SOBHA's expansion along Old Madras Road places it at Kattamanallur, a village-turned-residential-belt on the approach to Hoskote in East Bangalore. SOBHA has planned a landmark residential township here, spread over a 300-plus-acre master layout with an initial phase of around 48 acres. The choice of address is consistent with how the group has built its Bangalore portfolio over three decades: large parcels on emerging arterial roads, developed in phases, rather than infill plots in already-saturated micro-markets.
Kattamanallur itself is described as a fast-growing area near Hoskote in East Bangalore, close to National Highway 75 and part of the Hoskote-Whitefield growth corridor. The main approach to SOBHA's development here is via a 30-metre-wide Hoskote Main Road that adjoins NH-75. For a developer that has historically anchored its Bangalore presence in Sarjapur, Bannerghatta Road, and the eastern IT belt, Kattamanallur is a logical extension of that same demand line stretching further out along Old Madras Road.
Sobha Limited was incorporated on August 7, 1995, as Sobha Developers Private Limited in Bangalore, founded by PNC Menon after he had already built a construction reputation in Oman. The company's first residential project, Sobha Sapphire in Bangalore, broke ground in September 1997 and was handed over by 1999. From that point, the group built its reputation on a model rarely attempted at this scale in India. The backward integration model was introduced out of necessity when Menon identified a lack of reliable suppliers and skilled labour in the market, so he built an integrated ecosystem from the ground up rather than compromise on quality. The approach later drew attention from Harvard Business School, which featured SOBHA's backward integration strategy as a case study on how it created a sustainable competitive advantage in India's real estate market.
That in-house manufacturing base — concrete products, glazing, interiors, and precast systems — is what a buyer is effectively purchasing into wherever SOBHA builds, including on a corridor as far out as Kattamanallur. With over 581 developments across 27 cities in India, the group is renowned for international standards of quality, customer centricity, timely delivery, and the trust of 34,000 families.
SOBHA's other Bangalore addresses give context to why Kattamanallur matters within its portfolio. The developer's notable Bangalore developments include Sobha Altair in Sarjapur and Sobha Magnus on Bannerghatta Road, both large-format projects on arterial roads with sustained IT-linked demand. The group also has a presence just south of Kattamanallur, with a villa development at Survey no 45/4, Kattamanallur, Sannatammanahalli, near Huskur, indicating the developer has been acquiring and building across this belt rather than at a single isolated site. That pattern — clustering land parcels across a growth corridor before it matures — has been SOBHA's approach in Sarjapur and Bannerghatta Road in earlier cycles, and it appears to be repeating on the Hoskote side of the city.
Kattamanallur's relevance to a SOBHA buyer rests heavily on how it sits within Bangalore's road network. From this stretch, Whitefield is about 20 minutes away, KR Puram is around 25 minutes away, and Bangalore airport is about 40 minutes away. New road projects such as the Satellite Town Ring Road are expected to add further connectivity to the belt. This places SOBHA's development within reach of Whitefield's IT employment base without the price load that comes with a Whitefield address itself — a positioning the developer has used before in Sarjapur, where proximity to the ORR IT corridor mattered more than a central postal address.
Public listings place Kattamanallur, which carries the pincode 560067, within the Bengaluru East Zone, and the area is tracked as a distinct micro-market rather than a subset of Whitefield. Average rates on this corridor run near ₹10,300 per square foot, below central Whitefield. Independent tracking of the immediate locality shows average property price per square foot for apartments appreciating 9.2 percent over the past year, a pace consistent with a corridor that is still filling in its social infrastructure rather than one that has already peaked. For a brand-backed, backward-integrated developer entering at this price band, the gap to Whitefield's per-square-foot rate is the argument: buyers get a SOBHA-built home with room for the corridor's infrastructure — road widening, the Satellite Town Ring Road, and metro planning — to catch up over the holding period.
The immediate neighbourhood has moved past its village character. As of 2026, Kattamanallur is no longer a small village; it now has apartments, schools, hospitals, and better roads. Retail anchors are already within a short drive, with Orion Uptown Mall around 1.2 km away and a Decathlon outlet about 3.7 km from the Old Madras Road stretch. This combination — daily conveniences already in place, larger malls and IT campuses a short drive further — is the same layered infrastructure pattern SOBHA has typically waited for before committing large land parcels in Bangalore.
