Living in New Alipore
New Alipore unfolds gently to the south of old Alipore, a neighbourhood that has, over decades, gathered around itself the quiet confidence of a settled, well-planned address. This locality is bordered by the Majerhat and Tollygunge Stations to the north, the B.L. Saha Road (Chetla) to the east, Diamond Harbour Road to the west and Behala to the South. It is one of the better planned and posh areas of the city and is home to a wide variety of people, with a planned underground drainage system and street lighting.
The neighbourhood has long been the preserve of business families and professionals who prize both privacy and proximity. Well-to-do business-class families have chosen to buy homes here, making it a posh locality where residents from the upper echelons of society seek a community of like-minded, highly-qualified people belonging to the same sophisticated class. Independent houses sit alongside builder floors and rising apartment towers, giving the street a layered, lived-in character rather than the sterility of a purely new development.
On the numbers, the locality has held its value well even as the city around it has grown. Apartments in New Alipore are available at an average price of Rs 12,400 per square feet. The average sale price in New Alipore is around Rs 10,550 rupees per sq.ft., with homes ranging from Rs 56 Lakhs to Rs 7.5 Crore. The year-on-year change in average prices for apartments in New Alipore is around 12.2%, a pace that reflects genuine end-user demand rather than speculation.
What draws families here today is the same thing that drew them a generation ago - a sense of arrival. Merlin Group, PS Group, Srijan Realty, Orbit Group and Ideal have a strong presence with 254 projects in the locality, and Godrej's entry with its premium Godrej Blue development on BL Saha Road adds a fresh, contemporary chapter to a locality that has always stood for understated South Kolkata refinement.
