Serviced-apartment specialist SilverDoor reports a surge in corporate enquiries for emerging Indian business centres—Guwahati, Noida, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram and Coimbatore—following the Union Budget 2026-27 and a recent US tariff reduction on Indian goods. The trend, highlighted in Relocate Magazine on 9 February, suggests multinational firms are widening their location strategy beyond Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.(relocatemagazine.com)
Budget measures that earmark spending for high-speed rail corridors and MSME support are expected to improve connectivity and supplier ecosystems in secondary markets. According to SilverDoor’s regional head, enquiry volumes for tier-2 cities have doubled year-on-year, with pharma, IT-services and BFSI clients leading demand.
VisaHQ can also smooth the path for companies eyeing these new destinations: its online platform lets mobility teams arrange business visas, e-visas and document legalisation for India in one place, track status updates in real time and receive country-specific compliance alerts—services that become even more valuable when assignees are heading to less familiar cities like Guwahati or Thiruvananthapuram. Learn more at https://www.visahq.com/india/
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For mobility managers the development raises two flags: accommodation inventory is thinner in tertiary cities, making early booking essential, and duty-of-care protocols may need tailoring for destinations with less developed healthcare infrastructure.
Relocation consultants also point to cost advantages—serviced apartments in Lucknow average 35 per cent below Pune equivalents—which could help companies stretch assignment budgets while providing employees with larger living spaces.
Experts advise updating preferred-supplier lists to include vetted housing and ground-transport providers in the newly popular cities and to review hardship and COLA differentials as facilities improve.
Budget measures that earmark spending for high-speed rail corridors and MSME support are expected to improve connectivity and supplier ecosystems in secondary markets. According to SilverDoor’s regional head, enquiry volumes for tier-2 cities have doubled year-on-year, with pharma, IT-services and BFSI clients leading demand.
VisaHQ can also smooth the path for companies eyeing these new destinations: its online platform lets mobility teams arrange business visas, e-visas and document legalisation for India in one place, track status updates in real time and receive country-specific compliance alerts—services that become even more valuable when assignees are heading to less familiar cities like Guwahati or Thiruvananthapuram. Learn more at https://www.visahq.com/india/
For mobility managers the development raises two flags: accommodation inventory is thinner in tertiary cities, making early booking essential, and duty-of-care protocols may need tailoring for destinations with less developed healthcare infrastructure.
Relocation consultants also point to cost advantages—serviced apartments in Lucknow average 35 per cent below Pune equivalents—which could help companies stretch assignment budgets while providing employees with larger living spaces.
Experts advise updating preferred-supplier lists to include vetted housing and ground-transport providers in the newly popular cities and to review hardship and COLA differentials as facilities improve.
