I have spent years buying the same land. I’d do it again.
There is a piece of land I spent nearly a decade chasing.
Nine years just to assemble the land.
I spent years working with landowners one by one, because every plot was essential to completing the larger land assembly. A few said no so many times that we simply had to wait until life changed their minds
If you measure success by speed, this project made very little sense.
➡️ But I wasn’t looking at what the land was. I was looking at what the entire region was becoming.
The future ecosystem around that land was stronger than what existed on the ground at that moment.
I had seen what happens when infrastructure catches a corridor that nobody is watching yet.
The land that looked totally worthless today might become the fight over things in a region by the next 10 years.
I had seen it enough times during my early consulting years to trust it completely, even when nothing around me confirmed it yet.
So, we kept going.
Some owners took two years of conversation before they were ready. One family had a dispute that had to resolve itself before we could even sit at a table. We waited. We came back. We stayed respectful and patient when the easier thing would have been to walk away and find a cleaner deal somewhere else.
Most investors I’ve watched over the years rejected land in emerging corridors because it looked “too early.”
➡️ The challenge is that most investors feel comfortable only after transformation becomes visible.
They want proof & certainty. They want to see the future before it arrives.
By then, the biggest phase of value creation is usually over.
Some of them continued to convince themselves that they were being “smart and cautious” by ignoring these sites. Then they returned 5 or 10 years later at prices that had already passed the wealth development stage.
It did not take 9 years because it was complicated.
It took 9 years because things worth building usually do.
Nine years. Worth every single day 😊
– Ramanan
