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4,820 Cr.

Asset Under Management
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11.9 MM

Leasable Area (sq. ft)

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3.9 MM

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6.3 MM

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Welspun One Fund Philosophy

Welspun One pioneered India’s first AIF that provides an opportunity for domestic players to invest in the booming warehouse business.

We ensure investments are carried out in a seamless and transparent manner without the hassle of physical ownership. This SEBI-governed AIF takes the concept of financialization of real estate a step further by providing an opportunity to invest across the entire asset creation cycle starting from land acquisition, leasing and development.

Our overarching investment approach is to combine in-depth local understanding and experience with a comprehensive set of institutional processes, research & analytics.

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Testimonials

“Welspun One’s utmost clarity in their vision has helped us chart out the master planning more efficiently. Their focus on quality and adherence to global compliance has played an integral role in defining the design principles for the warehouses. Welspun One’s openness and collaborative approach has paved the way for cohesive planning and implementation.”


Tata Consultancy Engineers

“We wanted to equip our strategic land parcels with Grade-A warehouses that hold huge growth potential in the current climate. As this mission was a step away from our core business, we were looking at reliable and expert partnerships that would yield us the desired results. Our joint venture with Welspun One is a collaboration not just in business but also in our strong commitment towards global compliance and transparency. Welspun One brings to the table, a deep understanding of the warehousing industry and its requirements that enables us to capitalise on our land assets optimally.”


GRT Group

Project Update portal provided by Welspun One brings in a lot of transparency and clarity on the exact status of the project and our Block at Welspun Bhiwandi. This clarity eases our overall operational planning.


Team Delhivery

One of our prime reasons to associate with Welspun One is their commitment to enable sustainable use of resources—a philosophy in which we strongly believe. As we strengthen our presence in India's economic capital through this deal, our facility at Welspun One will help us provide a safe and healthy working environment for our collaborators and boost our service offering to our valued customers.


Alexandre Amine SOUFIANI, MD, FM Logistic India

We believe in setting up quality facilities in strategic locations and are happy to work with partners such as Welspun One, who are vested in the growth of our express logistics business. The opening of centres in Bhiwandi and Farruknagar is a step in that direction and will be instrumental to our e-commerce fulfilment service as we scale up operations.


T. A. Krishnan Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

Our partnership with Welspun One has been fantastic one. With their strong fundamentals, quality development and an experienced team to handle solution-based approach for its clients, we have been able to successfully conclude transactions across Bhiwandi and Lucknow Logistics parks. ANAROCK sincerely anticipates deeper engagements and many more transactions going forward. Good luck to the entire team


Shobhit Agarwal MD & CEO, ANAROCK Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Sure Shot Suggestions is proud to have serviced Welspun One in Bhiwandi. Our client Ecom Express has been very happy closing this 1.50 lacs sq.ft. transaction in one of the largest fully compliant, international standard warehousing park. Sure shot thanks and appreciates the entire team of Welspun for all their Cooperation and professionalism.


Sanjay Puri Managing Director, Sure Shot Suggestions.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

Warehouses are a specialized class of real estate assets which are the modern day equivalent of “godowns”. A modern or “Grade A” warehouse is built with careful planning and attention to details which ensure the highest efficiency and throughput for its occupiers- this may include building level features like 12-15 meter height, specialized flooring, motorized “docks” for truck loading and unloading, fire and safety features, etc. and park level features including well planned traffic management, adequate parking, security, etc.

In addition to storage, today’s warehouses are used for various “value added” activities including packaging, sorting, quality check activities, etc., and light manufacturing and assembly operations by occupiers which may include e-commerce & logistics companies, retailers, FMCG/FMCD, Pharma, manufacturing, etc.

The warehousing sector is at an inflection point and is poised for significant growth in the coming years, aided by multiple factors including favourable regulation, growth in consumption volumes, explosion in e-commerce transactions and long-term manufacturing growth. Further, huge gap in demand and supply, lesser approvals, shorter development cycles, longer leases and strong balance sheet tenants looking for large format compliant assets has made this real estate investment a preferred option for global institutional investors. This is evident from the fact that in the last 5 years, Grade A warehousing has attracted commitments to the tune of USD 6BN from marquee global private equity and pension funds like Blackstone, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Allianz, Morgan Stanley, GIC Singapore, Ascendas and Mapletree to name a few.

