Ahmedabad’s affordable housing market is moving steadily to the city’s fringes. With construction costs and inner-city land prices hitting new highs, developers are increasingly launching residential projects beyond traditional limits.
Most new schemes feature 1, 2, and 3 BHK flats aimed at middle- and lower-middle-income families.
New residential hubs
Emerging hotspots include Vaishnodevi Circle, Jagatpur, Gandhinagar, Zundal, Chandkheda, New Chandkheda, Tapovan Circle, Adalaj, Bhadaj, and Bopal, where 2 and 3 BHK apartments dominate. Affordable 1 and 2 BHK units are also coming up in Kalol, Sarkhej-Okaf to Bavla, and Bareja.
Northern belts like Nana Chiloda and eastern pockets such as Hathijan are witnessing brisk construction, thanks to lower land costs that let builders price homes competitively.
“Developers offering affordable housing have no option but to look beyond city limits,” said Prashant Shah, former president of GICEA. “Buyers priced out of central areas are gravitating towards Adalaj, Jagatpur, Gandhinagar and Bhadaj.”
Homes within reach
In eastern Ahmedabad, budget housing is gaining traction in Hathijan and Bareja.
According to Haresh Vasani, president of the Ahmedabad Builders Association, most developers are launching 1 BHK units at ₹20–22 lakh and 2 BHK flats at ₹25–30 lakh. “Soaring land prices in western Ahmedabad have pushed affordable housing projects to distant areas,” he said.
Property prices in these belts range from 2,000 to 3,000 per sq ft — translating to ₹20–35 lakh for 2–3 BHK homes.
In contrast, rates in developed localities remain much higher: Prahladnagar (7,300/sq ft), Vastrapur (7,560/sq ft), and Satellite (7,680/sq ft). Even peripheral zones like Shela, Nava Naroda, Bopal and South Bopal range between 3,750–5,400 per sq ft.
Infrastructure fuels demand
Lower prices aren’t the only driver. Improved infrastructure — new schools, health centres, roads, public transport and streetlights — is making peripheral areas attractive, said NK Patel, chairman of NAREDCO Gujarat.
“With industrial and civic development expanding outward, many lower-middle and mid-income buyers now prefer homes in these belts,” Patel added.