Certus Capital Invests Rs 5 Bn and Expands Real Estate Portfolio

22 Apr 2025 CW Team

Certus Capital, an institutional real estate investment firm, has invested approximately Rs 5 billion through secured private credit across four real estate projects—comprising one commercial office development and three residential ventures located in Mumbai and Hyderabad. This move has significantly increased the firm’s total secured private credit investments, which now stand at Rs 10 billion.

Among the funded projects, the commercial office development is situated near Juhu in the western suburbs of Mumbai, with nearly half of its inventory already pre-sold. In the residential segment, the firm has backed a project in the Prabhadevi area of Central Mumbai, where structural work is nearing completion and more than 60 per cent of the units have been sold.

Certus Capital has also extended funding to a project in Andheri East, where construction has reached the top-out stage for two out of three towers. Combined, these Mumbai-based investments span approximately 5,30,000 sq ft. Furthermore, the company has made its debut investment in Hyderabad, committing Rs 1.80 billion to a residential project that is being developed in two phases and covers a total saleable area of 3.3 million sq ft.

News source: Projects Today

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