.
• Clinker and Cement exports poised to reach 10 million tonnes for the current year, with a large part of the export being consumed by Gulf countries, Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Cement Industry in India has attracted foreign investments from International cement companies namely, France's Lafarge Group, Holcim Ltd from Switzerland, Italy's Italcementi Group and Germany's Heidelberg Cement.

• India’s Real Estate sector is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30% over the next 5 years to $50 billion from $12 billion currently. 
• Overseas funds announced so far for investment in Indian real estate: about $7 bln. 
• Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the sector in last 12 months: $600 million.
• Expected FDIs in the sector expected to touch $15-$16 billion by 2012.
• India offers commercial rental yield in the range of 9% - 10.5% and Returns on Investment (RoI) in the range of 20%-25%
• Real Estate Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and follow on public issues in the pipeline:
• DLF Universal Ltd, the largest real estate developer in North India: IPO
• Ansal Properties & Infrastructure Ltd (Ansal-API), India’s leading infrastructure development company: Follow-on public issue

• Overseas funds announced so far for investment in Indian real estate: about $7 bln
• Foreign direct investment (FDI) in real estate in last 12 months: about $600 mln
• International Real Estate Fund started by India’s largest housing finance company Housing Development Finance Corporation(HDFC): $720 mln
• Real estate fund by an Israel-based financial services company Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings: $700 mln
• India Property Fund of JP Morgan Asset Management, New York-based global investment manager: $360 mln
• HDFC’s India Real Estate Fund: $216 mln

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