Tathawade·Pune
2 BHK in Gera Lifespaces
₹26,000 / month
≈ ₹33,000 all-in · full breakdown1,054 sq ft · Semi-furnished · Floor 5 of 18
demoIllustrative demo listing, not live inventorySeeded 2 Sep 2026 · never presented as verified
The home
The essentials
Bedrooms
2 BHK
Bathrooms
2
Carpet area
1,054 sq ft
Furnishing
Semi-furnished
Floor
5 of 18
Facing
North-east
Parking
1 covered
Pets
Pets welcome
Preferred
Couples & families
A corner apartment with cross-ventilation with morning sun in the living room and a working kitchen that has actually been used. The landlord lives in the same building and looks after it well.
What you get
Amenities and features
- Confirmed
- Not available
- Not confirmed
Not confirmed means nobody has answered yet. It is not a no. Worth asking when you visit.
In Gera Lifespaces
11 of 27 answered
Essentials
- Lift, Yes
- Power backup, Not confirmed
- 24x7 security, Yes
- CCTV, Not confirmed
- Intercom, Yes
- Covered parking, Yes
- Visitor parking, Not confirmed
- 24x7 water, Yes
- Borewell or tanker backup, Not confirmed
- Fire safety, Yes
- Waste segregation, Not confirmed
- Rainwater harvesting, Yes
- EV charging, Not confirmed
Lifestyle
- Gym, Not confirmed
- Swimming pool, No
- Clubhouse, Not confirmed
- Landscaped garden, Not confirmed
- Children's play area, Yes
- Jogging track, Not confirmed
- Indoor games, Not confirmed
- Party hall, Not confirmed
- Sports court, Yes
Services
- Concierge, Not confirmed
- Society office, Not confirmed
- Housekeeping, Not confirmed
- On-site maintenance, Not confirmed
- Store in complex, Yes
In this home
5 of 21 answered
Layout
- Balcony, Yes
- Study, Yes
- Servant room, Not confirmed
- Utility area, Not confirmed
- Store room, Not confirmed
- Puja room, Not confirmed
- Private terrace, Not confirmed
Fit-out
- Modular kitchen, Not confirmed
- Fitted wardrobes, Not confirmed
- Air conditioning, Not confirmed
- Geyser, Yes
- Chimney, Yes
- Appliances included, Not confirmed
- False ceiling, Not confirmed
- Wooden flooring, Not confirmed
- Vitrified flooring, Not confirmed
Outlook
- Sea view, Not confirmed
- City view, Not confirmed
- Park view, Not confirmed
- Corner unit, Not confirmed
- Cross ventilation, Yes
The layout
Floor plan
Interactive plan. Dimensions and orientation; furniture placement planned for a later release.
Why it matches you
Tell us what matters and this becomes about you
We have nothing to match against yet, so there is no score here. Not a low one, none. A few questions and this section fills with your own reasons.
Location
Around you
Within a 10-minute walk
- 3 min walk
Copper Kettle
Coffee
- 3 min walk
Filter & Foam
Coffee
- 4 min walk
Wellness Forever
Pharmacy
See all 9 within a 10-minute walkShow fewer
- 4 min walk
Wellness Point
Healthcare
- 5 min walk
Barrel Room
Drink
- 7 min walk
Open-air Amphitheatre
Culture
8 min walkThe Green
Parks
- 10 min walk
Iron Works Gym
Fitness
- 10 min walk
Delhi Public School
Schools
Getting there
Your commutes
Hinjewadi (Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park)
18 min
SB Road
40 min
Deccan
45 min
Your destinations are timed from this home in current traffic; preset examples stay illustrative. Add destinations on any neighbourhood page. They follow you to every listing.
Move-in
Setting up your home
Furniture, decor and first-week supplies around this address. On demand, once the home itself is decided.
Move-in
Setting up your home
Furniture, decor and first-week supplies around this address. On demand, once the home itself is decided.
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 Tathawade
Groups, forums and how household help is actually hired here.
The people layer
Plug into Tathawade
Groups, forums and how household help is actually hired here.
The people layer
Plug into Tathawade
The groups where a lane actually talks, and how household help really gets hired here.
