Value Creation

Kotak Realty Fund (KRF) is able to enhance value for Investors due to a proactive investment strategy, leveraging growth, risk mitigation and financial engineering.

Proactive Investment Strategy

We select our investments proactively through conducting on ground research, analysis of the growth drivers and keeping a tab on the latest developments. We align the latest developments with the microeconomics of the region to spot trends and investment ideas much before they become the “flavor of the season”.

We constantly monitor real estate markets across India to identify and develop investment ideas based on asset class, geography and emerging growth drivers. These allow us to develop expertise rapidly within special areas, to react quickly to potential opportunities, and to develop strong relationships with key developers in that area.

Leveraging Growth

Our key focus has been to develop most promising investment ideas based on:

• Emerging growth drivers
• Asset classes and geographies

We are one of the few well capitalized players with flexibility of investment routes, which allows us to respond quickly to complex deals.

Risk Mitigation

Our real estate investments are generally growth stage and development focused. Due to legal, political and execution risks involved,we provide for adequate margin of safety by:

• Appropriate due diligence
• Use of conservative assumptions in projecting cash flows
• Careful scenario analysis

Financial Engineering

We also participates actively in planning and advising the investee companies on their capital structures.

We believe in prudent use of debt and due to our network have been able to assist portfolio companies to obtain financing arrangements on better market terms, which in turn provides better returns. As a cutting edge financial institution, we are able to structure our investments innovatively and provide unique need based financial solutions enabling the developer and us to enhance the returns from the investments. This makes us the “partner of choice” by the development community.