Moreover, post Covid-19, warehousing emerged as a resilient asset class as it was less impacted than other real estate segments by Covid-induced disruptions (as they form critical part of any business’ supply chain), and thus, gained prominence in the portfolio allocation of various global private equity and pension funds.

India’s warehousing stock stands at ~280MM sf as of June 2022, and is expected to grow to ~500MM sf by Dec-2025, implying a CAGR of ~18%. Grade A stock stands at ~128MM sf as of June 2022. In comparison to this, China has total warehousing stock of over 11BN sf and USA, with 1/4th of India’s population, has over 15BN sf.

The average annual demand of warehousing in India is ~35-40MM sf. The Fund’s target portfolio size ~10-12MM sf over a 6 year period, or ~1.7-2.0MM sf p.a., which is ~4-5% of total market demand and can be easily serviced by Welspun One team.

One of the primary objectives of the government under the National Logistics Policy (NLP) is to reduce the logistics cost as percentage to GDP, which currently stands at 14% for India visà-vis 6-8% for other large economies. This is where warehousing as a critical component of logistics will play a major role and hence government has brought in multiple policies and initiatives to support/stimulate the growth of warehousing sector. GST was the major trigger that helped occupiers in consolidation of smaller warehouses and has brought Grade A warehousing in the limelight. Other policies that will directly or indirectly spur the growth of warehousing include various state level warehousing/logistics policies, infrastructure status to logistics sector, national masterplan for multi-modal connectivity, Make in India, Production Linked Incentive, availability of REIT/InVIT vehicles, corporate tax rate reduction, etc.

Warehousing sector emerged as a resilient asset class post Covid-19 as it was less impacted than other asset classes including commercial real estate by Covid-induced disruptions. While occupancy of office space went down significantly given multiple rounds of lockdowns and the ensuing trend of “work from home”, warehouses continued to function as they formed an integral part of the supply chain for delivery of essential and non-essential consumption items. In fact, warehousing demand increased significantly during this period due to demand from e-commerce sector which saw accelerated growth and a sharp increase in penetration as Covid-19 induced lockdowns promoted online buying behaviour.

There was an increased emphasis on supply chain realignment/ diversification both nationally and globally, aided by China plus one strategy, which further boosted demand for Grade A warehousing space. Moreover, companies got increasingly keen to move operations from Grade B facilities to well-planned, fully compliant Grade A facilities, in order to ensure worker safety in a post-Covid world.

Warehousing development is considered unique on multiple counts:

  • Land acquisition and approvals: large radius in the outskirts of cities, within which land can be acquired, implying increased land options available at relatively lesser costs.
  • Conversions and approvals: Fewer and faster approvals with standard process and enough precedence as most of the land lies outside city municipal limits.
  • Development: Warehouses are horizontal developments, with short construction cycles and low design complexity. Pre-engineered buildings are designed and built in factories, and directly installed at site, reducing the time to complete. Moreover, due to horizontal development, each warehouse can operate as a standalone box, irrespective of the completion status of other warehouses in the park which is not the case with vertical structures for residential and commercial buildings.
  • Leasing: : Significant portion of development is undertaken on “built-to-suit” basis for blue chip tenants. Hence, prior to committing capital on construction, usually a binding lease commitment is signed and security deposit is collected from the tenant which significantly de-risks the project from a leasing perspective. Moreover, these leases have long tenures (~9-20 years) and customers spend a significant amount on “fit outs” inside the building (often more than the cost of the building itself), making the leases very “sticky” in nature.

Welspun One 2 is the only fund in India that allows domestic pool of capital (HNIs / Family Offices / Institutions) an opportunity to participate in warehousing development projects via a SEBI registered AIF. Investors get to see the full cycle of Buy-Lease-Build-Exit thus getting an opportunity to derive returns from the whole value chain. The Fund effectively enables ownership in a physical real estate project but at the same time removes the hassles viz. buying, project planning and execution, leasing, rent collection, maintenance, large ticket size, illiquidity/ exits etc. that come with conventional real estate ownership.

