the rising priceline of real estate properties over the years due to the concentration of upcoming factories and research and development units of big corporates in secondary cities has pushed hundreds of denizens to look at cities away from the major metropolis delhi mumbai calcutta chennai and bangalore to put in their pie for a precious little apartment in the future the next five years should see the chota but not so mota cities like gurgaon and noida near delhi pune in maharastra mysore in karnataka coimbatore in tamil nadu and baroda in gujarat and emerging metros like hyderabadsecunderabad in andhra pradesh ahmedabadgandhinagar in gujarat and kochi in kerala as the prime centres for purchasing apartments there is a vast difference in terms of costs between the majors and the emerging cities and at the same time people find the quality of life in terms of infrastructure accessibility and entertainment are a great deal better in several of the secondary cities these cities have that aura of being a top class city with lifestyles no less than the metros several of the big players in the real estate industry like the richard ellis colliers jardine purvankara builders and rahejas are keeping a close watch on the developments in the secondary cities there is bound to be hectic activity they all agree says irshad one of the real estate agents of bangalore while the garden city is still the fastest growing metro in india with enquiries coming steadily moves by software majors like infosys to set up a rd unit in mysore has propelled other companies to follow suit mysore is being looked up as a city which has good accessibility and an equally good climate and the cosmo auro is also there this has already got several clients to look at mysore for their buy a sweet little home there mhussain who runs the auto associates another popular real estate agent from the it mecca of india says the situation has improved in mumbai a great deal with the property prices coming down drastically where the priceline was ruling at rs 11000 to rs 12000 per square feet for commercial properties today it has come down in the range of rs 6000 to rs 7000 and even the prices of residential properties have been slashed down by a clear 30 per cent to 40 per cent but still it is away from the reach of the buyers pune is doing very well even better than mumbai mujahid alam regional manager of mistral solutions pointed out that pune is a good city because there is lot of greenary and it is a fun loving city and you can stay in pune and go to goa for the beaches and partying in the weekends another city for the future would be kochi we at mistral solutions are looking at kochi for starting an office because of the policy of the kerala government to set up a software technology park stp there