People play cricket near a Godrej Properties Ltd. residential housing complex in the Chembur suburb of Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Before the pandemic, Mayank Vora, 34, and his wife were struggling to afford a one-bedroom apartment in one of Asia’s costliest cities. Now they are the proud owners of a two-bedroom home in a high-end residential complex on the outskirts of Mumbai they bought for 10.9 million rupees ($150,000).