The Fund can be a great investment option in the asset allocation model for HNIs, Family Offices, Corporates, Insurance companies, Pension Funds that are seeking to add tangible real estate investment in their portfolio but in the form of financial units (financialization of real estate).

The Fund’s offering has a moderate-aggressive risk profile. The Fund is a closed-ended illiquid product with limited or zero distributions anticipated through the life of the Fund and potential for capital appreciation at the end of the Fund life. However, there is no guarantee/assurances of returns or protection of capital. The Fund is exposed to various risks including systemic, market, economic, political and business risks. Please refer to the Fund's PPM for a more detailed account of the same.

The Fund tenure is 6 years from the first close, and is extendable by two periods of 1 year each, subject to consent of two-third majority of investors.

The Fund is targeting Gross IRR of ~20-21%1,2,3.

1 Gross deal level returns, pre-fund level fee, promote and taxes; Deal level returns are net of all projects level costs including approval costs, construction costs and fees which may be paid to vendors, consultants or brokers, including an affiliate of Welspun One

2 Returns are subject to market risks and there is no guarantee of achieving target returns or protection of capital; please refer scheme documentation for a detailed account of risks

3Estimated IRR based on Welspun One underwriting

The returns are not guaranteed as the investments are subject to various systemic, market, economic, political and business risks. Please refer to the Fund's PPM for a more detailed account of the same.

Investing in a 10 year G-Sec / AAA papers is akin to investing in a debt paper albeit backed by the government / corporate. The return profile is fixed and there are no interim escalations and if held to maturity there is no element of appreciation. Investing in Welspun One Fund 2 on the other hand entails ownership of the underlying real asset, deriving value through the full development and exit cycle, having annual escalations and potential of capital appreciation at the time of exit. Moreover, the Fund’s investments are backed by the underlying real assets, hence offering an element of downside protection. The Fund is expected to generate gross development returns of ~20-21%, with net pre-tax returns in the hands of investors of ~14- 17%, vs. ~6-9% in G-Sec / AAA rated bonds.

Welspun One has adopted an integrated fund and development model, wherein all activities across the project lifecycle, starting from land acquisition to lease, development and sale of the completed, cash flowing asset, are managed by the in-house Welspun One team. This enables Welspun One to maintain the highest levels of governance and transparency and tighter controls on project execution and delivery, thereby minimising cost and time overruns. The Fund is thus able to capture value across the entire project lifecycle and generate “Development Profits” of ~20- 21% Gross IRR, instead of typical pre-leased asset return of ~13-14%.

Welspun One and Welspun World, as sponsor/anchor investors, shall jointly commit INR 75Cr in the Fund. This will ensure alignment of interest between Welspun One and Welspun World, as well as the other Fund investors. A similar amount was committed in Welspun One Fund 1 as well.

The warehouses are leased to blue chip tenants with strong balance sheets from various sectors including e-commerce, third party logistics (3PL), retail, FMCG, etc. Some of the marquee tenants included in Welspun One Fund 1 portfolio are Delhivery, Ecom Express (backed by Warburg Pincus), FM Logistics, Asian Paints, Tata Croma, Flipkart (backed by Walmart) and Emiza. There has been instance of repeat tenants across multiple locations.

Warehousing leases are typically long term in nature with tenure of ~9+ years and lock-in of ~3-5 years. Warehousing leases typically have a built in escalation clause of ~4.5-5% p.a. If the tenant annuls the contract prior to expiry of lease term, the tenant has to pay for the remaining duration of lock in period. However an important point to note here is that the fitouts cost incurred by the tenant before moving in are very high and they typically get amortised over the life of the lease. Hence moving out of the warehouse before the lease period ends is a loss making proposition for the tenants making the lease sticky.

