Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (NSE:MAHLIFE) Q2 FY23 Earnings Concall dated Nov. 04, 2022
Corporate Participants:
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Analysts:
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Manan Patel — Airavat Capital — Analyst
Prem Khurana — Anand Rathi — Analyst
Jainam Shah — Equirus Securities Private Limited — Analyst
Presentation:
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q2 and H1 FY ’23 Earnings Conference Call of Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded.
I now hand the conference over to Mr. Arvind Subramanian, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Thank you and over to you, sir.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you. Good morning everyone and welcome to our Q2 and H1 FY 2023 earnings call. I’d like to thank everyone for participating in this conference call. As you are aware, many of our key operating entities from the residential business like Mahindra Homes, Mahindra Happinest and as well as our IC & IC business, which is Mahindra World City Developers Limited, Mahindra World City Jaipur Limited and Mahindra Integrated Park Chennai Limited are not consolidated on a line-by-line basis, and I’ll request you to view our results with that lens.
My team has given me copious notes on commentary on the global macros as well as the sector, which with your indulgence and permission, I’m going to leave to experts on this call. Many of you know that better than I do. And I’m going to dive straight into our commentary on our performance over Q2 and H1.
In my opening comments, I’d like to touch upon seven aspects of our performance. The residential sales, our cash position and collections, completions, business development progress and outlook, our IC & IC business performance. I want to, specifically, talk about the joint venture that we announced with Actis and some comments on our sustainability journey.
So if I look back at Q2, I think we’ve had a solid if not stellar quarter. It builds on a very strong Q1. And I had mentioned at the end of Q1 on our earnings call that I do not expect the same run rate to be maintained. Q2, as you know, is a seasonally weaker quarter for residential real estate, particularly in Mumbai and Maharashtra because of the monsoons and the inauspicious period of Pitru Paksha.
Despite that, our residential sales have been extremely strong. We’ve delivered close to INR400 crores, taking H1 to just above INR1,000 crores, which is an important psychological threshold. I did tell the sales team that the difference between ending at INR990 crores and INR1,000 crores is not just INR10 crores. It’s a lot more than that. And I’m glad that they took up the challenge and were able to get us across the INR1,000 crores psychological threshold. As you might recall, the entire FY ’22, we did INR1,028 crores. So seeing with that perspective, doing INR1,000 crores in the first half sets us on a very strong footing for growth this year.
In this quarter, we launched one new project, Mahindra Nestalgia in Pune. It is very well received, just under 70% of units were sold within the quarter itself. And it’s contributed roughly 35% of the presales for residential for the quarter. The rest of the 65% is a broad-based sustenance contribution across projects, across locations. And this is a discipline that we have been maintaining and demonstrating for the last several quarters but that is a very broad-based contribution to our sustenance sales.
The other important aspect I’d like to draw your attention to is very meaningful price hikes that we’ve been able to take within quarter two. In some cases, as high as 6% to 8% within the quarter itself. And even in recent successful launches like Mahindra Eden and Luminare, which were launched in Q1, we’ve been able to take price up very quickly in the subsequent quarter in that.
We are lining up for a very strong second half of the year. We will be bringing roughly INR1,000 crores of GDV to market. This includes both new project launches as well as new phases of existing projects. To touch upon a few of them, the most important ones, we are bringing forward the second phase of Mahindra Eden. The first phase did extremely well. This has — you know as India’s first Net Zero Energy project launched in Bangalore in the first quarter. We sold about 90% of the inventory that was launched, and that has encouraged us to bring forward the second phase, which was originally planned for launch next year. And we will be bringing that to market this quarter — this weekend itself. So it starts tomorrow.
This would be followed by Mahindra Happinest Kalyan 2, which we had prelaunched in February last year. We are reactivating that and doing a full-fledged launch later this month. The third launch that is lined up — of a new phase launch that is lined up this quarter is Mahindra Happinest at MWC Chennai. Again, a very successful first phase launch where we sold out the entire inventory of 348 units within six months of its launch last year. So we are bringing the second phase, which is an equivalent — equal number of units, another 348 units to market later this quarter.
Looking further into the second half of the year, we will also be bringing our Pimpri land parcel that we acquired in April to market in the second half of this year and are hoping to launch a plotted development in Mahindra World City Chennai in the second half of this year as well. In addition to these, Mahindra Nestalgia, which, as I mentioned, was a very successful launch in Q2. We are looking at bringing the second phase to market in Q4. So all these put together gets us about INR1,000 crores of new GDV to market in H2, and this will ride on top of the sustenance sales momentum that we have been demonstrating.
Collections have been very robust, and this is, again, a good health indicator for the quality of sales that we are doing as well as the pace of construction. We have done INR550 crores of collections in H1, which gives us very strong very well for growth in terms of new land acquisitions in the quarters to come. It’s an indication that the cash cycle of the business is working very well. Residential completions in Q2 was an area, which was muted. And that explains why the revenue recognition and profit in the P&L are low.
However, H1 remained very strong. Overall revenue of INR190 crores, PAT is roughly INR68 crores. One of the completions we were expecting in Q2, which slipped into October was our project — the first tower of our project Vicino in Mumbai that we received the OC in early October. So while it’s not recognized in the Q2 financials, it will come into Q3.
Let me spend a little bit of time on business development. That’s a question that I know many of you — all of you are keenly tracking. Let me start with an announcement of a positive news. Our Thane land parcel on Ghodbundar Road, we’ve been able to get the SEZ de-notification as well as other clearances towards development over the last couple of months. So we’re now all clear in terms of planning, which we’ve already initiated. This will be a mixed-use development, and we will be looking to bring a partner in for the commercial assets within that mixed-use development. We are targeting 15 to 18 months to launch this project.
