Pune’s Cooperative Housing Societies Are Quietly Becoming India’s Most Powerful Real Estate Force

Pune's Cooperative Housing Societies Are Quietly Becoming India's Most Powerful Real Estate Force

Last monsoon, a retired schoolteacher named Meena Kulkarni in Kothrud received a notice that shook her entire apartment block. The Sahyadri Cooperative Housing Society, where she had lived for 32 years, was sitting on land now valued at approximately ₹185 crore — and a private developer wanted to redevelop the entire plot. The 144 member-families … Read more