The Fund typically invests in projects at a “greenfield” or land stage. At this stage, there are typically no formal contracted pre-lease arrangements with tenants and such arrangements are usually possible only post acquisition of the land. However, as a strategy Welspun One de-risks each acquisition by a detailed market diligence including potential demand for the subject site and competing supply. Welspun One also seeks informal or soft commitments from tenants. Basis these comforts Welspun One proceeds to acquire the land. Once the land is bought, meaningful capex towards construction is only done after signing lease commitments with tenants and after the tenant has paid a security deposit.

The Logistics and Warehousing sector have been awarded infrastructure status by the government, hence the construction finance for our projects is easily available at favourable rates from various leading banks. Further, banks look at this asset class favourably since, given most of the development takes place post leasing there is a guaranteed take out for the bank by way of rental securitization. In Fund 1, we have obtained funding from HDFC Bank for our Bhiwandi asset and IndusInd Bank for Lucknow, Farrukhnagar (Gurgaon) and Bangalore assets.

Welspun One’s development management team offers asset management services to the project entities, which will also include rent collection among other services. We have a dedicated inhouse rent collection team that ensures continuity and red flags for any discrepancies. From the rent continuity perspective, there are enough safeguards that have been put in place. The warehouses are leased to blue chip tenants with strong balance sheets. Warehousing rent typically forms ~15-20% of total logistics cost hence sensitivity to overall logistics cost due to increase in rents is not so high. Further, warehousing forms a critical part in a business’ supply chain operations and the fit out costs incurred by the tenants are very high. All these factors reduce the chances of default in warehousing leases. Lastly lease agreement with tenants capture adequate penal provisions to protect the lessor in case of a default, including forfeiture of security deposits.

The Fund will primarily invest in warehousing development projects and exit completed, rentgenerating asset to institutional buyers/ REITs or INVITs. There is a huge demand from institutional buyers for Grade A compliant warehousing assets. Recent deals include Hillhouse capital buying a Morgan Stanley asset for USD 83MM, Blackstone buying the Embassy portfolio for USD 700MM, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board committing USD 500MM with Indospace, Mapletree buying select Morgan Stanley assets for USD 63MM to name a few. The gain from Fund’s investment will be realised in the form of capital gains at the time of exit from projects, hence the distribution to the Fund investors shall also be back-ended, closer to the end of Fund term. In case some of the projects are exited sooner than end of the Fund term, realisation from such projects shall be distributed to the investors sooner.

Grade A warehousing assets offer stable yield of ~7-8% p.a., with contracted escalation of ~5% p.a., giving them unlevered returns of 12-13% which can be further improved by leverage. Such a return profile, backed by real assets and long term leases to high quality tenants is attractive for these investors. Post Covid-19, warehousing also emerged as a resilient asset class as it was less impacted compared to other real estate segments given its critical role in business’ supply chain operations. As a result, it has gained prominence in asset allocation strategy of various institutional investors due to superior risk return matrix and longevity.

Welspun One’s Fund 1 and Fund 2 are the only SEBI registered category 2 AIFs offering domestic investors an opportunity to participate in the warehousing development segment in a transparent, organized and institutional manner.
There are few other institutional developers engaged in warehousing development projects, which are backed by foreign investors (and do not provide participation opportunities to domestic investors) such as Blackstone, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Bain Capital, Morgan Stanley, GIC, Oxford, Temasek and Ivanhoe Cambridge to name a few. These investors have committed ~USD 6 BN in last 5 years in the Indian warehousing space.

It takes anywhere between 6-9 months from identification of land to acquisition, post completion of various detailed due diligences (title/ legal, technical, financial) and fulfilment of applicable transaction conditions. To ensure efficiency in deployment, monies are paid to acquire the land only after the entire process described above is completed satisfactorily.

Once the land is acquired, the approval timelines vary from state to state, and may range from 3-9 months depending on the state level approval framework and policies.

Thereafter, it takes another 8-9 months to complete construction of each warehouse structure and handover over to a potential tenant. The delivery of all the warehouses in the entire park is staggered (depending on leasing demand) and typically happens in 2-3 phases. Thus, it takes ~2-3 years to complete the construction and delivery of the entire park post land acquisition.

