
Koramangala
The startup district — every founder's first office and half of them live here too.
2 BHK typical
₹50K
/month
Rent per sq ft
₹59
moderate supply
Year on year
+5%
asking rents
Walkability
7.5/10
neighbourhood score
At a glance
₹50K
typical 2 BHK · illustrative
Your journeys
Add where you travel and every area shows your journey first.
Why this fits
- A balanced, middle-register area.
Something to consider
- quiet streets scores 5.5/10
The vibe
Life in Koramangala
Koramangala runs on ambition and filter coffee. Its blocks each have a personality — 3rd Block's quiet lanes, 5th Block's restaurant mile, the startup offices threaded between. Nowhere in India puts more investors, founders and engineers within one auto ride.
Scores
IllustrativeOn the market
Homes that fit
A curated shortlist, deliberately. FWA carries at most 200 homes and buildings per area, chosen and checked rather than scraped in volume.
The pulse
What's new in Koramangala
Fresh availability, price drops and approved community entries from the last few weeks, mapped where they happened.
The pulse
What's new in Koramangala
Fresh availability, price drops and approved community entries from the last few weeks, mapped where they happened.
The pulse
What's new in Koramangala
The micro-signals of the last few weeks, mapped where they happened. Every blob links to its entry in the feed below.
- ₹51.5K home listed2 BHK in Brigade Lakefrontin 15 days
- ₹96K home listed3 BHK in RMZ Verdantin 5 days
- ₹99.5K home listed3 BHK in Total Environment Heritage2 days ago
- ₹47K home listed2 BHK in Brigade Lakefront6 days ago
- ₹97.5K home listed3 BHK in Total Environment Acropolis10 days ago
- ₹60.5K home listed2 BHK in RMZ Verdant10 days ago
- ₹43K home listed2 BHK in Total Environment Acropolis13 days ago
- Price drop: ₹50K → ₹47K2 BHK in Brigade Lakefront44 days ago
- Price drop: ₹1.07L → ₹97.5K3 BHK in Total Environment Acropolis44 days ago
Built only from real signals in FWA's curated set. Fresh availability, price changes and ops-approved community entries. No invented activity; community entries pin to the area centre, never to a guessed address.

Sport & fitness
Courts, turfs and places to run
- Football turf
Golden Leg
Koramangala
- Pickleball · Badminton
Machaxi
Koramangala
- Padel
Tiger 5 Padel
Dairy Circle side
- Multi-sport
The Grid
Koramangala
Education
Schools and colleges nearby
- National Public School, KoramangalaSchool
- Christ UniversityUniversity · Hosur Road
- St John's Medical CollegeCollege
- Jyoti Nivas CollegeCollege
The calendar
Festivals, crowds and what to expect
1 festival in the Bengaluru calendar reach Koramangala, and 1 of them close roads. 1 have a date we have checked; the rest are set year by year.
New Year's Eve
Roads close31 Dec 2026in 4 months· the same date every yearWhy this affects this area: 80 Feet Road, JNC Road, 17th H Main and Y D Math Road are all under restriction and Sony World Junction traffic is diverted via Madiwala.
Runs late. Sourced reports describe activity continuing into the night.
Dates for Hindu festivals come from the panchang and move by weeks each year; Islamic dates are confirmed by a moon sighting the evening before and can move a day. We hold checked dates through 2027 and show nothing where we do not have one.
Also noted locally in Koramangala
Ganesha Habba
Aug–SepBlock-level, tidy.
Startup events
Year-roundWeekday evening meetups; no residential impact.
Area-level colour from our own research, without a road-level advisory behind it. The dated calendar above is the sourced layer.
Worth knowing
- 5th Block restaurant traffic nightly
- Hosur Road / Sony World junction noise
- Rapid construction of commercial floors
The decibel calculator— how loud does it actually get here?
