Old Baiyyappanahalli, tucked between Indiranagar and the Old Madras Road corridor in central-east Bengaluru, is where Godrej Properties has already placed one of its most visible commercial developments in the city. The address on record is Old Madras Road, Old Baiyyappanahalli, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560038, and it is here that the developer built Godrej Centre, a large-format office tower that anchors the company's presence in this micro-market well before any residential launch is announced in the pocket.
Godrej Centre is a standalone commercial building with 3 basements plus ground and 10 floors, and a total built-up area of roughly 10,55,000 sq. ft., developed and completed by Godrej Properties in 2024. Certifications for the project include LEED IGBC Platinum Pre-Certified and WELL IWBI Pre-Certified status, reflecting the sustainability benchmarks the company applies across its portfolio. The typical floor plate runs to about 1,00,000 sq. ft., a scale that has attracted large occupiers, including TableSpace Technologies, to a building positioned squarely inside Old Baiyyappanahalli rather than the more commonly cited Indiranagar core.
The design brief for this project leaned on the site itself: during construction a granite formation was uncovered and, instead of being removed, was preserved as a monolithic slab that now anchors the building's open amphitheatre. It is a detail that ties a large institutional development back to the specific ground it occupies in Old Baiyyappanahalli, rather than treating the site as interchangeable.
Old Baiyyappanahalli sits inside a well-established transit and employment web that makes it a logical spot for a developer building both offices and homes in Bengaluru. The area serves as a transport hub and is known for the Baiyappanahalli metro station, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal, and Baiyyappanahalli railway station. The Baiyappanahalli metro station itself sits on the Purple Line, which runs from Baiyyappanahalli in the east to Mysore Road terminal station in the southwest, covering 18.1 km across 17 stations, giving the locality a direct rail link into the city's core business districts.
Beyond the metro, Old Baiyyappanahalli benefits from proximity to the IT corridor along Old Airport Road and the bustling commercial centres of Indiranagar and HAL, and is well-connected via major roads like Old Airport Road and Varthur Road, and lies close to the Outer Ring Road, enabling access to IT corridors in Whitefield and Marathahalli. Rail connectivity extends further: the area also has access to the Bengaluru-Chennai railway line via Baiyappanahalli Railway Station. This combination of metro, arterial road, and rail access is precisely the kind of infrastructure base that supports both the office leasing demand Godrej Centre serves today and any future residential interest in the pocket.
Old Baiyyappanahalli's residential stock has historically been modest in scale next to its transport credentials. Real estate in the locality remains relatively underdeveloped in terms of large-scale projects, with most housing stock comprising older layouts and independent houses, and the area, historically part of the Baiyyappanahalli cluster, retains a strong sense of community with a mix of independent homes and low-rise apartments, surrounded by neighbourhoods such as KHB Colony, Sanjeevappa Layout, and Krishnamurthi Nagar. That gap between strong connectivity and comparatively low-rise housing stock is often where developers with an established commercial or institutional foothold, such as Godrej Properties, find room to introduce more organised residential formats over time.
Pricing in the immediate locality still trades at a relative discount to premium east Bengaluru addresses. Property rates in Old Baiyyappanahalli currently range from about Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 10,000 per square foot, and rates have surged over the past year, with proximity to IT hubs and seamless connectivity driving rental demand, while road expansions and metro extensions continue to strengthen investment prospects. For a developer already operating a Grade-A commercial asset in the pocket, this trajectory is a direct signal of the locality's evolving profile.
Godrej Properties is the real estate arm of the Godrej Group, established in 1990 as the development arm of the Godrej Group, a diversified Indian conglomerate founded in 1897. The company went public in 2010 through an IPO that raised approximately USD 100 million, and is listed on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. Since 2012, the company has been led by Executive Chairman Pirojsha Adi Godrej, a fourth-generation member of the Godrej family, with Gaurav Pandey serving as Managing Director and CEO.
The scale behind that leadership shows up in recent numbers. In FY25, Godrej Properties achieved sales bookings of Rs 29,444 crore from 15,302 homes, covering 25.73 million square feet, and delivered 18.4 million square feet during the year. Every project the company has launched since 2010 has been a certified green building, and Godrej Properties has ranked among the top listed residential developers globally on the GRESB sustainability benchmark, including the number-one position in 2020, 2021 and 2022 — the same sustainability discipline visible in the LEED Platinum and WELL certifications carried by Godrej Centre in Old Baiyyappanahalli itself.
For a buyer or investor tracking Godrej Properties in Bengaluru, Old Baiyyappanahalli reads less as an isolated address and more as an extension of the company's broader east-Bengaluru interest, which spans commercial developments near Indiranagar and residential launches further along Old Madras Road, Sarjapur, and Whitefield. The Namma Metro purple line extension, running from Chellagetta through Baiyyappanahalli towards Whitefield, with new stations at KR Puram, Benniganahalli, and Singayanapalaya, has made travel considerably faster along this corridor, reinforcing why a developer already anchored in Old Baiyyappanahalli through a large commercial asset is well placed to track the locality's continuing infrastructure build-out.
