The urge to ensure a better standard of living for themselves and their families back home has led countless Indians to migrate to countries offering attractive work-pay equations.

• This income-generating objective is the highest common factor - and though NRIs' ties with their country of birth sometimes erode to a certain extent, the willingness to turn a decent profit on investments back home does not.The Indian realty sector as a whole - namely, across the residential, retail, hospitality and commercial verticals - is slated to grow at 30 percent over the next decade, attaining a market size of around $180 billion by 2020.

• However, the investment opportunity lies less in the Indian real estate sector's speed of growth than in its overall dynamism.

• In many cities, they have misjudged where the actual demand is and how much buyers - including NRIs - are willing to spend on their first or second homes.

• Sluggish sales, especially in the luxury segment, have led developers to offer several attractive financial schemes.For NRIs who are on the verge of retiring and planning to do so in India, this is the right time to invest.

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