Estimated at a Koramangala home · Aug–Sep
70–85 dB
Like heavy arterial traffic — noticeable, part of the background.
Pandal loudspeakers and immersion processions to the city's approved lakes and mobile tanks; loudest along the procession roads.
Modelled estimate (noise-v1.0) from this area's festival calendar and quietness, anchored to KSPCB Deepavali monitoring (2023 peak reading 84.6 dB at Sarjapur). Not a measurement at your window — but an honest basis for the decision.

On the ground
Traffic and infrastructure
Sony World, Forum and Hosur Road junctions are slow all day; 3rd Block is calm.
- Roads
- Mixed; 80 Feet Road decent
- Water
- Cauvery + borewell; tankers in April
- Power
- Stable
- Drainage & monsoon
- Low blocks near the storm drain waterlog
Getting around
Public transport and last mile
- Metro
- Pink Line under construction (Dairy Circle/Koramangala)
- Bus
- BMTC dense on Hosur Road and 80 Feet Road
- Last mile
- Autos, app bikes plentiful

Running a home
Staff, deliveries and everyday life
What it costs in Bengaluru
- part-time cleaning (jhadu-pocha)₹4.5k – ₹15k / month
Sources disagree sharply, which is itself the finding. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 4,500-9,000/month for 'task-based help for 1-4 hours a day' (sweeping-mopping, utensils, dusting, laundry on a fixed daily slot). EzyHelpers' Bengaluru guide of 24 July 2026 quotes INR 8,000-15,000/month for a part-time maid, priced by task bundle rather than by the hour - a single task such as utensils at the bottom, bundled sweeping, mopping, bathrooms and laundry near the top. The independent reference point is the IIHS survey of 9,636 households published December 2022, which found Bengaluru households paying between INR 2,000 and INR 13,000 per month per worker.
Moves with: Task bundle, hours, house size, family size, locality (Whitefield and Koramangala explicitly quoted at a premium), experience, language.
- cook, one meal₹6k – ₹18k / month
IMPORTANT - not split by number of meals. EzyHelpers quotes INR 6,000-10,000/month for a part-time cook and INR 12,000-20,000 for a full-time cook. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 10,000-18,000/month for a cook covering 'one or more daily meal slots'. The band here covers part-time cooking of one to two meals; a full-time cook is higher.
Moves with: Number of meal slots, cuisine, family size, whether utensils are included.
- full-time live-out₹16k – ₹26k / month
EzyHelpers quotes INR 16,000-22,000/month for a full-time maid working eight to ten hours a day, and states that combined cleaning and cooking for a family of four or more sits at INR 20,000-22,000. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 16,000-26,000/month for '8-12 hours a day (or live-in)'. This band brackets Karnataka's notified housekeeping minimum for Zone I (INR 15,044.56/month), which is what a full-day worker is legally owed at minimum.
Moves with: Hours, whether cooking is included, house and family size, locality.
- live-in₹20k – ₹30k / month
EzyHelpers' 24 July 2026 Bengaluru guide quotes INR 22,000-30,000/month for a live-in maid, INR 25,000+ for a live-in cook, INR 20,000-25,000 for a live-in nanny and INR 20,000-30,000 for a live-in elder-care attendant. It states a private sleeping space and meals are included in the stated salary, and that pay rises with home size, presence of children or elderly, and night duties.
Moves with: Home size, children or elderly in the house, night duties, role.
- nanny / childcare₹8k – ₹25k / month
EzyHelpers quotes INR 8,000-12,000/month part-time, INR 16,000-20,000 full-time and INR 20,000-25,000 live-in for a nanny or babysitter. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 14,000-24,000/month. Note that Karnataka's notified schedule prices 'child care' with laundry and housekeeping at INR 15,390.62/month Zone I for a full day.
Moves with: Part-time vs full-time vs live-in, child's age, number of children, training.