Groups & forums
r/pune
All Pune, the city's largest open forum — rental threads, area questions, recommendations
Pune Expats & New Residents (search Facebook Groups)
All Pune, several active relocation and expat groups run on Facebook — search by area name plus 'residents' to find your society's
Tathawade Residentssample
Tathawade, building & lane updates, water-cut and society notices
Tathawade Buy · Sell · Recommendsample
Tathawade, furniture hand-me-downs when leases turn over, trusted vendor recommendations
Tathawade Foodies & New-in-townsample
Tathawade, 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.
Pune's civic layer runs through housing-society managing committees and mohalla committees working with the PMC's ward offices. Your society's WhatsApp group is the real town square — ask the chairman or secretary to add you in the first week; ward-office numbers handle everything from water schedules to tree falls.
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.
Living here
Everything about Tathawade
1 BHK average
₹14.26K
2 BHK average
₹23K
3 BHK average
₹40.25K
4 BHK average
₹64.4K
Around this home
The precise version: real establishments near Gera Lifespaces in Tathawade, each pinned to its street or pocket.
Chemists
Near JSPM College and Kidzee Pre-School, Tathawade
Aundh-Ravet Road, Tathawade
Near Vision One Mall, Tathawade
Tathawade
Sources: Justdial listing (Wellness Chemist, Near Jspm College, Tathawade) · Justdial listing (Sangam Medico, Aundh-Ravet Road, Tathawade) · Justdial listing (Smart Chemist, Near Vision One Mall, Tathawade) · magicpin store page (Flora Chemist, Tathawade, Pune)
Laundry & dry clean
Tathawade
Legacy Crest, Punawale (serves Tathawade on pickup), Tathawade is named on the store's own served-areas list
Sources: Justdial listing (Uclean Laundry, Tathawade) · tumbledry.in Punawale (Pimpri-Chinchwad) store page
Cinemas
Wakad, on the Mumbai-Bangalore highway
Hinjawadi
Sources: District (district.in) Pune cinema listing, cinemas-in-pune
Markets & everyday
Tathawade
Sources: magicpin store page (Decathlon, Tathawade, Pune)
The honest traffic read
Tathawade has a traffic pattern nowhere else in this slice has: two big engineering campuses, JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering and Indira College, empty onto the same roads twice a day, and the 8.30-9.30am and 4-5.30pm college peaks land on top of the IT peak rather than beside it. The Aundh-Ravet road is the spine and it is wide; the failures are at Dange Chowk, at Kalewadi Phata further east, and at the Tathawade underpass, which residents told Free Press Journal in November 2025 is too narrow and needs widening along with Punawale's and Ravet's. Hinjawadi is close enough to be the draw and close enough that its 6.30pm exhaust flows back through here.
When the streets fill up
Ganeshotsav is loud and student-heavy in Tathawade because the college hostels and PG blocks stay open through it, and the mandal processions use the Aundh-Ravet road, with immersion convoys heading to the Pavana ghats at Ravet and Thergaon that PCMC listed among its 104 sites in September 2026. Ashadhi Wari matters indirectly: the July 2026 heavy-vehicle bans between Dehu Kaman and Bhakti Shakti and the closure of the Central Chowk to Bhakti Shakti stretch push traffic onto the highway service roads that Tathawade shares with Punawale.
Places verified against public listings on September 2026; hours and addresses change. Confirm before you rely on one.
The full Tathawade guide, schools, festivals, traffic, transport and moreOpen
Tathawade sits in the gap between Wakad's density and the expressway, and it has filled that gap with two things: engineering colleges and rental towers. The JSPM campuses bring a large student and faculty population, which keeps the food cheap and the PGs plentiful, while the newer projects take IT renters who want Wakad's access without Wakad's prices. It is well placed — Hinjewadi one way, Wakad and Aundh the other — and genuinely convenient for a car-owning couple. It is also unlovely in stretches: patchy footpaths, construction hoarding, a main road that carries far more than it should, and very little that anchors the place beyond the colleges. Do not expect quiet if you land near a campus gate.
