Living Along OMR: South Chennai's Quiet Ascent
There is a particular kind of energy that hums along Old Mahabalipuram Road as it unspools southward from the city, past glass-fronted campuses and under flyovers still finding their final shape. OMR, or Rajiv Gandhi IT Expressway, is a major IT corridor in Chennai that links the city with Mahabalipuram along a 45 km belt, with Perungudi, Thoraipakkam and Siruseri counted among its famous IT hubs, alongside ELCOT SEZ, SIPCOT IT Park and TIDEL Park. For homebuyers, this has meant a steady, almost inevitable pull towards the corridor's southern stretches, where land is more abundant and the pace of life a shade gentler than the congested inner suburbs.
The numbers tell their own patient story of appreciation. Average property rates per square feet in OMR, Chennai for flats stood around Rs 7,250 per sq ft, with flat rates changing by 7.4% in the last one year, 31.8% over three years and 52.6% over five years. It is a market that rewards those who arrive early and stay patient, rather than those chasing overnight windfalls.
Godrej Properties has read this trajectory with evident conviction. Godrej Properties Limited has acquired a 47-acre land parcel through an outright purchase off Old Mahabalipuram Road in South Chennai, expected to offer a developable potential of about 1.2 million square feet, with an estimated revenue potential of ₹500 crore. This sits alongside the developer's earlier residential venture in the same belt, Godrej Azure, located in Padur, Chennai, along the rapidly developing OMR corridor, offering excellent connectivity to Siruseri SIPCOT IT Park, Sholinganallur, educational institutions, hospitals, entertainment hubs and major commercial centers in South Chennai.
What draws families here, ultimately, is not a single amenity but an accumulation of them — schools within a short drive, hospitals a phone call away, and the promise, still unfolding, of a neighbourhood coming into its own rather than one already crowded to capacity.