- elder care₹15k – ₹30k / month
EzyHelpers quotes INR 15,000-25,000/month full-time and INR 20,000-30,000 live-in for an elder-care attendant, with part-time priced per visit. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 15,000-25,000/month for 'non-medical companionship and daily assistance for senior citizens at home'. Karnataka's schedule separately names 'Home Nurses' within the same scheduled employment.
Moves with: Level of assistance, night duty, live-in vs live-out, training.
How people actually find someone
Broomees
Operates in Bangalore alongside Delhi NCR, Pune and Ranchi. The household books online, Broomees sends vetted candidates and states it verifies backgrounds against government records using Aadhaar and police verification; the salary is agreed directly between household and helper.
Cost: INR 49 booking fee plus 18% GST, plus a monthly membership fee. Broomees states it takes no cut of the worker's salary.
EzyHelpers
A Bengaluru-centred placement agency with location-specific pages across the city. It screens and places live-in, full-time and part-time helpers, nannies and caregivers and publishes a detailed Bengaluru salary guide (last updated 24 July 2026).
Cost: INR 25,000 plus taxes for a live-in placement; part-time and full-time placement fees are quoted on consultation and not published.
MyBuddyMaid
Placement platform with a Bangalore city page. The household pays a one-time access fee for a verified candidate pool, interviews, and agrees the salary with the helper directly.
Cost: One-time access charge: Silver INR 4,999, Gold INR 5,999, Diamond INR 6,999.
Helper4U
Pan-India placement marketplace for maids, cooks, nannies, caregivers and drivers; households buy a hiring package to view and interview candidates.
Cost: Tiered one-off hiring packages paid by the household; states no commission on the worker's salary. Prices not published publicly.
MyGate
Used across Bengaluru apartment communities for visitor management and society administration - 27,000+ communities, 5 million+ homes, 50+ cities. Daily help are normally admitted on a code or pass issued by the resident.
Cost: Paid by the society.
Domestic Workers Rights Union (DWRU)
Not a placement route, but the organised counterparty in Bengaluru. DWRU negotiates with the Karnataka Labour Department on domestic workers' wages and grievances and has publicly demanded a separate welfare board, departmental inquiry into employer-worker disputes and four days of paid leave a month. A household that wants to get the terms right can use its published demands as a reference point for what workers themselves consider fair.
In Koramangala: Ejipura and Viveknagar supply staff; affordable. , our own read on the area, without a source behind it, unlike everything above.
What the law says
There is a legal minimum wage for domestic work here.
Domestic work is a scheduled employment in this state, so a notified rate applies and paying below it is unlawful.
Police verification
Karnataka State Police issues a 'Police Verification Certificate for Domestic Servants / House Keeping'. There are two variants - antecedents verification only (a check against police records), or antecedents plus address verification. Application forms are available in English or Kannada at KarnatakaOne centres; the form costs INR 10, service fees are paid at the centre in cash or by card, and the completed form is submitted to the jurisdictional police station. Both the applicant and the address to be verified must be within Karnataka. The service is also listed on the National Government Services Portal. It is a voluntary service a household can request, not a statutory obligation.
The official pageWorth knowing
- The single most important number for a Bengaluru employer: Karnataka's notified minimum for a full day of general cleaning and housekeeping in the BBMP area was INR 15,044.56 a month (INR 578.64 a day) for 2025-26, and INR 17,293.95 a month for cooking and kitchen work. This is law, not a suggestion, and it applies to private households because domestic work is a scheduled employment here.
- The IIHS study published 12 December 2022, covering 9,636 households in Bengaluru and Chennai, found 54% of Bengaluru households employed domestic help, paying between INR 2,000 and INR 13,000 per month, and concluded that a worker on the lowest of those rates would have to work in six households to reach Karnataka's statutory minimum for domestic work (then stated as INR 12,241-14,711 a month). In other words, the market rate per household is set well below a lawful full-day wage, and the gap is made up by the worker running between houses.