Scores
Illustrative
Sport & fitness
Courts, turfs and places to run
- Pickleball / Badminton (9 sports listed)
Vedant Sports Academy LLP
Tathawade
- Box cricket / Cricket nets
TurfX Sports Arena
Tathawade
- Badminton / Table tennis
Metro Sports Arena
Tathawade
- Box cricket / Badminton
Neton Sports
Tathawade
- Box cricket / Football
Uj's Turf
Tathawade
- Box cricket / Pickleball
My Sports Club
Tathawade
- Cricket / Football (5 sports listed)
Sports City - Tathawade
Tathawade
Education
Schools and colleges nearby
- JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of EngineeringCollege · Tathawade campus; the area's largest single source of daily footfall
- Indira College of Engineering & ManagementCollege · Tathawade campus, part of the Indira group cluster
- Indira College of PharmacyCollege · Tathawade (listed on Justdial under Chinchwad)
- Rajarshi Shahu College of EducationCollege · Tathawade, B.Ed campus of the JSPM group
- Orchids The International School, TathawadeSchool · CBSE
- Indira National SchoolSchool · CBSE, Tathawade, founded 2005
- Akshara International SchoolSchool · CBSE, Tathawade, founded 2015
- JSPM's Blossom Public SchoolSchool · CBSE, Tathawade
- Ashwini International SchoolSchool · ICSE, Tathawade, established 2012
The calendar
Festivals, crowds and what to expect
No traffic advisory we have read names Tathawade for a festival. That does not mean the year is quiet here. It means the disruption has not been big enough to reach a published advisory, which is a useful thing to know but not the same as silence.
Also noted locally in Tathawade
Ganesh Chaturthi
Aug–Sep, 10 daysGaneshotsav is loud and student-heavy in Tathawade because the college hostels and PG blocks stay open through it, and the mandal processions use the Aundh-Ravet road, with immersion convoys heading to the Pavana ghats at Ravet and Thergaon that PCMC listed among its 104 sites in September 2026.
Ashadhi Wari
Jun–Jul, palkhi fortnightAshadhi Wari matters indirectly: the July 2026 heavy-vehicle bans between Dehu Kaman and Bhakti Shakti and the closure of the Central Chowk to Bhakti Shakti stretch push traffic onto the highway service roads that Tathawade shares with Punawale.
Area-level colour from our own research, without a road-level advisory behind it. The dated calendar above is the sourced layer.
Worth knowing
- Two college peaks (roughly 8.30-9.30am and 4-5.30pm) stacked on top of the IT peak
- PG and hostel density means late-night noise on the streets nearest the campuses
- The Tathawade underpass is too narrow and was formally flagged for widening (Free Press Journal, Nov 2025)
- Belt-wide construction dust and RMC-plant emissions
- Tanker water in the dry months
- Dange Chowk and Kalewadi Phata jams on the way east
The decibel calculator— how loud does it actually get here?
Estimated at a Tathawade home · Aug–Sep
80–95 dB
Like a loud procession passing — you'll pause conversations near windows.
Pune's defining ten days — mandal loudspeakers, dhol-tasha pathaks and immersion processions converging on Laxmi Road and the river ghats; MPCB monitoring has repeatedly logged readings above 100 dB along the procession corridors.
Modelled estimate (noise-v1.0) from this area's festival calendar and quietness, anchored to MPCB Ganeshotsav monitoring. Laxmi Road procession corridors have repeatedly measured above 100 dB during visarjan. Not a measurement at your window — but an honest basis for the decision.
On the ground
Traffic and infrastructure
Tathawade has a traffic pattern nowhere else in this slice has: two big engineering campuses, JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering and Indira College, empty onto the same roads twice a day, and the 8.30-9.30am and 4-5.30pm college peaks land on top of the IT peak rather than beside it. The Aundh-Ravet road is the spine and it is wide; the failures are at Dange Chowk, at Kalewadi Phata further east, and at the Tathawade underpass, which residents told Free Press Journal in November 2025 is too narrow and needs widening along with Punawale's and Ravet's. Hinjawadi is close enough to be the draw and close enough that its 6.30pm exhaust flows back through here.
- Roads
- The Aundh-Ravet road is wide and well-surfaced and is the reason Tathawade works at all. Off it, the Tathawade underpass is a named bottleneck that residents asked PCMC to widen in November 2025, and the lanes between the college campuses and the newer towers are narrow with parking on both sides.
- Water
- PCMC supply, with the same belt-wide problem: residents of Punawale-Ravet-Tathawade reported very poor supply and routine tanker purchase to Free Press Journal in November 2025. Student PG blocks and hostels add load that the network was not sized for.