Overall, on the residential business development in the cities of Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, we continue to pursue a strong pipeline. We were expecting one deal closure in Q2, but there’s some final wrinkles that the landowner needs to iron out in terms of conditions preceding to the deal and we are hoping to be able to close this within Q3.
Overall, there’s a pipeline of roughly INR5,000 crores of GDV, of which roughly INR2,000 crores are in very advanced stages of discussion and, fingers crossed, should get converted in the next two to three quarters. The good news is none of the high-priority deals that we had kind of spoken about or indicated in the last quarter, none of them have fallen off the radar. They continue to be very much in our sights, and we’re in hold position on all of those deals.
Society redevelopment is an area that we had mentioned is going to be an area of focus for us, particularly in the Mumbai Metropolitan region. It continues to be an exciting space. We are in the final shortlist in two situations, both of which are taking longer to close, and that is the nature of the deals, unfortunately. In the society redevelopment, there are many members who weigh in on the decision. And very often, there are more reasons not to take a decision than to take a decision. We’re finding it’s taking a bit of time, but we continue to be fully focused as a management team and putting our best foot forward on those — continue to be, as I said, in a strong position. We are in the final shortlist.
Kandivali, we had intimated to the stock exchange that the closure of the deal will get pushed out from the original [Indecipherable] pick [Phonetic] at September. We are expecting it to close in the next few weeks, and everything is on track for that. There was just, again, one or two final clearances that were required from our CV [Phonetic] perspective before we can close the deal. In the meantime, we have progressed on the design. We expect to be able to submit our drawing for approval by the end of this quarter and should be able to launch the project within six months thereafter.
I also wanted to provide an update on Dahisar, which was a joint development transaction that we had announced in October last year. We have completed our schematic designs and are ready for approvals. However, there has been a stoppage of any new CCs being issued in that immediate micromarket because of a circular from the Airports Authority of India for some radar interference that they have seen because they have an airport radar which is just across from the site that we are interested in. We expect — we understand this conversation has progressed between BMC, the Maharashtra state government and the Airports Authority of India at the center, and we expect this will get resolved in the next six months, after which we will be able to submit our plans which are ready for approval.
And as I said, six months from there, we will be able to launch this. It remains a very attractive land parcel. It’s got pushed out by a few quarters from the original plan because of this aviation issue. But the silver lining is, in the meantime, the Metro line 2, which passes in front of the site has become operational, so that’s further enhanced the value of this development. And both partners, the land owner as well as us in the joint development, we’re both committed to the deal so working very closely with each other on this. There’s no concern per se, there is a delay.
Turning attention to the IC & IC business. We’ve done INR186 crores of leasing in the first half, INR68 crores in the second quarter. So we continue to maintain a strong momentum in that business as well. Jaipur continues to be the major contributor, but we do expect Chennai to come to the party in the second half. There are some interesting deals that are built up there, and we are expecting those to close in the second half of this year.
The strong lead pipeline that we have in the IC & IC business gives us confidence that we will have a good year in that business as well. You would have also perhaps picked up the news of Apple starting manufacturing at Mahindra World City, Chennai. Again, a good testament to the quality of facilities and the operations that we run at Mahindra World Cities that we deliver to get such a marquee manufacturing line to start — to set up operations.
Around a month back, we had announced a new joint venture with Actis to build specialized real estate for industrial and logistics clients. Let me touch upon the logic of this new joint venture and the role that we envisage for clients. So firstly, why did we do this deal? Build real estate for industrial and logistics is a growing asset class with very strong value-creation opportunities. There’ve been a lot of investment coming in, but we believe we are still in early days of that investment line. We see it as a strong adjacency to our existing IC & IC business. It in many ways, provides an additional leg in terms of our new service offering, but also an annuity business opportunity within that, like, segment of our business.
And MLDL is one of the few developers — organized developers or corporate developers who had a successful track record in land aggregation or acquisition for industrial and logistics. There are very few developers in India who have been able to do that. How are we setting this up? It’s going to be a separate roadmap and joint venture.
We’ve kept it separate because this is a very capital-intensive business. Actis brings strong financial capabilities and funds to the table. We’ve also kept it separate because we recognize that it requires very distinct operational capabilities from what we currently have in our IC & IC business.
And therefore, the management team will keep it separate. It will be run and our involvement will be largely through the Board rather than a direct management involvement. The other reason why this is being kept separate is this is a business that requires a lot of entrepreneurship and agility and an autonomous leadership team who are incentivized appropriately operating under Board supervision we feel is the right talent model to address this rapidly evolving market.
Why Actis and how are we setting up the partnership? We ran a very rigorous process with the help of one of the banks. And Actis emerged as the frontrunner for several reasons, their intent and appetite for this business, their track record in real estate and the trust that we built through our partnership with them in Mahindra Homes were all major factors that form the decision to partner with them in this joint venture.
We will be a minority partner. The structure of the investment will be an opco and a set of propcos. We will be a 26% partner, roughly, in that portfolio of businesses. The stake could vary between 26% to 33% in the various propcos. We’re also bringing roughly 100 acres of seed assets from our Mahindra World Cities into this joint venture.
And we’ll — that — expect the first phase of investment to be in the range of about INR2,000 crores, out of which, if you do the math, it will be about INR700 crores of equity, 26% of that is roughly INR180 crores. So if you look at bringing 100 acres of seed assets, then the total investment from MLDL side is of about INR180 crores, we are cash positive from that perspective. There’s no incremental capital being invested in this joint venture.
