The flagship event of Real estate club

The Real estate club is the youngest club at ISB. It was formed by us, the class of 2007. Working with very small alumni base, no background work done and very few people actively taking part in the club activities, I feel we did very well to conduct our flagship event. The details of the event can be found by clicking here.

The Real estate club at ISB is perhaps the only one of its kind in India. I don’t think any other B-School in India has a club dedicated to the Real estate sector. We have covered a lot of ground during the year and it was really hard due to lack of any precedents for the club. There are still only a few alums who are working in this sector. It was important for us to project the image of ISB as a student body with strong interest and experience in the sector to be able to tap on the opportunities in the sector in coming years.

The event was attended by almost the entire who’s who of the sector and various topics of research interest were discussed. Lack of land regulations, lack of good quality primary data for financial modeling and valuation, outdated regulations and the sector still being largely unorganized were a few of the issues brought out. The discussions gave some good pointers for the possible areas of research at the Real estate research lab at ISB.

All in all the success of this event was in some sense very satisfying for us, the founder members of this club, as running this club has been like running a startup business. I hope that in the coming years this startup will really scale up and the next batches would show the same level of enthu to take this club forward.