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Our Businesses

Our Businesses

Real estate, hospitality and principal investment

Diversified businesses, one long-term approach

Our businesses span real estate, hospitality and principal investment. They share a single approach: to build and hold quality assets for the long term.

Each business grew from the one before it. Restaurants led to property, property to development, and the strength of both gave us the capital to invest more widely.

Today they are run by their own management teams and supported by the family’s long-term capital, deep local knowledge and long-established relationships.

Real Estate & Urban Development Hospitality Principal Investments

Real Estate & Urban Development

Land assembly and development in Mumbai, one of the world’s most demanding real estate markets.

Our owners are among the promoters of Valor Estate Limited, a leading Mumbai developer with a land bank of more than 570 acres in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Alongside it, UBF holds its own portfolio of real estate investments, developed and held for the long term.

Real Estate & Urban Development
570+

Acres, Valor Estate

Four

Generations

Hospitality

Luxury and upper-upscale hotels, developed with leading international operators and held for the long term.

Our owners are among the promoters of Advent Hotels International Limited, whose portfolio includes the Grand Hyatt Goa and the Hilton Mumbai International Airport.

UBF also owns and operates hotels independently of Advent, continuing a family involvement in hospitality that began in 1903.

Hospitality
1903

Since

Three

Cities

Principal Investments

Direct investments made with the family’s own capital, across India and the Gulf.

We invest directly in businesses and assets where our experience, relationships and long-term capital can add value.

Our investments are concentrated, taken with a long horizon, and made in sectors we understand.

Principal Investments
Own

Capital