Finally, I wanted to share a couple of highlights and achievements on the sustainability side. As you know, this has been a very important pillar of our strategy. Over the last quarter, we’ve been ranked a global sector leader among residential developers by the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, which is GRESB. As part of that, we’ve been ranked first in public disclosure. We have a five-star rating in development benchmark and a four-star rating in standing investors. We’ve also been recognized as the Climate Change Leader in India by CDP and the only real estate company in the Leadership Band under CDP’s Climate Change category from India. These are very strong endorsements of both our intent as well as actions on the sustainability side.
Let me turn it over to Vimal to share the financial highlights.
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Hi. Good morning, everyone. Moving on to the financial highlights for the quarter end for H1 ’23, the total consolidated income stood at INR72 crores as against INR66 crores in Q2 F ’22. The consolidated profit after non-controlling interest stood at a loss of INR7.7 crores as against a profit of INR6.5 crores in Q2 F ’22. The company has debt of INR331 crores at consolidated level as per INDAS, while cash in bank balance, including short-term investments, stands at about INR203 crores. Cost of debt is 7.2% on consolidated basis, while standalone Mahindra Lifespaces cost of debt is 6.9%. With this, I’ll request if the lines can be opened up for questions, please. Thank you.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you, very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer-session. [Operator Instructions] The first question is from the line of Parikshit Kandpal from HDFC Securities Limited. Please go ahead.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Hi, everyone. Good morning and congratulations on a decent quarter. My first question is on business development. So the last two quarters from — or three quarters, our business development pipeline has been around INR5,000 crores. And since April have not seen any conversions from this pipeline. So the first question is, why is the pipeline not growing? And what is causing the delay because we have had like one lumpy quarter and, again, that was slowdown almost six, seven months. So when do we think — I mean, Q3, you said that is a period where you will see some of these closings. So how confident are you that INR2,000 crores number can be achieved and whether you can surpass that? Because the INR5,000 crores number is not moving. I would have believed that there could be some deals which could have added — would have got added in this quarter and taken this number higher. So if you can give more granularity on this? And whether the redevelopment projects are included in this? The ones you said at least due to opportunities where you are in shortlisted for kind of final closure?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Parikshit. So the way to think about the INR5,000 crores, while the number looks static, I would split it into two buckets. There’s roughly INR2,000 crores, as I mentioned, which is the advanced conversations or high probability, high priority kind of target, that has remained, more or less, stable for the last four or five months. And it’s actually the same deals that are in that pipeline. As I mentioned, we’ve not lost any of them to competitors. We continue to be in a strong position and are progressing well on this.
The back part of the INR6,000 crores, there has been some additions and deletions on that. So we feel that, as I have mentioned in the past, we’d like to be at about INR3,000 crores of GDV addition for this year. We’ve done INR1,700 crores in April. So looking to do another roughly INR1,500 crores to INR2,000 crores for the rest of the year. To get to that INR5,000 crores to INR6,000 crores pipeline is the right thing to manage. I don’t want us to be scattered and spreading ourselves too thin because I don’t want the management attention to be on conversion as much as it is on sourcing new transactions. This does not mean we are not actively scouting new transactions. But the priority as you rightly pointed out, in the last quarter, there has been no conversion, so the priority for me as well as our team is to ensure that we take some of these deals over the line in Q3 and Q4. I’m reasonably confident we will be able to do that, so I have no cause of concern.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
And the redevelopment opportunities are already included in the INR5,000 crores? They are over and above?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
No, they are part of this.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
And that is not part of the INR2,000 crores, right, which you believe is an advantage here?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
One of them is part of the INR2,000 crores.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. So my second question is on the warehousing business where you said 100 acres will be the seed assets. So you will be selling this to the joint venture and getting — realizing the money and then part of that goes to your share of equity investments, right?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
That’s right.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
And by when do you intend to transfer this 100 acres? And potentially this will be classified as a leased area. So it will happen in this financial year or next year?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
I sense that it’s going to take anywhere between two to six quarters.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. Two to six quarters. Okay. My third question is on the projects launch pipeline, which I believe is shifting by — at least for the Kandivali project we were looking at 4Q launch. So now you’re saying that December will get the approvals and six months from there we launch. So it goes to the — just about the monsoon quarter, which is again not a very good time to launch. So do you see any risk of this moving in the second half of next financial year? And the same thing for Godbundher, you were expecting to have a first half launch or maybe FY ’24 launch, now which looks to be moving to FY ’25. So if you can give some more color on the time lines, some more visibility on the time lines on these project launches?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So you’re absolutely right. We moved Kandivali from Q4 of the current financial to first half of next year. I do see it happening definitely in the first half because as I said, we’ve advanced quite well on the design. The reason for the delay is the commence got pushed out by a quarter. And that’s why the launch is getting pushed out roughly by a quarter.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
And what about Godbunder?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Godbunder again, as I said, it’s good that we finally have all the approvals we need to move forward and the permissions to move forward. We are looking at some alternate policies under which to develop it because it’s a large 68-acre land parcel. And some of those land policies are in the process of being updated at the state government level. Waiting for that clarity to come in the next quarter or so, so that we can lock in exactly what our development plan there will be. And that’s the reason we are pushing it out by a little bit because we do — the indications we have is that some of the new policies will be attractive.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. Just lastly, I mean, the real estate market you see doing well, but I don’t understand why you’ve started giving a subvention scheme for the Saki Naka projects. And are we running any other schemes or any other projects?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Sorry, Parikshit, your question wasn’t clear, your voice is getting muffled.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
The Saki Naka project, I think you started giving the subvention scheme, right? 25:25:50, so any particular reason why have you started giving that subvention scheme?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So we have some analysis — sorry, can you hear us?
