DSR The Courtyard vs The Earthscape by Bricks & Milestones

DSR The Courtyard

Pros

• The community is finished and handover has started, so there is no construction risk, no completion date to wait out and nothing to take on trust – what a buyer inspects is the building itself.
• The price is confirmed from two directions. The 1,113 sq ft two-bedroom at Rs 1.21 crore and the 1,546 sq ft three-bedroom at Rs 1.67 crore both work back to about Rs 10,840 per sq ft, and a rate that agrees across two configurations to within seventy rupees is a rate a buyer can rely on.
• At about Rs 10,840 per sq ft this is cheaper than DSR’s own under-construction tower project 4.9 km away, and materially below the Rs 13,500 that comparable new stock commands in north and east Bengaluru.
• Two car parks per home is unusual at this size and price, and it is the kind of provision that becomes valuable the moment a household owns a second vehicle.

Cons

• About eighteen homes share each residential level. Across 252 homes and fourteen floors that is the fullest floor plate we have measured on any project on this site – roughly double the nine per floor at a Hyderabad tower we reviewed and three times the six per floor at communities that market themselves on privacy. Eighteen doors to a corridor changes lift waiting, noise and how private a home feels, and it is the single most consequential number here.
• 252 homes on 2.72 acres works out to about 93 to the acre, leaving roughly 470 sq ft of land behind each apartment. That sits at the dense end of everything we have measured.
• 2.72 acres is a small parcel for a community of this size. Concentrating the amenities into one courtyard is the right response, but it also means there is one of everything – one pool, one lawn, one plaza – shared by 252 households.
• The configuration range is narrow. Two and three bedroom only, from 1,113 to 1,687 sq ft, so a growing family has nowhere to move up to inside the community.

The Earthscape by Bricks & Milestones