In this presentation Henrike Donner, an anthropologist at Goldsmith, University of London, investigates the significance of transnational housing investments and of “second homes” among non-resident Indians (NRI), drawing on her extended fieldwork experience in Kolkata, India. Recent decades have seen urban restructuring on an unprecedented scale, which caters to middle-class customers and their lifestyles and in particular to the much coveted non-resident Indians. In Kolkata as elsewhere, a sizeable number of such investors are senior citizens, who purchased flats as second homes. This talk traces the commonalities between some of their families, their particular ways of making homes in the city, and the ways their transnational lives produce distinct lifestyles between the nods of regimes of care, class-based consumption and kinship and a deliberate NRI style infused with neoliberal ideology.