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Yeah, yeah, I can hear you, Arvind.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
No, I got a beep, so I was wondering whether we got dropped off. So there’s no specific reason that we’re experimenting with different payment plans to see what kind of resonates in the market. We’ve taken price up there quite significantly since the launch. So looking at different methods and seeing what resonates with different audiences. There’s no kind of grand plan there of any sort.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. The last question for Vimal. So when do you expect — I understand that Pune land payment has happened. So just update us is anything pending there. And on the Kandivali land, when do you expect to make the payment? So Pune land payment has completely happened. Thane and Kandivali as it progress over the next three, four weeks or maybe just quarter we will make the payment. Kandivali, as you know, it is not a bullet payment, its sole agreement, its either over 36 months. We’ll follow the calendar. Okay. Sure sir. Thank you and all the best. Those are my questions.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Adhidev Chattopadhyay from ICICI Securities Limited. Please go ahead.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Yeah. Good morning, everyone. Am I audible?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, Adhidev.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Yeah. Thank you. The first thing is just more a question on the Thane land parcel now that you’ve got the de-notification done. So just could you help us understand what sort of FSI we could churn out of this land, a broad range? And overall, for this land, have you done any rough estimate or what is the total FSI premiums or other approval costs, we will need to pay to avail the full FSI of the land? If you could just share your thoughts? I know that it’s in planning stage, but just some color if you could give us. Overall, how much investment it would require? And would this approval cost you upfront or would it be split over phases? That is the first question.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. Adhidev, as I mentioned in answer to Parikshit’s question, there are some policy updates that are expected that are relevant to that development. So it’s hard to nail down an FSI, but we do look — we do see it being in the range of 5 million square feet plus of development potential. And it will be a mixed-use development, as I said. It will have some commercial assets, retail as well as residential. And we are looking at, at this stage, once the policies are fructified and our mix has narrowed down, we are looking at potentially bringing in a partner on the commercial side.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. Fine. Sir, second question again is on the business development. So the projects which we are hoping now to close out in the next two-three quarters, so what is the lead time for the launch? I think four to five quarters post that and we will in FY ’25 see the launches coming through?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I would say between three to four quarters, because some of them based on the confidence we have in the closure, we’ve already started the design on. So we will be processing in parallel. So I would say anywhere between three to four quarters to get to launch.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. Sir, last question. So again, in FY ’24, of course, the two Mumbai launches, right, have been — will happen in FY ’24, as you said. So apart from these two launches, any other large value launches we expect in FY ’24?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So some of these new land parcels, certainly, Kandivali and one or two of the new land parcels that we acquired will be the large value land launches.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Okay. And any — just again a question, any plans to give any interest subvention or anything for buyers considering that interest rates have gone up and we’ll see a further round of rate hikes in this quarter as well. So what is the resistance you’re seeing from buyers? Or is it all playing so far? And what are our plans to stimulate demand in case there is a slowdown?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So far, we are seeing demand being fairly strong and robust in the segments we are operating in. We continue to see very strong walk in as well as conversions. So no reason for us to consider interest subvention. For me an interest subvention is just a roundabout way of getting a price discount, so might as well work with pricing. And we have demonstrated a fair amount of agility on pricing. We are able to take price up quickly, the converse should also then apply that when the need arises one moderate the price to be able to drive the volume on these. So it can’t be a one-way street. So that’s primarily the lever we will use rather than going down the interest subvention part.
Again, as Parikshit highlighted, we are looking at different payment plans, more so that we learn how the market responds to various schemes, what works for different audiences in different life stages of construction as well because it’s important that what works at a prelaunch or a launch stage or early stages of construction, is not necessarily what works when the project has already topped out from a civil perspective.
Adhidev Chattopadhyay — ICICI Securities Limited — Analyst
Sure. Fine. That’s all very helpful. Thank you. That’s it from my side. All the best.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Adhidev.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Pritesh Sheth from Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Please go ahead.
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. First is again on BD. So in terms of the INR5,000 crores pipeline, does it also include any projects that maybe we are looking in Bangalore? And just a follow-up to that, so when we had this INR2,000 crores of GDV addition as an annual target, that time we had only two markets in mind, which is Mumbai and Pune. Now with Bangalore also coming in, do you expect that out of the three markets, at least there would be a deal addition in two markets that would take your targeted GDV addition to maybe INR3,000 crores, INR4,000 crores on a constant basis? So just a comment on that.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Certainly, Pritesh. I think when I had indicated the INR2000 crores, it was more than a year back and as you rightly pointed out, it was with a two market focus. So this year itself, as I had mentioned earlier, we are looking at roughly INR3,000 crores. And every year, we will look to build more on that. So it will be in the range of INR3,000 crores, INR3,500 crores, INR4,000 crores, steadily building it up year-on-year. As you know, these deals are lumpy. So it’s not that — so you could end up being at INR4,000 crores and INR3,000 crores or INR2,500 crores [Technical Issues] the each deal is typically between INR500 crores to INR1,500 crores in GDV.
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
Got it. That’s great to hear. That’s great to hear. And secondly, now if the launch is also coming fast in terms of the second phase is that we are coming up with — we are expecting even to get launched this quarter and second phase of Nestalgia also in Q4. So for the large deals that we have signed up, the Dahisar or Kandivali or even the larger Pune deal. I mean, obviously, right now, it’s difficult to comment since we haven’t seen the demand velocity. But do you think that the sales — I mean, the gap in terms of launches between the two phases could be one or two quarters so that we can churn up the inventory faster than what we have done earlier?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, that will always be the objective and the desire, Pritesh. We’ve always maintained that our strategy is to get in and get out of projects as quickly as possible. So where we see robust demand, there are two factors that play into that. One is the demand. And first launch does well, then you get confidence to bring in the second case forward. But it’s equally about the construction phasing. In certain cases, one is able to — like we are doing in Eden, we are now constructing both phases concurrently with a stagger of just two months between the two phases. But in other cases, due to the site constraint, you may not be able to bring forward the second phase or third phase of the project, in which case it makes no sense to launch something and not be able to construct it. So one has to keep both — balance between both these aspects.
