Prestige City 3.0

Prestige City 3.0 stands at Yamare village, pincode 562125, on the road that links Sarjapur with Marathahalli. That road is the spine of your daily life here. It is how you would head north toward Marathahalli and the tech parks of east Bengaluru, and how you would reach Sarjapur town to the south.

The developer has not published distances to offices, schools, hospitals or the airport. So the honest way to judge the location is to try it yourself. Drive from the site to your workplace on a weekday morning, and back in the evening, and time both trips. If children are part of the plan, do the school run too.

Also note what is within a short walk or drive today: groceries, a pharmacy, a clinic and a bus stop. A new launch here will take years to finish, and the area around it will change in that time. What you see on your visit is the only firm picture you have. Treat promises about future roads or metro lines as unconfirmed until you see them in an official notice.

Prestige City 3.0 has three homes to choose from, and all sizes are quoted as built-up area. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom plan is about 1,070 sq ft from Rs. 1.39 Crore. The smaller three-bedroom plan has two bathrooms, measures about 1,450 sq ft and starts at Rs. 1.88 Crore. The larger one adds a third bathroom at about 1,700 sq ft, from Rs. 2.19 Crore.

At those starting prices you pay roughly Rs. 13,000 per sq ft, a little less on the biggest home. Ask for the carpet area too, since built-up area includes walls and balconies. Because this is an under-construction home, GST applies on top of the base price. Stamp duty and registration are payable as well.

Before you book, ask for a cost sheet for the exact unit that lists:

• Base price and the built-up and carpet areas it is based on
• Floor-rise and preferred-facing charges
• Car park charge
• Clubhouse, maintenance deposit and any advance maintenance
• DG backup charge, which the specifications list as extra
• GST, stamp duty and registration
• The construction-linked payment schedule

Prestige City 3.0 has no RERA registration number published yet. Before you pay anything, ask Prestige Group for it and search for the entry on the Karnataka RERA website (rera.karnataka.gov.in). If the developer says registration is still pending, wait. A project that is not yet registered cannot lawfully take bookings.

At a new launch, the useful documents are about the land and the plan. Ask for:

• The RERA certificate and the promoter's declared completion date
• Title deeds for the 10-acre site and a recent encumbrance certificate
• Land conversion order for residential use
• The sanctioned building plan for your tower
• A draft agreement for sale with the payment schedule and handover date

Read the agreement's clauses on delay and on changes to the plan. With handover given as 2030 onwards, both could matter to you.

At handover, ask for the occupancy certificate for your tower before you take the keys. Then register the sale deed and get the khata transferred into your name.

Prestige City 3.0 is planned as four tall towers on a 10-acre plot, each 30 floors high, with 660 families sharing the grounds. That works out to about 66 homes an acre, so expect tall, closely packed buildings and shared grounds. Life here will be vertical: lifts, corridors and the view from your balcony will shape your day more than a garden gate.

The developer has not yet published an amenity list or the share of land kept open. That makes it hard to describe an ordinary evening here with any honesty. You cannot yet say where children will play or where you might walk after dinner. Any images you see are as planned by the developer and may change before handover.

So ask for the site plan and study it. Look at the gaps between the towers, since that decides light and privacy on the lower floors. Find where the clubhouse and play areas will go, and how far they are from your tower. Check where cars enter and park. Ask whether the facilities will be ready when you move in, or finished later. With three plans repeated across the towers, your floor and facing matter as much as your plan.