Lodha, the Mumbai-headquartered developer built by Mangal Prabhat Lodha in 1980, has extended its footprint from high-rise towers in the city to low-density villa and plotted formats along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and Khalapur taluka in Khopoli is one of the addresses it has chosen for this shift. Lodha's 44-year history spans over 60,000 homes delivered and 40 projects across Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Bengaluru, and London, and the group's arrival in a Sahyadri-facing, expressway-adjacent belt like Khalapur signals how far its second-home ambitions have travelled from its original suburban Mumbai base.
Lodha's presence here takes two related forms. Lodha Khopoli is a residential project offering villas and plots in Khopoli, located along the Khopoli-Pen Road, surrounded by the Sahyadris on one side and a river on the other. Separately, Lodha Villa Cerro is a 25-acre low-density gated estate in Khalapur along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway corridor, blending 18th-century European Georgian-revival architecture with riverside views of the Sahyadris. Each villa at Cerro sits on its own private land parcel rather than in cluster housing, positioning it as estate living. Pricing for the Khopoli portfolio has been reported starting from approximately ₹2.5 crore, varying with villa configuration and plot size.
This is not Lodha's first experiment with the plotted-villa format. In Palava, its integrated township near Dombivli, the group already runs comparable villa-plot offerings such as Villa Imperio and Villa Royale, built around the same idea of estate-style low-rise living within a larger Lodha-controlled land parcel. Khopoli extends that playbook to a genuinely scenic, hill-and-river setting rather than a township core.
Lodha Khopoli is pitched on a 70-90 minute drive from South Mumbai via the Atal Setu, with smooth access from Navi Mumbai and from Pune via the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and Villa Cerro's own marketing places it at approximately 90 minutes from South Mumbai under normal traffic conditions. Both projects lean on the same recreational geography: proximity to Imagica Theme Park, Aqua Imagica water park, and Della Adventure and Resorts. Lodha's own framing draws a direct contrast with the region's more congested weekend markets — Khopoli is described as fast becoming a desirable second-home destination near Mumbai, offering a more exclusive and peaceful alternative to the crowded hubs of Khandala and Lonavala, while sitting on the same expressway that feeds those towns.
Khopoli is an industrial town in the Khalapur taluka of Raigad district, at the base of the Sahyadri mountains, with the Patalganga River running through it, and it is formally part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The area has had a working rail link for well over a century: Khopoli is served by a railway station connected to the Mumbai suburban railway by a single line from Karjat, and it functions as the terminus of the Central Line. Road access runs through the same corridor Lodha's marketing leans on — Khopoli's location on National Highway 4 and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway gives it a strategic advantage, a corridor whose commercial value changed permanently once the expressway opened: when the Mumbai-Pune Expressway opened in 2002, Khopoli, once a sleepy industrial town between Lonavala and Navi Mumbai, quietly transformed into one of Maharashtra's more promising real estate markets.
The broader Khalapur belt is also being planned formally, not left to organic growth alone. A special purpose vehicle, Khalapur SPV, has been set up for an integrated township along NAINA lines, with CIDCO and the SPV collaborating on physical and social infrastructure. Industrial demand adds another leg to housing demand in the belt: the JNPT port, the upcoming Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, and MSRDC's expressway expansion plans are turning Khopoli into a logistics and warehousing hub, with industrial corridors near Khopoli, Khalapur, and Taloja seeing increased corporate presence. Air connectivity is also improving on the horizon, with the Navi Mumbai International Airport, under development, roughly 50 km from Khopoli.
Lodha's scale gives this Khalapur-Khopoli entry context rather than novelty. The company has grown from a small Mumbai-based developer in 1980 to generating more than ₹17,600 crore in annual sales, and in 2025 it formally adopted the Lodha Developers name, aligning its corporate identity with the consumer brand millions of homebuyers already trusted. Its landmark projects — Lodha Altamount, Lodha World Towers, Lodha Bellissimo, Trump Tower Mumbai, and Lodha Park — sit at the opposite end of the product spectrum from a 25-acre villa estate in Khalapur, which is precisely the point: a developer with that vertical-tower pedigree choosing to build low-density, land-parcel villas in a Sahyadri-and-riverside setting is a deliberate diversification into the weekend-home category, using the same expressway infrastructure that already carries its Mumbai and Pune buyers.