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
Yeah, fair point. And just lastly, if I heard it correctly, so Pimpri second parcel, which we acquired last quarter is also slated to launch in Q4?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes.
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
So that we have pushed it earlier, is it? I think earlier we were planning to do it next year, but we have pushed it earlier?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, we pulled it forward by a quarter.
Pritesh Sheth — Motilal Oswal Financial Services — Analyst
Yeah. Okay. Thanks. That’s it from my side. All the best.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] We have the next question from the line of Shreyans Mehta from Equirus Capital. Please go ahead. Please go ahead.
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity. So my first question pertains to our Kalyan project, where we already started on a weak note. And it seems given the quarter, we see the loss in momentum. And last quarter, we were talking about some change in strategy. So just wanted to hear from you, I mean, how is it working now?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. So Shreyans, good morning. As I mentioned, that is one of the launches we’ve lined up for this quarter. Just to put this in perspective, when we say it will be weak launch, we still saw a 25% of the inventory within six months. So by industry standards, that is not weak. By our own high standards, we would have expected more. And as I mentioned in the last call, there have been some learnings about the hits and misses in that. We’ve incorporated those learnings and we will doing a full-fledged launch of that project in this quarter.
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Got it. Sir, second question pertains to our region, Ahmedabad. We had indicated that probably we are waiting for an anchor tenant. So, is it that only when — do we have any time lines in place that by this time, we are going to wait for the anchor tenant then only or how will it work?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
I’d say the next three quarters or four quarters we need to take for finding that anchor tenant. It’s really important in these kinds of parts that the initial client profile is the right client profile, and we don’t sell this for the sake of selling. So, we are being selective. We are being patient and we need to just grind it out.
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Got it. Sure. And sir, lastly, my final question is pertaining to our IC & IC business, the thought process
There was that the intention was clear that we wanted to monetize and move out of that. All said and done, probably with the deals which we’ve done, on a net basis, we’ve sold and there will be a recycling of capital. But again, it is going towards the long gestation projects — again moving to that long life cycle projects. So just wanted to understand are we still following that strategy that you want to move out of that or probably you’re moving in the same direction?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. Look, I don’t see this, Shreyans, as an either or. I see this as an interesting, as I said, extension or if you would call it an option value on that business. But at some stage, we will run out of land in that business, like we have run out in Mahindra World City, Chennai, the land inventory is all sold. So, what is the terminal value of this business is important for us to set up right now. One part of that terminal value will be operation and maintenance activity we do in the parks.
But there are other sources of value that one can unlock over a longer period of time is what prompted the thinking to participate in this. As I said, we are participating as a minority joint venture partner. And in a sense, not putting incremental capital into this new joint venture, but I do see it as a strategically important action for us, not just as an opportunistic play.
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Got it. So can we expect some sort of, I mean this thing to continue ahead as well or probably this would be one-off deals and probably our long-term strategy still remains of monetizing in the IC & IC business?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So certainly, in the industrial parks that we’re already operating, we would be looking to monetize as quickly as possible and like the park piece is on, that’s what the numbers are demonstrating. Now how this new business segment plays out, time will tell. We’ll be fully committed to executing, it if it turns out to be as attractive as it promises to be in terms of the actual cash flows and return on capital or IRR metrics that are very important to us. We will take a call in that stage about how much whether we want to invest in incremental capital on that. At this stage, we will not, as I mentioned, increase the capital, it is a capital value fairly release from the business as it is getting — a part of which is getting put back.
Shreyans Mehta — Equirus Capital — Analyst
Got it. Thank you so much and all the best. Thank you.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. We have a follow-up question from the line of Parikshit Kandpal from HDFC Securities. Please go ahead.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
My question is that over the last couple of years, we have been outperforming on the business development. So this year also we may end up somewhere close to INR4,000 crores. Just doing the 1H presales projections into — at the same run rate into H2, we do exceed about INR2,000 crores of presales. It things are favorable we may reach almost INR2,300 crores, INR2,400 crores, much ahead of your timeline of FY ’25. Next year, we have a very strong launch pipeline on the starting put together, Dahisar and Kandivali close to about INR4,000 crores of GDV, which may really get in phases, but along with the sustaining sales can help us reach my estimate number about INR3,000 crores. So how are you planning on the business development side from here on, because numbers looks to be growing better than expectations the next couple of years. So we need to ramp up on the BD side from the INR4,000 crores number to launch ’25 going to INR4,000 crores to INR10,000. So how are we geared up internally as an organization as the business development team and the execution and
Marketing. So if you can just give your thoughts there?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So Parikshit, firstly, trust you to always take the upper end of any range that I mentioned. So I do want to reiterate that this year we are looking at INR3,000 crores GDV and not INR4,000 crores. I mentioned that because it’s lumpy one to end up in INR2,500 crores to INR4,000 crores. And on your comment on presale, yes, first half this has been INR1,000 crores. I don’t expect it to double for the second half. So, don’t do arithmetic summation. The deeper question
You’ve asked about how we are gearing up the business development is important. We’ve actually added strategically to our team, certain very key capabilities particularly one on society development, as I mentioned that it’s a different kettle of fish, and we brought somebody on board in the team who’s done that for the lifetime, understands it very well. And a lot of the success we are seeing advance conversations we are on is credit to this new addition to the team. Similarly, on the stressed asset side, we’ve added a person who has experience in that space. We currently still don’t have any advanced conversations on that space. So we are actively looking at, but those are very strategic additions to the team.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
But what about your guidance? I think last time also I asked this question, so at some point of time to revise that FY ’25 guidance, which looks to be getting achieved much ahead of time?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So, I honestly, I’m not being coyed or deliberately roundabout on this, but we do need to see closures on the business development side for us to revise that guideline. So I hold until that happens.