- If you employ someone part-time, do the arithmetic honestly: take the notified full-day monthly rate for the relevant category, work out what fraction of a normal working day your household actually takes, and pay at least that fraction. That is the fair-employer version of the law even where an inspector will never call.
- In January 2025 Deccan Herald reported the Karnataka Labour Department and the Domestic Workers Rights Union at odds over a proposed minimum wage of INR 19,517 a month for an eight-hour day, six days a week, and over the union's demand for four days of paid leave a month; the Labour Minister rejected a separate welfare board on the ground that the other 393 unorganised-sector occupations would ask for the same. Karnataka has an estimated 3 lakh domestic workers and 3.11 lakh welfare cards issued under the unorganised sector welfare board.
- Karnataka published a draft Domestic Workers Bill on 15 October 2025, open for public comment until 14 November 2025 and intended for the winter session of the Assembly. If enacted it would be India's first comprehensive state framework: mandatory written contracts stating wages, hours and notice; online registration of workers, employers and service providers renewed every three years; a 48-hour weekly cap with daily rest and a weekly day off; maternity benefit and social security; protection against forced labour, discrimination and sexual exploitation; a tripartite State Domestic Workers Social Security and Welfare Board; a welfare contribution of up to 5% from employers; and penalties up to INR 50,000. AICCTU criticised the department for publishing the draft only in English. A renter moving to Bengaluru should assume employer registration and a written contract may become compulsory.
- Practical live-in standards published by Bengaluru agencies: show the actual sleeping space rather than describing it (mattress, somewhere to keep belongings, enough separation to rest), agree the number of meals and who cooks them before day one, distinguish being in the house from being on duty, and fix the weekly day off before the job starts - that last one is described as the single practice most associated with a live-in helper staying. Monitoring or confiscating a worker's phone is named as a common reason helpers leave.
- Festival bonus convention as published by a Bengaluru agency: around one month's salary at Diwali or the helper's own main festival, sometimes split across the year. This is a convention, not a legal entitlement, and it is not a substitute for a lawful monthly wage.
- The Home Management and Care Givers Sector Skill Council (HMCGSSC), which sets occupational standards, training and certification for home management and caregiving roles, held a national conclave in Delhi on 3 August 2026 pushing for role-specific professional titles instead of 'domestic helper', structured pre-deployment training, and formal certification for childcare and elderly care.
Researched 2026-09. Rates and rules both move; check the official page before you rely on the process, and treat the ranges as a shape rather than a quote.
Everyday, in Koramangala
- Quick commerce dense
- Forum Mall and 5th Block
- Parking difficult on 5th Block
The Koramangala address book
The precise version of the neighbourhood: real establishments, each pinned to its street or pocket, named from public listings.
Chemists
4th Block, Maharaja signal
6th Block, 24 hours
Sources: apollopharmacy.in
Laundry & dry clean
Koramangala, chain laundry
5th Block, the name alone has regulars
Sources: fabrico.in · public listings · 8 Sep 2026
Arts & culture
- MyBoTreeArt space
Koramangala
- Pineroots Art CaveStudio
Koramangala
- Our TheatreBlack box
Koramangala
Sources: public listings · 8 Sep 2026
Cinemas
Forum Mall, Hosur Road edge, the mall that taught Bengaluru multiplexes
Sources: District
Markets & everyday
- SPARHypermarket
Sony World junction
- Madiwala MarketWet market
Madiwala, next door, the south's great produce market
Hosur Road edge
Sources: sparindia.com · public listings · 8 Sep 2026
The honest traffic read
Sarjapur Road and the Sony World junction jam through evenings, Ejipura flyover works still pinch the 80 Feet Road side, and Silk Board looms over every southbound plan. No metro yet — the Pink Line is under construction — so autos and the 5th Block walk are the real network.