- Power
- MSEDCL urban feeders, generally stable, with the inconsistency residents flagged in November 2025.
- Drainage & monsoon
- Mixed. The older Tathawade gaothan and the Jeevan Nagar side have legacy drains; the new layouts have storm-water lines that were laid ahead of the buildings. Waterlogging shows up at the underpass mouths rather than in the layouts.
Getting around
Public transport and last mile
- Metro
- No station in Tathawade. Line 3 (Hinjawadi-Shivajinagar, 23 km/23 stations) had completed end-to-end trial runs and its Maan-R.K. Laxman Museum phase (13.3 km, 12 stations) was 'ready for opening subject to statutory approvals' as of PuneNow, 18 June 2026; an earlier Swarajya report had it opening 31 March 2026, which did not happen, so treat it as imminent rather than running. Its nearest stations are on the Wakad/Hinjawadi side of the corridor, a 4-6 km feeder ride. A Nigdi-Chakan Phase 2 corridor (40.9 km, 31 stations, Rs 10,383 cr) with stations listed at Bhakti-Shakti Chowk, Ravet, Punawale, Tathawade, Wakad, Nashik Phata, Bhosari MIDC and Moshi had a revised plan ready in April 2026 but was still awaiting PCMC approval - proposed, not sanctioned (Punekar News, 7 Apr 2026).
- Rail
- None relevant. Akurdi and Chinchwad are the nearest stations on the Lonavala line; nobody commutes on them.
- Bus
- PMPML on the Aundh-Ravet road and the highway service road, plus heavy private and college bus traffic. IT company shuttles to Hinjawadi are the practical service.
- Last mile
- Autos are easy near the college gates and Dange Chowk because of the student demand - the best last-mile in this slice - but two-wheelers still dominate.
Running a home
Staff, deliveries and everyday life
What it costs in Pune
- part-time cleaning (jhadu-pocha)₹4.5k – ₹10k / month
MyBuddyMaid's Pune page quotes INR 4,500-9,000/month for a part-time maid, defined as '1-4 hours a day - sweeping-mopping, utensils, dusting and laundry on a fixed daily slot'. Broomees, which operates in Pune, quotes INR 6,000-10,000/month for part-time maids across its service cities. MyBuddyMaid explicitly labels its numbers 'indicative monthly bands, not quotes' and publishes identical bands for every city, so they carry no Pune-specific signal.
Moves with: Hours per day, days per week, tasks included, household and home size, locality.
- cook, one meal₹10k – ₹18k / month
IMPORTANT - not split by number of meals. MyBuddyMaid's Pune page quotes INR 10,000-18,000/month for a cook covering 'one or more daily meal slots, matched to your cuisine and diet preferences'. No Pune-specific source separates a one-meal from a two-meal rate.
Moves with: Number of meal slots, cuisine, family size.
- full-time live-out₹12.5k – ₹26k / month
Broomees quotes INR 12,500-20,000/month for full-time maids across its cities including Pune. MyBuddyMaid's Pune page quotes INR 16,000-26,000/month for a full-time maid working '8-12 hours a day (or live-in) who handles all daily household chores' - its band does not separate live-out from live-in.
Moves with: Hours, task mix, household size, locality.
- nanny / childcare₹14k – ₹24k / month
MyBuddyMaid's Pune page quotes INR 14,000-24,000/month for 'trained childcare help for infants, toddlers and school-age children'. Band is not Pune-specific.
Moves with: Child's age, number of children, live-in vs live-out, training.
- elder care₹15k – ₹25k / month
MyBuddyMaid's Pune page quotes INR 15,000-25,000/month for 'non-medical companionship and daily assistance for senior citizens at home'. Band is not Pune-specific.
Moves with: Level of assistance, night duty, live-in vs live-out.
How people actually find someone
Broomees
Operates in Pune alongside Delhi NCR, Bangalore and Ranchi, placing all-rounders, cooks, babysitters, domestic help, elderly and patient care providers and 24-hour live-in workers. The household books online and Broomees sends vetted candidates; it states the salary 'is to be mutually discussed and directly managed between the customer and the helper' and that it takes no cut from the worker's salary.