Parikshit Kandpal — HDFC Securities Limited — Analyst
And just on the Bangalore side…
Operator
Sorry to interrupt Mr. Kandpal, there are many other participants who are waiting for their turn. Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Amit Agarwal from Burman Capital Management. Please go ahead.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Yeah, thank you for the opportunity. This is for Vimal. So Vimal, in the last four quarters, in the residential, we have booked around INR566 crores of revenue and against that cost of sale is INR520 crores. Just wanted to understand what all costs we included in cost of sales and implied gross margin is 7.4, which is a bit different from the number that we typically give out. So if you can just help us reconcile those numbers?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
So Amit, at a broader level, usually gross margin will include all the direct costs including prepaid expenses like brokerage, etc. See, it’s important to, in a way, understand this last two quarters, the completions have been sort of very — maybe the last phase or the last building or the last tower. And to this extent, the gross margins are lower than what we expect it to be. The other thing really is that for example, this thing in our Nagpur project, we have taken one charge which is related to royalty payout which the local authority demanded, which we have gone ahead, paid, taken charge. But we will also been, the payment is under protest base, so we will be thinking first to recover it. So at an aggregate level, you will see improvement in margins from thereon as and when the newer projects gets completed, it should be much-much larger in terms of top line as well.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Got it. And on that front, right, so on the projects that are in the pipeline and future development, the number that we gave out is around INR10,600 is the revenue that we expect from those projects. And against that, there is a cost which you have given out expected. Can you also help out with the cost that is already incurred for the projects that are in pipeline, everything combined in the residential side?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, sure. You can refer it to back to the investor presentation actually. There is a slide which talks about three parts. One is what’s happened in our already launched projects. What’s happening in the next phase of those launched products. And for the projects, which will come up for launch for which land acquisition has happened. It’s a fairly neat and clean chart, it has got four parts and talks about inflows outflows and net cash. Amit if you refer to that, we will gain about INR3,500 crores of net cash positive. Let me know in case you need any further clarification or details around it.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
On that, so total revenue is around INR10,600 crores against that cost of INR5,700 crores which are expected to be incurred. I’m asking what is the cost which is already incurred against this INR10,600 crores revenue, which is expected to recognize in coming years?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So look at it this way, that projects which have got launched, usually see our marketing costs anywhere between say, 2% to 4%, and that’s something which has reflected in the quarter in which those launches would have happened or those sales would have got booked.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
And what about land and the construction cost, which would be part of inventory for us?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes, it will be part of inventory, but you would have — if you refer back to two calls, which has happened in the past, say, three, four quarters, usually our land payouts at times actually are very close to the launch. But whatever clients will do if the project is launched and conveyance has happened that’s the time a project moves into inventory. Just to give you an example, Kalyan project, launch had happened in say, March, February or March of this calendar year, conveyance actually happened a couple of months after that. And to that extent, the monetization will reflect in quarter one of this financial year and not in the last financial year.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Maybe I’ll connect with you offline to better understand. Just last question on this is from last quarter to this quarter, we saw a decline of around INR500 crores on the future gross cash flow, right. Whereas the collection was lower than that and also the construction payment would have happened in Q2. So just if you can help us understand why there was a decline of around INR500 crores on the gross cash flow expectation?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes, let’s take this at offline, Amit. I’ll be able to help you understand that.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Okay great sir, just last, if I can squeeze in. Our construction payout is lower than the pre-COVID, right. So it was around INR75 crores. Previously, we used to do about INR100 crores. Is that in a way, a reflection of slower construction pace. Again, how should we read out that construction outflow number?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So see, fundamentally, our focus really is on cash collection and therefore, more than the work done, the money spent on work done is focused on what action we need to take so that our collection and the demand can be dealt out. And that’s where you are seeing the collection numbers looking very strong. A lower work done cost need not necessarily reflect a lower work done of lower demands or lower progress in a particular project. It really depends on the life stage of
The project at which we are investing that money as well.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Also, Amit, I’ll just add, Q2, again, because of monsoon, you will see every Q2 being slightly lower from a construction activity perspective. There is an impact of that.
