Cross-Border Capital Is Reshaping Real Estate. PropFolios Is Betting on One Desk for Two Markets.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jul 20, 2026 (EMWNews.com) – The same investor increasingly wants exposure to a Bengaluru launch and a Saadiyat Island villa in the same conversation. NRI capital deployment into Indian real estate reached a record 1.43 lakh crore in the first quarter of 2026, according to ANAROCK, while Dubai’s off-plan segment accounted for 62% of AED 91.67 billion in quarterly transaction volume, up 24% year-over-year, per Dubai Land Department data. PropFolios, a private advisory desk for institutional and high-net-worth capital, has built its business around that overlap — running one underwriting standard across both markets through propfolios.com and propfolios.ae, with clients moving between desks through a single region toggle rather than two separate relationships.

One Standard, Two Markets

PropFolios’ India desk reports over 600 crore under advisory across roughly 3,000 screened primary launches, concentrated among nine tier-1 developers in Mumbai, Bengaluru, the National Capital Region and Goa. Its UAE desk reports more than AED 420 million under advisory across seven vetted developers and 18 active launches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Both desks apply the same five-factor underwriting model — connectivity, build quality, value, yield and resale liquidity — and publish quarterly market outlooks built on Knight Frank-style methodology.

The firm’s compensation structure is retainer-based: developer commissions are credited back to the client in full, disclosed line by line. On the UAE side, PropFolios says it converts a client brief into a 12-page allocation memo — PSF benchmarking, escrow-integrity checks, developer delivery history, and a three-scenario IRR model — within 14 days.

“Capital allocation has stopped following passports,” said Joliber Fernandes, Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of PropFolios. “A client based in London might have NRI status, UAE residency and an India allocation thesis all at once. Selling that client two disconnected experiences — one desk that knows Mumbai, another that knows Dubai, neither aware of the other — was the actual gap in this market. Closing it is a sales problem as much as a research one.”

The Capital Case for Studios

PropFolios also operates PropFolios Studios, a digital-twin and immersive-visualization practice that has produced more than 113 scenes and 38 case studies across seven sectors, including aviation, maritime, hospitality, healthcare, and government and smart-city projects — alongside its core real estate work.

“From where I sit, Studios isn’t a marketing add-on — it’s a margin story,” said Amol Bandekar, Co-Founder and CFO of PropFolios. “A digital twin that started as a sales tool for a Mumbai tower is now a deliverable governments and airport operators pay for independently. That’s a second revenue line built on infrastructure we already had to build for our own advisory work.”

Distribution, Not Just Underwriting

PropFolios frames its underwriting discipline as inseparable from how deals get sold. “The research desk can build the best scorecard in the market, but the client only experiences it through a conversation,” said Aman Kandolkar, Sales Director and Principal Partner at PropFolios. “We tell clients which of the eighteen launches on our board we wouldn’t recommend, and why, before they ask. That’s what gets referred to the next family office.”

Terminal PRO and the Toolkit

Qualified clients on both platforms get access to Terminal PRO, a research workspace combining a live primary-market data feed, deal-underwriting tools, area heatmaps and an AI research assistant, alongside a mortgage marketplace, ROI and EMI calculators, stamp-duty and Monte Carlo simulators, and side-by-side project comparison tools spanning the full deal lifecycle from brief to exit.

About PropFolios

PropFolios is a private advisory desk for capital allocating into primary residential real estate, operating coverage across Mumbai, Bengaluru, the National Capital Region and Goa in India, and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The firm serves family offices, HNW principals and NRI capital from offices in Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Singapore. PropFolios is RERA-registered in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Goa, and holds RERA Brokerage Licence No. 202503400201 in Abu Dhabi, DLD-compliant and ADREC-aligned. propfolios.com · propfolios.ae

About PropFolios Studios

PropFolios Studios is the spatial-computing and digital-twin arm of PropFolios, building immersive environments for governments, developers and organizations shaping real-world space across the UAE, India and Saudi Arabia. propfolios.com/studios · propfolios.ae/studios

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