When the streets fill up
Gowri–Ganesha pandals rise in the block parks and the immersion processions head for the approved tanks; Deepavali is society-led and stays largely inside the 8–10pm window. NYE turns 80 Feet Road into one long queue.
Places verified against public listings on September 2026; hours and addresses change. Confirm before you rely on one.
Move-in
Setting up your home
Furniture, decor and first-week supplies. What's around Koramangala, and the supply districts the whole city shops from.
Move-in
Setting up your home
Furniture, decor and first-week supplies. What's around Koramangala, and the supply districts the whole city shops from.
Move-in
Setting up your home
Furniture, decor and first-week supplies. What's actually around this address, and where Mumbai really shops for the rest.
The supply runs— where Mumbai actually shops, nearest first
Live results come from Google Places around this exact address. Districts and picks were researched 7 September 2026 from public sources. Honest curation, not a live index.
The people layer
Plug into Koramangala
Real groups and forums, the civic layer, and how cooks and househelp are actually hired here.
The people layer
Plug into Koramangala
Real groups and forums, the civic layer, and how cooks and househelp are actually hired here.
The people layer
Plug into Koramangala
The groups where a lane actually talks, and how household help really gets hired here.
Groups & forums
r/bangalore
All Bengaluru, one of India's oldest city subreddits (since 2008) — rental threads, area questions, recommendations
Koramangala Residentssample
Koramangala, building & lane updates, water-cut and society notices
Koramangala Buy · Sell · Recommendsample
Koramangala, furniture hand-me-downs when leases turn over, trusted vendor recommendations
Koramangala Foodies & New-in-townsample
Koramangala, where newcomers ask everything from tiffin services to weekend plans
Sample entries show what residents share here. They carry no links and are replaced as real groups are approved. Linked entries are real.
Bengaluru's civic layer runs through RWAs and BBMP ward committees, amplified by famously effective resident collectives — Whitefield Rising and HSR Citizen Forum being the models. Joining your layout's RWA or forum is the fastest route into water-tanker schedules, lake volunteering and the streets' real news.
Cooks, househelp & staff. How it actually works
- 1
The society network hires first
Most cooks and househelps in a building already work in it. Ask the society office and your floor's neighbours before anything else — staff who are known to the building come with built-in references and realistic timings.
- 2
The watchman is the real directory
Security staff know who serves which flats, who has a free slot, and who is reliable. A polite word at the gate typically produces two or three introductions within days.
- 3
Agree the terms everyone uses
Monthly pay scales with tasks and building norms — ask two neighbours what the going rate is on your floor before negotiating. Standard practice: one paid day off a week, a Diwali bonus of one month's pay, and advance notice on leave both ways.
- 4
Do the verification properly
Police verification for domestic staff can be done through your city police's citizen portal — Mumbai and Delhi run it online; Bengaluru accepts forms at the local station. Most societies require it, and good staff expect it. Keep a copy of ID, and share your own references too; trust runs both ways.
Verified platforms
Urban Company
Deep cleaning · appliance service · repairs
on-demand and background-checked; strongest for one-time setup jobs when you move in
BookMyBai
Maids · cooks · nannies · elder care
placement marketplace for full-time and part-time domestic staff across the big metros
Broomees
Maids · cooks · babysitters
verified domestic help with trials and replacements
Community layer researched 7 September 2026. FWA never invents groups or helper profiles, resident submissions go live only after review.
Where this information comes from
Photo credits- Rents, scores & inventoryIllustrative demoSeeded dataset: Plausible for the market, not observed. Never presented as verified.
- Neighbourhood address bookSource-reportedPublic listings, checked September 2026: Real establishments with per-card sources; hours and addresses change. Confirm before relying on one.
- Traffic, festivals & characterEditorialResearched editorial, dated: Written from named local sources; reviewed on a schedule.
- PhotographyLicensedPexels & Unsplash, credited: Every image carries creator attribution. See Credits.
