Lodha, the Mumbai-headquartered developer that traces its origins to 1980, has extended its footprint beyond the city's residential towers and integrated townships to Khopoli, a Sahyadri-facing town on the Mumbai-Pune corridor.
Khopoli's appeal as a weekend and second-home market is tied directly to the corridor's transformation.
The scale of capital entering the region is unusual for a town of Khopoli's size. The Khopoli railway station on the Central Line already gives the town a direct rail link to Mumbai and Pune, and the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation's presence has long anchored an industrial base here, which is now being layered with residential and hospitality demand.
Market reports tracking the corridor note that property prices in Khopoli have moved sharply over the past few years, coinciding with this infrastructure push.
Lodha's entry into a second-home category is consistent with a developer that operates well beyond a single city. The group's residential and commercial portfolio spans Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and London, and includes landmark builds such as Lodha Altamount, World Towers, Lodha Bellissimo, Trump Tower Mumbai and Lodha Park. It also developed Palava, a 4,500-acre planned city near Dombivli and the Navi Mumbai International Airport corridor, an example of the group's experience executing large, self-contained residential environments rather than standalone buildings.
The company listed on the BSE and NSE in 2021 as Macrotech Developers after an IPO that raised close to 2,500 crore rupees, and now operates under the Lodha brand across affordable, premium and luxury segments. That public listing brought a level of financial disclosure and reporting rigour to a business that had, until then, grown as a privately held family enterprise since Mangal Prabhat Lodha founded it in Mumbai in 1980.
For a buyer evaluating Khopoli, this history matters less as a marketing point and more as a practical one: a developer with decades of delivery across dense, complex Mumbai sites and a large planned city like Palava is applying the same design and hospitality standards to a lower-density, resort-format product in Khopoli, rather than treating it as an isolated land parcel.
That places it in a different bracket from land parcels marketed purely on price appreciation, and closer to a curated estate model, where design pedigree, private clubbing and estate management are as central to the offering as the plot or villa itself.
