Bengaluru, May 23 -- Real estate action is quietly shifting to Tier II and Tier III cities. From Indore to Warangal, Jaipur to Ujjain, these smaller towns are no longer just hometowns people leave behind - they're turning into real estate hotspots.

A Quiet Boom: What's Really Happening When Amit, a 35-year-old software professional from Jaipur, shifted back from Pune during the pandemic, he didn't plan on staying. "I thought it was temporary. But when I saw how fast Jaipur was growing - the roads, the malls, the schools - I realised I could live well here. I even bought a flat," he says. And he isn't alone. In cities like Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, and Nagpur, new housing projects are coming up rapidly. Prices are more reasonable, and people ...