BHOPAL, Feb. 25 -- With the Global Investors Summit igniting a million hopes, the state capital seems to be gearing up for a real estate jackpot that could see investors laughing all the way to the bank.

According to real estate analytics firm PropEquity, housing sales in the city grew by 10 per cent in 2024. Market watchers attribute a fair chunk of this rise to the development of new roads on the city's outskirts, which have started attracting buyers.

They underline that these figures are limited to housing units alone and that the actual growth in overall market size could be much larger.

Realty in Bhopal is mainly segregated into industrial, agricultural, commercial, and residential acreage. These segments are further divided between...