The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL) is a Mumbai-headquartered real estate company founded in 2020 by Abhinandan Lodha, developing residential plotted land projects. As of 2024, it reported operations across 16 locations in India, including Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. The company's HoABL Lonavala Plotted Development places the Mumbai-Pune hill corridor inside a portfolio that initially focused on land developments in the Konkan region of Maharashtra before expanding its land holdings into Goa and North India, including a 51-acre acquisition in Ayodhya.
Abhinandan Lodha is the younger son of Mangal Prabhat Lodha, founder of the Lodha Group, while his elder brother Abhishek Lodha runs the BSE-listed Macrotech Developers, with Abhinandan building a separate, land-focused business. That distinction matters for a Lonavala buyer: HoABL's model is not built around apartment towers but around branded, pre-approved land parcels in destinations with recognisable weekend or long-term demand. In January 2023, the company announced a capital expenditure plan of ₹11,000 crore to be deployed over a four-year period, and by 2024 it had a portfolio of over 1,000 acres of plotted developments, with 13 million square feet of land sold and an additional 34 million square feet in the development pipeline.
Across its projects, HoABL positions its offering around legal clarity and ready infrastructure rather than lifestyle marketing alone. Every land parcel offered undergoes rigorous legal due diligence, and projects are RERA-registered with customers receiving complete legal documentation. At Lonavala, this translates into plots that arrive with basic services already in place rather than raw, undeveloped land: plots are laid out in different sizes with water and electricity lines already built in, letting a buyer plan construction on a serviced site inside a gated layout rather than negotiating utility connections independently.
HoABL's other Maharashtra land bets sit along infrastructure-linked corridors — a 50-acre landmark plotted development 40 minutes from the Navi Mumbai International Airport, coastal parcels in Alibaug and Dapoli, and a blue-zone community at Neral. Lonavala extends that logic to Maharashtra's most established weekend-home market. The town sits on a stretch where the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the Mumbai-Pune national highway both pass through, and where Lonavala is about 64 km west of Pune and 96 km east of Mumbai — a distance short enough for both cities to treat it as their default second-home destination rather than an occasional getaway.
A branded-land developer stakes part of its pitch on how a location gets built out, and Lonavala's connectivity story is moving in HoABL's favour. The Missing Link tunnel near Lonavala is at an advanced stage of completion and will cut another 20–25 minutes off the drive once operational, following a ghat bypass designed specifically to ease the Mumbai-Pune run. The town is also a major stop on the railway line connecting Mumbai and Pune, giving it a rail option that most competing hill-station markets lack. For a buyer commuting from South Mumbai, market reporting places drive time from Bandra-Kurla Complex at approximately two hours and fifteen minutes off-peak, and under ninety minutes from Pune's Koregaon Park or Kalyani Nagar.
Lonavala's economy has long run on weekend and holiday traffic rather than local industry, which is precisely the demand base HoABL's plotted-land model depends on. Lonavala and the adjacent Khandala are twin hill stations 622 metres above sea level, in the Sahyadri ranges that demarcate the Deccan Plateau and the Konkan coast, and tourism peaks during the monsoon season. Attractions within a short drive include the Karla and Bhaja caves, Della Adventure Park, and Tungarli Lake, feeding a steady flow of weekend visitors that has historically translated into land and villa demand rather than just hotel occupancy. Industry coverage of the wider corridor notes that Lonavala operates at the premium end, with villa communities and plotted developments drawing HNI and NRI buyers seeking capital preservation in a supply-constrained setting.
Land and villa pricing in Lonavala varies sharply by pocket and proximity to the expressway. Reported ranges for developed residential plots in gated townships currently sit between ₹3,500–₹8,500 per sq.ft. depending on the view and proximity to the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, while luxury villa prices typically range from ₹12,000–₹22,000 per sq.ft. Independent market reports on the town's upper segment describe average appreciation rates of 12-15% annually over the past five years in Lonavala's premium property bracket, a trend attributed largely to constrained developable land and consistent second-home demand from Mumbai and Pune.
For owners planning longer stays rather than pure weekend use, the town already carries municipal-level infrastructure rather than a purely resort character. Lonavala has established retail and mall presence, along with schools, colleges, and hospitals including Sanjeevani Hospital Multispeciality and Kalpataru Hospital. This everyday infrastructure sits alongside the tourism economy, giving a HoABL plot owner both weekend-destination amenities and the basic services needed for extended or year-round stays.
Buyers evaluating the Lonavala plotted development are, in effect, buying into a company still expanding its land bank nationally. Beyond Maharashtra's Konkan coast, HoABL has moved into Amritsar, Khopoli near Mumbai, Nagpur, Shimla, Varanasi, and Vrindavan, and in 2023 it formed a joint venture with HDFC Capital Advisors, investing ₹1,500 crore in plotted and low-rise developments across India. Lonavala's addition sits within that same expansion logic — a land-first developer adding a well-established, infrastructure-linked hill destination to a portfolio otherwise weighted toward coastal Maharashtra, Goa, and North India.
