BENGALURU: India ’s real estate sector is likely to see increased interest from global investors and higher allocation of long-term capital in the next five years, a top executive at a global commercial real estate services firm said, on improved regulations and policy reforms and a healthy demand-supply balance.Global investors remain bullish on India’s property market owing to regulatory reforms, said David Hand, CEO-APAC at Colliers International , which recently acquired a controlling stake in a Blackstone-backed property management firm in India. “We are all aware of the short-term headwinds due to regulatory reforms, but India is one of the healthier markets globally, and every emerging market goes through growing challenges,” Hand said.Investors may look beyond rent-yielding offices to bet on demand-based sectors such as logistics, warehousing, data centres, co-living and student housing , build-to-core offices and urbanisation projects, he said.Investments into real estate are expected to touch $6.5 billion in 2019, with office investments garnering the highest share. Investors are gung-ho about the commercial office sector, which is witnessing robust demand, according to a recent report by RICS-Colliers.The real estate sector will also become more sophisticated with long-term capital entering the market, Hand said.