Warehousing developments are horizontal structures, with shorter development cycles and low construction complexity. They involve fewer and faster approvals, and even a large scale warehouse development (~1-2MM sf) project can typically be completed in ~2-3 years post land acquisition. Given horizontal nature of development, each warehouse can operate as a standalone box, completed, leased out and rent generating even while development of the remaining park is underway. Warehouse development is also mostly “built to suit” or “preleased” which means that meaningful capital expenditure is only incurred once a lease commitment is signed with a tenant, thereby minimizing leasing or market risk. Moreover, tenants typically incur significant capex on fit-outs and automation of the warehouses as they form critical part of their business’ supply chain operations, thus leading to an increased demand for long term leases, which helps them in efficient amortisation of capex over the lease term.

On the other hand, commercial properties have vertical structures, with long development cycle and high construction complexity. The approvals process takes much longer than warehousing, and the entire building needs to be completed in order to commence operations on any floor. It typically takes ~5-6 years since land acquisition to project completion. Such vertical constructions are typically exposed to significant time and cost overruns. Due to the longer delivery cycles, pre-leasing is usually not possible. Moreover, since limited investment is made by tenants in such properties, their leases tend to be shorter term and less sticky than warehousing, and are prone to vacancy risks.

Investment in warehousing via the Fund benefits investors on 2 counts:

  1. Investors get to invest in warehousing real estate segment via a financial product, thus avoiding the hassles of owning physical real estate viz. illiquidity, high ticket size, maintenance etc. and instead owning units in their demat account. These financial products are wellregulated and employ a tax efficient structure.
  2. Investors get to participate in development projects i.e. right from the land stage through the leasing and development journey to earn attractive development linked returns and get value derived on the entire value chain.

The Fund plans to invest in ~10-12 projects (based on cumulative offer size of INR 1,500- 2,000Cr), and maintain judicious diversification in order to mitigate concentration risks related to single investment exposure, markets and micro-market exposure, tenant-wise exposure and vendor-wise exposure.

The Fund has committed 100% of its net investible corpus in 6 warehousing projects across 5 cities in ~2 years of launch, and is tracking inception-to-date Gross IRR of ~21.1%1,2,3 . The expected hold-to-maturity Gross IRR is ~20-22%1,2,3. The Fund is also expecting exits from 2 of its projects in early 2023.

The Fund’s total portfolio has cumulative gross leasable area of ~6.6 million square feet, out of which ~3.1 million square feet has been leased, ~1.0 million square feet has been handed over to tenants and ~2.0 million square feet is on track for delivery by April 2023.

1 Gross deal level returns, pre-fund level fee, promote and taxes; Deal level returns are net of all projects level costs including approval costs, construction costs and fees which may be paid to vendors, consultants or brokers, including an affiliate of Welspun One

2 Returns are subject to market risks and there is no guarantee of achieving target returns or protection of capital; please refer scheme documentation for a detailed account of risks

3 Estimated IRR based on Welspun One underwriting

The Fund has drawndown ~72.5% of total capital commitment or ~INR 366Cr as of November 2022.

The Fund has committed 100% of its net investible corpus as of December 2022.

The Fund has leased warehousing space to blue chip companies from diverse sectors such as 3PL, express logistics, e-commerce, retail and FMCG across its projects. These include marquee players such as Delhivery, Ecom Express, FM Logistics, Asian Paints, Tata Croma, Flipkart and Emiza.

The estimated stabilized entry yield ranges from ~9-10% across various projects.

1 Gross deal level returns, pre-fund level fee, promote and taxes; Deal level returns are net of all projects level costs including approval costs, construction costs and fees which may be paid to vendors, consultants or brokers, including an affiliate of Welspun One

2 Gross deal level returns, pre-fund level fee, promote and taxes; Deal level returns are net of all projects level costs including approval costs, construction costs and fees which may be paid to vendors, consultants or brokers, including an affiliate of Welspun One

3 Estimated IRR based on Welspun One underwriting

Fund 1 investor base includes various high net worth individuals, family offices as well as a provident fund investor.

