The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL) is a Mumbai-headquartered plotted land developer founded in 2020 by Abhinandan Lodha. Since its founding, the company has expanded from an initial focus on the Konkan coast to a portfolio spanning 16 locations across Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh — including Alibaug, Ayodhya, Dapoli, Khopoli, Nagpur, Shimla, and Vrindavan. As of 2024, HoABL reported 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. In January 2023, the company announced a ₹11,000 crore capital expenditure plan to be deployed over four years, and later that year formed a joint venture with HDFC Capital Advisors to invest ₹1,500 crore in plotted and low-rise developments across India.
Neral sits at one of the earliest and most deliberate chapters in that geographic story. HoABL's Celebration Land project — now in its Jumbo Land Collection phase — is sited at Survey No. 81, Village Pimploli BK, near the Shilar River, Taluka Karjat, Raigad, PIN-410201. Pimploli BK is a village locality within the Neral region, flanked on one side by the Matheran Eco-Sensitive Zone and on the other by the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary — a green corridor the developer has made central to the project's identity.
HoABL has launched the Jumbo Land Collection as the current offering within its broader 100+ acre Celebration Land estate at the Matheran Foothills. The Jumbo plots are larger than the earlier tranches, starting from 371.61 square metres (4,000 sq ft), priced from ₹1.25 crore. Earlier inventory within the same Celebration Land estate started from approximately 1,507 sq ft at ₹54.99 lakh onwards, giving the overall project a range that has tracked upward as successive collections have been introduced.
The Celebration Land Gold tier, which sits within the same 100+ acre estate, offers an Insignia Collection of plots with views of the Shilar river on one side, Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary on a second elevation, and a Clubhouse on the third. HoABL's official description of Neral as "India's first blue zone development" references the concept of a lifestyle environment structured around longevity and low-stress living — a positioning that the developer deploys specifically at this site and no other in its current portfolio.
The project carries MahaRERA registration numbers P52000045544 and P52000045546, with a separate MahaRERA number P52000046039 cited for the Celebration Land Gold component. All land parcels undergo HoABL's documented multi-level legal due diligence process, with fully digital transaction execution — a model the company applies uniformly across its portfolio.
The on-site amenity programme covers over 40 curated facilities across leisure, recreation, and wellness zones. These include an equestrian ground, rock climbing, a jogging and cycling track, riverside camping, a community organic garden, archery, a yoga and meditation zone, a multipurpose court, a kids' play area, sand pit, and land zorbing, among others. The planning architect engaged for the estate is Broadway Malyan, the London-headquartered firm with a global portfolio of masterplanned communities.
Pimploli BK sits within one of the most constrained development corridors in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The Matheran Eco-Sensitive Zone covers 214 sq km and prohibits all industrial, vehicular, and new developmental activity within its boundary — a permanent constraint that protects the character of land immediately adjacent to it, including Pimploli BK. On the opposite flank, the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary extends a second protected buffer. The result is a corridor where the supply of developable, legally clear land is structurally finite.
The region is also part of the Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots. Matheran itself carries an annual mean temperature of 23.2°C and mean annual rainfall of 4,073 mm, which sustains the forested hillslopes and valley ecosystems that define the area visually. Neral has been declared an Industrial Free Zone given its proximity to both the Matheran Eco-Sensitive Zone and Bhimashankar Hills — a designation that further limits competing industrial land use.
Connectivity from the site is multi-modal. Neral Junction railway station, a major junction for services from both Mumbai and Pune on the Central Railway network, is approximately 15 minutes from the project. Shelu Railway Station on the central suburban line sits about 20 minutes away. By road, State Highway 79 connects the area to the Karjat–Neral Road and onward to Mumbai, as well as to NH-4 toward Pune and the Karjat–Murbad Road. The project sits approximately two hours from South Mumbai and two hours from Pune.
The macro story behind HoABL's sustained commitment to the Neral micro-market is a convergence of several large-scale infrastructure programmes now in various stages of approval and construction. Real estate research firm Liases Foras has described Neral as representing "such an inflection point for Mumbai 3.0, where large-scale infrastructure investments, proximity to emerging employment hubs and a balanced development ecosystem are coming together to create a differentiated residential market opportunity."
The headline infrastructure items include:
HoABL has cited a cumulative ₹83,000 crore of project investment lined up across these infrastructure programmes as a structural argument for Neral's land value trajectory. Independent research estimates suggest Neral's land values could appreciate 5x over the next decade as these infrastructure drivers mature, with premium villa rental yields also cited as a potential income layer.
From an air quality standpoint, Neral's AQI levels of approximately 75 compare with Mumbai's 150+ and Delhi's 500+ — a concrete, measurable differentiator for buyers evaluating long-term second-home or retirement-oriented acquisitions.
Buyers evaluating HoABL at Pimploli BK are buying from a developer whose geographic confidence in the MMR coastal and hill belt is longstanding. The company's Maharashtra portfolio spans Alibaug (Sol de Alibaug, a 100-acre coastal development), Anjarle, Dapoli, Khopoli (a 50-acre plotted development 40 minutes from Navi Mumbai International Airport), and Nagpur, in addition to Neral. The company has also formed a joint venture with Mittal Builders for an 11-acre township in MMR, representing a move into vertical housing through its Growth Housing initiative.
Institutionally, the HDFC Capital Advisors joint venture — investing ₹1,500 crore in plotted and low-rise developments — and the Leela Palaces partnership for a hotel in Ayodhya indicate the calibre of institutional relationships HoABL has assembled since 2020. The company operates an entirely digital transaction model: from virtual site tours and document verification through to possession, with no requirement for physical branch visits.
For a buyer at Pimploli BK, the relevant comparison point within HoABL's own portfolio is that Neral represents the developer's longest-running active land estate in Maharashtra, across multiple successive collections — from the original Celebration Land to Celebration Land Gold to the current Jumbo Land Collection. That phased, multi-tranche structure, with prices moving upward across tranches, is the clearest available signal of how the developer itself reads long-term demand in this micro-market.