Cost: INR 49 booking fee plus 18% GST (about INR 57.82), periodically waived for the all-rounder service, plus a monthly membership fee. Salary is paid directly to the worker.
MyBuddyMaid
Placement platform with a dedicated Pune city page and pincode-level service pages. One-time access fee for a verified candidate pool; the household interviews and agrees the salary with the helper after the interview.
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, operating since 2016; households buy a hiring package to view profiles and interview candidates.
Cost: Tiered one-off hiring packages paid by the household; states no commission and no monthly fees on the worker's salary.
MyGate
Used by Pune societies for visitor management, resident communication and society accounting - 27,000+ communities and 5 million+ homes across 50+ cities. Daily help are normally admitted on a resident-issued gate code or pass.
Cost: Paid by the society.
In Tathawade: Tathawade gaothan and the wastis on the Punawale side supply full-time help at the lowest end of Pune rates, and the student population means part-time cooks and tiffin services are unusually easy to find. , our own read on the area, without a source behind it, unlike everything above.
What the law says
There is no legal minimum wage for domestic work here.
Domestic work is not a scheduled employment in this state, so nothing sets a floor. That makes what you pay a matter of conscience rather than compliance.
Police verification
Maharashtra's procedure applies: the household applies for a domestic help / servant verification at the nearest police station, submitting a passport-size photograph of the worker and a photo identity proof (Aadhaar, driving licence, ration card, voter ID or PAN). Guidance on the state procedure states it is advisory rather than compulsory, and that the resulting verification report has no fixed validity period - it lasts as long as whoever is relying on it accepts it. For a formal police clearance certificate, Maharashtra runs pcs.mahaonline.gov.in, a six-step flow (registration, login, application, fee payment, verification by the local police station, verification by the citizen facilitation centre) with a 24x7 helpline on 1800 120 8040. Unlike Mumbai Police, Pune City Police does not publish a dedicated online domestic-servant form that could be verified; its site is a JavaScript application whose forms section could not be read.
The official pageWorth knowing
- Pune has no legal wage floor for domestic work. The nearest honest benchmark is Maharashtra's general unskilled minimum wage, about INR 13,921/month Zone I from 1 January 2026 - a full-time live-out worker paid less than that is being paid below what the state considers the floor for unskilled work in any other sector.
- Registration with the Maharashtra Domestic Workers Welfare Board is the worker's own entitlement and is voluntary; the 2008 Act imposes no registration duty on employers and no employer contribution. A fair employer helps with the paperwork - and with free e-Shram registration - and deducts nothing for either.
- Pune's IT-corridor societies (Hinjewadi, Kharadi, Baner, Wakad) are largely gated with app-based entry, so a new worker cannot get in until the resident adds her at the gate. Check the society's rules on daily-help entry hours and lift access before you sign a lease, and refuse any rule that requires a worker to leave an original ID document at the gate.
- The ILO's 2017 employer survey covered Delhi and Mumbai, not Pune, but its finding on hiring channels is the best available guide to how this works anywhere in urban India: 51% of employer households found their worker through neighbours, 21% through other domestic workers already working nearby, and only 2% through a formal agency. Expect the same in Pune, and expect that a referral chain costs nothing - do not let anyone charge the incoming worker for an introduction.
- Written terms cost nothing and prevent most disputes: hours, tasks, the monthly amount, the pay date, paid leave, notice on both sides, and the festival bonus if you intend to give one. The ILO survey found written contracts rare, and that workers typically expected two to four days off a month with wage deduction for that leave already declining as a practice.
- The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 covers domestic workers, with the route being the district Local Committee rather than an internal committee. Awareness among workers is close to zero - the Martha Farrell Foundation's 2018 study of 291 domestic workers found none had approached a Local Committee.
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 Tathawade
- Vision One Mall is the local anchor for everyday retail; Decathlon Tathawade is the one large-format store inside the area
- Four named chemists inside Tathawade, clustered near JSPM College and Vision One Mall
- Seven Playo-listed sports venues inside the area - the densest turf and badminton supply in this slice
- Tiffin services and low-cost mess food are abundant because of the college population
- Cinemas are at Wakad (Phoenix) and Hinjawadi (Grand Highstreet), both 10-20 minutes depending on the hour
Where this data comes from— provenance, field by fieldOpen
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.
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