Particulars Fund Details
Fund Name Welspun One Fund 2
Target Fund Size INR 1,000Cr (additional up to INR 1,000Cr as Green Shoe option)
Sponsor / Anchor Commitment INR 75Cr
Fund Tenure 6 years from First Close (extendable by two 1 year periods)
Commitment Period 3 years from Final Close (extendable by 6 months)
Initial Contribution 20% of capital commitment
Setup Expenses To be charged at actuals, subject to a cap of 2.0% on Capital Commitment (excluding applicable GST)
Management Fee and Carry
Unit Class Commitment (INR Cr) Management fee* Hurdle Carry (with catch-up)
A1 1 to 5 2.00% 12.00% 17.50%
A2 5+ to 25 1.75% 12.00% 15.00%
A3 25+ to 50 1.25% 12.00% 12.50%
A4 50+ to 70 1.00% 12.00% 12.50%
A5 - Anchor 70+ 0.75% 15.00% 12.50%

*On drawn down capital; excluding applicable GST

Welspun One Fund 2 is a SEBI registered Category 2 AIF.

The Fund may accept investments from high net worth individuals, bodies corporate, insurance companies, pension funds, banks, financial institutions, sovereign funds, multilateral institutions and other sophisticated and institutional investors, Hindu undivided family, proprietorship, association, trust, corporation, company, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, co-operative society, non-banking financial companies, family offices, estates, foreign portfolio investors, government or government agency or authority, any other class of person and any body or organization of individuals or persons whether incorporated or not and whether incorporated in India or outside of India, who are eligible to invest in the Scheme and to hold Units in accordance with applicable law. The Fund can also accept investments from pension funds and charitable institutions subject to their constitutive documents.

The Fund is a close ended fund, and no exit shall be available to investors till the end of the Fund’s tenure.

Investment in Warehousing development projects entail upfront investment towards acquisition of land and key approvals (60-70% of total project equity), and then subsequent investment over a 2-3 year period towards development and construction cost for the project. The Fund will accordingly align its drawdown from investors with the deployment in the project to minimize drag on fund returns. Thus, drawdowns from investors are expected to be made over ~3 years from the final close. The upfront drawdown at the time of on-boarding shall be 20% of commitment amount.

Welspun One, as the investment manager of the Fund, may provide defaulting investor with an opportunity to remedy the default within 15 calendar days from the date of notice to remedy the default. If the default is not cured within the given period, the investment manager may exercise some remedial measures as per the provisions of the PPM including but not limited to charging the defaulting investor interest at 15% (excluding any tax) on the overdue amount, suspension or termination of the rights to make future Capital Contributions and suspension of voting rights. Please refer to the Fund PPM for detailed provisions on consequences of default.

The Fund may offer co-investment opportunities to investors above a certain ticket size in select large deals. The Fund would offer co-investment only after investing approximately 15% of its net investible corpus in the given deal.

The Fund shall invest such amount in liquid mutual funds or bank deposits or other liquid assets of higher quality such as treasury bills, triparty repo dealing and settlement, commercial papers, certificates of deposits, etc. as permitted under the AIF regulations.

The final close shall held within a period of 12 months from the first close, subject to an extension of 6 months by Welspun One, as the investment manager of the fund, in its sole discretion.

Particulars Timelines
Allotment statement Within 45 days of investor on-boarding
Annual report of the Fund Within 180 calendar days from end of relevant FY
Quarterly newsletters with updates on the Fund and its portfolio investments Within 60 calendar days of end of relevant quarter
Statement of accounts of contributors
  • Quarterly, within a period of 2 (two) months from the end of the relevant quarter
  • Shared with every Drawdown Notice within a period of 10 Calendar Days from the relevant Drawdown Date
  • Shared with every distribution within a period of 10 calendar days from the relevant distribution
Advance tax letter or documents necessary for the Contributor to claim credit for taxes 5 calendar days before the due date
Form 16A under the Income Tax Act, 1961 Within 60 calendar days of end of relevant quarter, or such other timelines prescribed by the Income Tax Act
Statement of income distributed by the Fund in Form 64C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 & the annual tax letter of the Fund Within the timelines prescribed by Income Tax Act

In addition to the above, the Fund will also send event-based email updates to investors.