Amit Agarwal — Burman Capital Management — Analyst
Got it. Thank you so much and best of luck.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Himanshu Upadhyay from O3 Capital. Please go ahead.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Hi. Congratulations on good set of numbers. I have two questions. One was on the IC business, okay. One was on the leased area, okay. We’ve seen pretty — the growth has slowed down from last year. What is the buildup of or inquiry levels you are seeing and what is expected once the economy starts opening a lot more conversions to happen, okay. Some thoughts on that, if you can give on IC and level of inquiries and what is happening there?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
No, I think IC is on a very strong footing. I would encourage you, don’t look at it necessarily quarter-on-quarter because these are long sale cycle businesses. So look at kind of trailing — or a moving average of fourth quarters or something like that. So that would be more representative. We are on a very solid growth trajectory there. Last year itself was a record growth on a record leasing in our IC business. This year, we will look to match or exceed that.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Okay. And one thing is what are the corporate costs overall for the company. Just to understand what is our recurring revenue, which you need to have to break even on the residential side?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So it’s a tough one. And frankly, again it is a number which will really depend on the projects which are getting signed up and launched. What we usually — we usually look at next five years horizon and therefore, allocation of the fixed cost over those five years, assuming that they follow a second trajectory. For example, If you look at recent guidance of INR2,500 crores versus INR700 crores we were averaging till about FY ’20. The overhead cost allocation would have gone in a much more sort of higher base, and therefore, it looks much more — much better. So that’s the allocation approach that we follow.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
And one more thing. When we see the gross margin, which is 7%, even if I add 2%, 3% or 4%, let’s say, of sales cost and some amount of other overhead, it remains very low, okay. So would you say that the revenue or the realizations were low or do you think the cost increase has been pretty phenomenal and hence the gross margins are pretty low. What would be the reason because 10%, 11% is still, if I took whatever cost…
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
I’ll just give you one example, its, well it’s a combination of two or three factors. But an important one, for example, is Anthea project, there’s a last phase at come up for recognition. Anthea is a large project and spread across 20 acres. If I have to look at the profitability of Anthea project across the life cycle it should certainly be in the range of, say, 20% gross margin. By the last phase, because of few cost which gets lockdown at last stage, you get to see a much lower number. But at overall level, what Adhidev was talking about was taking the pricing up on an ongoing basis and netting of the cost aspirations, which we were seeing till about a quarter back. All of those put together, all our projects, which right now are in various stages are at a decent margin which are definitely [Indecipherable].
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Okay. And this leasing of — or outright sale of land, is it for residential in IC we have spoken or it was for, let’s say, industrial land, what we are trying to sell? I’m just confused, if you can help me out?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Look, we were referring to leasing.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Yes.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
We were referring to leasing an industrial.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Okay, so you are saying that sales also your thinking of from land?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
This is leasing in the industrial parks business, Himanshu.
Himanshu Upadhyay — O3 Capital — Analyst
Okay. Thank you so much.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Manan Patel from Airavat Capital. Please go ahead.
Manan Patel — Airavat Capital — Analyst
Congratulations for the good numbers. Sir, my first question is on MWC Jaipur. So if I look at the numbers, we have been very well in the domestic segment, but SEZ is sort of being much slower. So with the current pace that we are going, we might exhaust the domestic part in next few quarters and then SEZ might be left. So you also referred to some policy change which might happen. So what are your thoughts on this?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. That there has been a much stronger demand on the domestic tariff area than the SEZ. But this is not peculiar to Jaipur or Mahindra World City. This is what is happening across the country. And it’s an outcome of the sunset of various incentives that have been
Given to SEZ 10 or 15 years back. So, across the country, there has been a very muted demand for SEZs. The government has also recognized that and proposed what is called the Desh bill, which was expected to be tabled in the monsoon session. We are hoping will come in either in the monsoon or winter session of the budget.
What the basic premise for this bill is to say that rather than think about industrial parks, domestic corridor export, if India wants to be self-sufficient from a manufacturing perspective and be a manufacturing powerhouse, we should allow units to operate flexibly. So they will allow units in the Special Economic Zones to also cater to the domestic market. So in that sense, specifically coming back into specifically to Jaipur, it opens up the entire SEZ area for domestic manufacturing plants as well, and that will be a very healthy upside for us.
Manan Patel — Airavat Capital — Analyst
Okay. That’s helpful, sir. Sir, second question is on the margin and the IRRs that we think. So like, for example, in Eden, we have like preponed the launch of second phase. So with that, do we take the exposure of, like higher exposure to the commodity fluctuations down the line because we
Are like selling a lot more upfront rather than waiting for a part of it at the later date. So are we exposing ourselves to the commodity fluctuations and what are the steps that we take to sort of offset?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. So that’s great point Manan. So the downside of selling a lot upfront is exactly where you are locked into, fixed-price contracts with your customers but exposed to an inflating cost is on the input side. Therefore, in a roughly stable or moderate inflationary cost environment, it always makes sense to sell early. If one expects a hyperinflation in the cost environment, then holding back some inventory with the expectation that we’ll be able to price that up would be a better strategy. We believe that we are not yet in that — the last four quarters, five quarters, we see hyperinflationary period, but it has settled down and we are expecting the next couple of years to be more range bound from an input cost perspective. So we continue to pursue the strategy of selling early. It is certainly, IRR accretive. In some cases, there is a trade-off there between getting more IRR and sacrificing a couple of 10 basis points or more of PBIT, but that’s the tradeoff were willing to make.
Manan Patel — Airavat Capital — Analyst
Okay. And sir, the last part, you referred to value engineering that we are doing, like we are on the journey, so where are — like have we implemented that which can help our margins by a few percentage points that you have referred in the past?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, absolutely. And I’ll ask Vimal to also add on this, but in fact, all of our the entire leadership teams are taking this call from one of our construction site this morning. I’ve been here since 8:30 in the morning exactly on this topic. So we are spending a lot of time on standardizing design, value engineering, driving modularity, applicability, all of which is geared towards driving more cost efficiency. But Vimal, would you like to add something?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
The only impact versus the earlier approach where the action on productivity or value engineering was more localized, or project specific, right now, we have got two centers which have been formed, one which is the costing center of excellence and second is project management center. Both these work hand-in-hand and any best practices or leading practices which has picked up either internally from many of our projects or externally from any of the other projects with contractors, vendors etc, attempt is to do a pilot and then horizontally execute it across project. Therefore value engineering is going to be one of key pillars to drive some profits or to ensure that the costs are not going out of range.
Manan Patel — Airavat Capital — Analyst
Great sir. Thank you and wish you all the best.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Prem Khurana from Anand Rathi. Please go ahead.