- Maps & commutesEstimatedGoogle embeds · conceptual timings: Embedded maps are live; commute minutes are conceptual until a routing provider is connected.
Our rule: nothing is labelled verified unless a person checked it. Statuses will attach to every individual fact as the live data pipeline replaces this demo set.
Property mix
Illustrative demo dataRent intelligence
Rent trends
The illustrative 12-month trend, per-square-foot context and any live rent signal for this area.
Rent intelligence
Rent trends
The illustrative 12-month trend, per-square-foot context and any live rent signal for this area.
Typical 2 BHK asking rent · illustrative 12-month trend
Typical 2 BHK today
₹50K
Year on year
+5%
Rent per sq ft · inventory
₹59/sq ftmoderate supply
The everyday
Your daily life
The three closest of each kind, with the full address book in the guide below.
Eat
Truffles
Eat · 218 m · 3 min walk
The burger queue is worth it
The Corner Table
Eat · 482 m · 6 min walk
Madras Meals
Eat · 1.1 km · 14 min walk
Coffee
The Daily Grind
Coffee · 386 m · 5 min walk
Blue Tokai 5th Block
Coffee · 726 m · 9 min walk
Third Wave HQ
Coffee · 1.1 km · 14 min walk
Drink
The Night Owl
Drink · 654 m · 8 min walk
Byg Brewski
Drink · 730 m · 9 min walk
Fitness
Flow Yoga Studio
Fitness · 296 m · 4 min walk
F45 Koramangala
Fitness · 504 m · 6 min walk
Groceries
Ratnadeep
Groceries · 589 m · 7 min walk
Farm Table Organics
Groceries · 1.4 km · 18 min walk
Parks

Koramangala 3rd Block Park
Parks · 681 m · 9 min walk

The Green
Parks · 1.5 km · 18 min walk
Culture
Community Art Space
Culture · 1.1 km · 14 min walk
Heritage Gallery
Culture · 1.3 km · 16 min walk
Schools
Delhi Public School
Schools · 650 m · 8 min walk
St Mary's School
Schools · 1.2 km · 15 min walk
Healthcare
Apollo Clinic
Healthcare · 192 m · 2 min walk
Apollo Clinic
Healthcare · 896 m · 11 min walk
Worth knowing before you sign
Things to know
Traffic
4/1010 = flows freely
Sony World, Forum and Hosur Road junctions are slow all day; 3rd Block is calm.
Day to day
- 5th Block restaurant traffic nightly
- Hosur Road / Sony World junction noise
- Rapid construction of commercial floors
Water, power and roads
- Water
- Cauvery + borewell; tankers in April
- Power
- Stable
- Roads
- Mixed; 80 Feet Road decent
- Drainage
- Low blocks near the storm drain waterlog
Researched for Koramangala in September 2026 and source-attributed. Conditions change — confirm anything you would sign on.
Getting to work
Commute from Koramangala
MG Road (CBD)
Electronic City
Bellandur ORR
Local knowledge
Pockets of Koramangala
Micro-neighbourhoods each with their own character. Ask about these by name.
Building intelligence
Popular buildings
RMZ Verdant
Built 1988 · 13 floors
2 BHK ₹51K–₹63K
Total Environment Acropolis
Built 1998 · 13 floors · Pet friendly
2 BHK ₹42.5K–₹53K
Embassy Verdant
Built 1997 · 12 floors · Pet friendly
2 BHK ₹94K–₹1.16L
Brigade Lakefront
Built 1996 · 9 floors · Pet friendly
2 BHK ₹44.5K–₹55K
Embassy Heritage
Built 1989 · 8 floors
2 BHK ₹43.5K–₹54K
Total Environment Heritage
Built 2001 · 9 floors · Pet friendly
2 BHK ₹43.5K–₹54K
Keep exploring
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3 homesBellandur
The Outer Ring Road's engine room — towers, tech parks and ten-minute commutes.
2 BHK typical ₹36K /month
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