Welspun One strives to attain the highest standards of corporate governance, including high level of transparency and accessibility to its esteemed investors.

With that objective in mind, Welspun One has created an investor portal that is first of its kind in the industry primarily aimed at providing all relevant data to investors at just click of a button.

  • Investment details , including details of amount invested, units allotted, amount pending drawdown, next drawdown date, latest NAV, etc.
  • Document repository , which allows investors to access the executed contribution agreement, PPM, statement of accounts, tax statements, Fund’s quarterly updates, Fund’s annual reports and any other document issued by the Fund.
  • Fund’s portfolio details , including details of investments, status of development, leasing, hand over to tenants, etc. The portal even enables the investors to access details of each project including projected timelines, deployment status, construction milestones, tenants along with live photographs and drone video shoots that will be updated periodically. This would ensure complete transparency between the Fund and the investor.

Welspun One has engaged an 18 member E&Y team, manned by a resident E&Y partner and working out of various project site offices, that does concurrent audit on all site processes. A concurrent audit is done pre-facto, wherein whenever a bill is raised by a contractor, the E&Y team first audits whether the job is completed as per the contracted conditions and only after the team is satisfied with the quality and timelines of the job, the bill is sent further for processing.

Welspun One also uses extensive technology to conduct weekly reviews on various projects. These reviews are based on a digital project management dashboard, wherein data is updated by the E&Y team only. All Welspun One employees have view-only rights to this dashboard, and thus cannot update/ modify any data. This gives the management team a full, transparent view of project status and can therefore take timely corrective actions to avoid cost and time overruns.

Investors are welcome to visit the site with prior notice of 2 working days.

Welspun One has an in-house team of approx. 140 professionals, in addition to 20 external experts, with deep local / institutional expertise in investments, leasing, development, asset management and audit. Please refer to the fund information deck for organisation structure and profiles of key team members at Welspun One.
A summary of prior experience of key team members is available on request.

Core team of Welspun One has extensive relevant experience in real estate fund management, investment, development as well as leasing. Some of the senior team members have played significant role in warehousing investment, development and leasing. On a cumulative basis, our senior team possesses 325+ years of real estate experience, has transacted ~4,000 acres, delivered ~225 MM sf of project area including ~65MM sf of warehousing area. Please refer to the fund information deck to know more about relevant experience of the team.
A summary of prior experience of key team members is available on request.

Welspun One has adopted an integrated fund and development model, wherein all activities across the project lifecycle, starting from land acquisition to lease, development and sale of cash flowing asset, are managed by Welspun One, without dependence on external developers. This enables Welspun One to maintain tighter controls on project execution and delivery, thereby minimising cost and time overruns. The Fund is thus able to capture value across the entire project lifecycle and generate “Development Profit” of 20-21%, instead of typical pre-leased asset return 13-14%.
The Welspun One team is currently staffed to manage acquisitions of ~200-250acres of land parcels, leasing and delivery of ~3-4MM sf p.a.

The Fund will invest in project entities primarily in the form of unlisted equity shares, and exit via sale of these equity shares after completion (development and lease) of the project, which is typically expected to take ~2-3 years. Hence the income of the Fund will primarily be in the nature of long term capital gains for taxation purpose.

Since SEBI registered Category 2 AIF has a pass through status under income tax regulations for all income other than business income, any capital gains earned by the Fund will be taxed directly in the hands of the investors. At the same time, indexation benefit applicable on the instrument, through which the Fund makes its investment in project entities, will also be available to the end investors.

The applicable tax rate for long term capital gains on unlisted shares for resident investors is 20% + surcharge (applicable to the investor) + cess.

Please note that the above rate is only indicative in nature, and you are requested to consult your tax advisor for detailed advice.

In case of an individual, the following documents are required - CVL verification, identity proof, address proof (Aadhar card in case of resident individual), PAN Card and cancelled cheque. In case of a non-individual, the following documents are required – the authorized signatory list, board resolution, address proof, UBO (Ultimate Beneficiary Owner) declaration and shareholding pattern.

There is a digital process available for on-boarding, which allows for online execution of documents.

We are in the process of obtaining Fund Management rating from a leading rating agency.

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