Why Kolkata’s Real Estate Market Deserves a Second Look
If you’d asked someone five years ago whether Kolkata was a smart place to invest in property, you’d probably have gotten a shrug. The city was seen as steady but sleepy — nothing like the frenzy of Bangalore or the sky-high numbers coming out of Mumbai. That perception, though, has been quietly falling apart over the last couple of years, and anyone paying attention to the ground reality knows it. Kolkata has always had something most other metros lack: space that hasn’t been squeezed dry yet. While cities like Pune and Hyderabad are running out of room to expand, Kolkata still has entire stretches — New Town, Rajarhat, the EM Bypass corridor — that are only now hitting their stride. That’s the part outsiders miss. The city isn’t “catching up,” it’s just getting started on a growth curve that other places already burned through. The Infrastructure Push Nobody Talks About A lot of the buzz around property in Kolkata comes down to infrastructure, and honestly, it doesn’t get enou...