Property forms part of Rajeev Khandelwal’s family-office background, while housing appears in his African public-infrastructure experience. Their intersection brings location into the essential-service conversation. A home’s affordability and usefulness depend partly on the journeys and services around it, making transport and access to employment relevant to the development’s long-term customer proposition as well as to the price of the building itself.
Travel is a recurring household cost
Residents may save on housing while spending more time or money reaching work and everyday services. A development assessment should consider those effects when defining its intended market. This gives the demand discussion a more realistic basis than comparing property prices alone. It also helps explain why a location’s value can depend on connections that lie outside the development boundary but remain central to the daily experience of the people living there.
Infrastructure timing affects occupation
A project may be physically ready before supporting routes or services are established. That gap can influence the experience of early residents and the pace of occupation. Rajeev’s project-finance background is relevant to coordinating dependencies across different organizations. The commercial plan benefits from a clear understanding of which external arrangements are already available, which are developing and how their timing affects the housing proposition offered to prospective residents or institutional partners.
The customer proposition should be complete
Marketing a development through space and finishes alone can overlook practical factors that determine whether people can sustain living there. Access to schools, services and work can influence the fit between the project and its intended users. These considerations make customer understanding part of infrastructure investment. A coherent proposition explains how the location supports ordinary life rather than relying solely on the visual appeal or nominal affordability of the physical development.
A wider property perspective
The connection between Rajeev’s enterprise and PPP experience helps frame housing as part of a functioning place. Partners can examine the development and its transport relationships together, with recurring household costs considered alongside initial capital and property economics. That creates a fuller account of demand and public value. The investment case becomes more grounded when the home is understood within the network of journeys and services that residents will rely upon throughout their occupation.