Prem Khurana — Anand Rathi — Analyst
Yeah. Thank you for taking my questions sir and congratulations on good operations in Q2. So my question was with respect to…
Operator
Sorry to interrupt, I would request you to keep your mic farer from your mouth and speak please.
Prem Khurana — Anand Rathi — Analyst
Yeah, sure. Is it better now?
Operator
Yes, please proceed.
Prem Khurana — Anand Rathi — Analyst
Yeah, sure. So my question with respect to our IC & IC vertical. So what I see is, we’ve been doing seriously good now in terms of leasing on an incremental basis. But the things that I observed that, I mean, when I look at total number of customers that you have and look at the operational customers that you have, I mean, I think initially we used to have this condition in our contracts with the clients that you would have to come and check operations in a year, 1.5 years.
I mean, the customer would start contributing early as possible, but the gap between our operational customer and total customers seems to be rising, for Jaipur, we have 127-odd customers, but then only 71 are operational. There is 56-odd customers are yet to start contributing, right.
So I understand if you would have realized our payments but then the idea was to kind of make them operational and then make them contribute to the economic value that you would be able to generate from this place. So have we have made any changes in the contracts that we signed because some of these customers have been with us for more than two to three years now and are yet to commence operation in this the case with Chennai as well wherein the more
Than 10-odd [Indecipherable] to kind of commence operations?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
That’s a good observation. In Jaipur in particular, given the growth we’ve seen over the last four quarters to five quarters, its probably 30 or so new clients, what have we added, so one has to factor that in because once they lease the land, it will take them roughly 12 to 18 months to get operation even if they hit the ground on day one. But that backlog is an important thing, and we are actually in the process of reaching out to many of the clients who are not yet operationalized like you mentioned, some of the older leases that were done and finding out what the bottlenecks are trying to reactivate those. So those conversations are actually already underway. In fact in Jaipur there is something like 26 clients have hold who have already commenced construction.
Prem Khurana — Anand Rathi — Analyst
Okay. That’s good. And second one was for Vimal sir. I think when I look at our presentation and the net debt number that you gave on a segment-wise basis, in — I see that in IC & IC vertical, the debt has gone up not by much, but then there’s a slight rise. So, I was wondering if it is because when we are aggregating more in IC & IC vertical either in, let’s say, north Chennai or
In Pune, which is why the number would have gone up or is only a timing mismatch and wherein you’ve sold some inventory this quarter but the payment are yet to come to you?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Actually, the second is the key. And we do have a few transactions, as we mentioned in pipeline. And we will see a positive movement in these numbers by the time we reach the next one. Part of it, the first point that you said is also right that there was a big aggregation, which may come on the South Chennai side as well apart from Pune, both are going. But there is more, I’ll say
More timing, and you’ll see the movement Q3 or Q4 for this. Sure sir. Thank you that’s it from my end. Thanks and all the very best for future.
Operator
Thank you. We have the next question from the line of Jainam Shah from Equirus Securities Private Limited. Please go ahead.
Jainam Shah — Equirus Securities Private Limited — Analyst
Hi sir, thanks for the opportunity. Sir, my question relates to more of a strategic purpose of Mahindra Lifespace. So, we have been saying that the proportion of value homes has been consistently declining in our overall portfolio. So sir, how we are strategizing between value homes and mid-premium houses and what is the breakup of this INR5,000 crores of BD pipeline into these two parts?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
So, Jainam, there’s no predefined kind of quota that we have between the value homes and the mid-market segment. We do what is right for a particular land parcel. In some cases, particularly in cities like Pune and Bangalore, the same location could be developed as a Happinest product or as a mid-market product, because that’s the nature of those markets. In a city like Mumbai, it tends to be geographically kind of aligned with North to South. As you go further North, it is more Happinest, as you move further. We are not in extreme South Mumbai, but let’s say, the Western Suburbs or Central Suburbs, it tends to get with midmarket environment. So we don’t approach this as what should the mix be in the market. We just look at every land opportunity that we have, every new project that we are exploring, what is the right product and the right audience. So it’s an outcome rather than an input.
Jainam Shah — Equirus Securities Private Limited — Analyst
Okay sir. Got it. And sir, one question related to IC & IC segment. So we have been seeing the realization being in the similar range of INR2.7crores or INR2.8 crores for the Jaipur, and around INR3 crores for Chennai. Sir, is there any specific reason for the same and are we expecting some kind of increase year-over-year from this realization per acre?
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
We’ve actually taken the realization up in Jaipur. If you look at the last few quarters, it has gone up from — Vimal?
Vimal Agarwal — Chief Financial Officer
Yes, I just start with Jaipur, the realization has improved for the last few years. I think it’s up almost by about 7% to 10%. Having said that, every land parcel has got a bit of positive or negative depending on the location we are talking about in Jaipur and so that’s why we see this. Similarly, in Chennai there is not much inventory left, within some commercial — largely commercial
Which is there. And every acre there has to be negotiating depending on the location. But in general, the realizations are up, certainly for both margin are good.
Jainam Shah — Equirus Securities Private Limited — Analyst
Okay sir. Got it. That’s it from my side.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as there are no further questions. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Arvind Subramanian for closing comments.
Arvind Subramanian — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you [Indecipherable] and thank you for all your active participation and your questions. As we had highlighted there are multiple actions lined-up for the second half of this year which includes ensures successful new launches, new phase launches as well as continued momentum on the IC & IC business. We are also extremely focused on driving the business well. We continue to be sharpshooting on that rather than spring and bring. And you will see hopefully some conversions in Q3 and Q4. Thank you, everyone, and appreciate your support. [Operator Closing Remarks]
Operator
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