★ SOSA real estate scenting
The moment a buyer steps into your sales office, breathes in, and starts imagining the life - engineered with scent, held every day
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"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
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"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
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"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
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"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
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"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
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"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
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"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
★★★★★
"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
★★★★★
"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
✓ Waterless cold-air nebulising - consistent throw up to ~1000m³, app + timer scheduling ✓ Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents ✓ HVAC systems for experience centres to 18,000 sq ft · made in India
Founder Diaries · Real Estate Scent Marketing
What is borrowed domestic memory in scent marketing? It is the mechanism by which a fragrance lends a new space the feeling of remembered ones. Smell is wired directly into the brain's memory and emotion centres, and its associations are unusually durable - so a register built on warm, domestic notes (soft sandalwood, gentle citrus-floral, white tea) retrieves the buyer's own archive: homes that felt loved, hotel rooms that felt like an occasion. A brand-new flat has no history; the right scent borrows one. That is why the register choice matters more than intensity - Warm Welcome (citrus, floral, sandalwood, from Rs 299) is built from exactly these memory-adjacent notes - and why paint smell is so costly: it retrieves the wrong archive entirely, of sites, renovations and things not yet finished.
Is the premium effect of fragrance in a show flat actually proven? The mechanism is well supported at honest effect sizes: across ambient scenting studies, pleasant and congruent fragrance reliably improves evaluations of a space, its perceived quality and the time people spend in it - moderate effects, repeatedly replicated, strongest when the scent matches the setting and stays gentle. What no study supports is magic: fragrance does not change a flat's carpet area, location or price, and a strong scent actively backfires - overdosing reads as effort, and masking reads as concealment. The premium effect is the compound interest of small congruent signals. In practice: air the construction smells out first, run a warm register at whisper level on a Sukoon (Rs 1,799, blends from Rs 299), and let the staging, the materials and the air agree with each other.
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Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
Two identical sample flats: same furniture, same lighting, same marble. One feels styled; the other feels expensive. The difference is usually the air. Fragrance makes a flat feel premium through three mechanisms - borrowed memory, perceived-quality transfer, and synergy with the staging - and none of them requires the buyer to consciously notice a scent at all. Here is how the effect actually works.
Quick answers — read this first
How does fragrance make a sample flat feel premium? Through three quiet mechanisms. First, borrowed memory: a warm domestic register calls up the homes and hotels a buyer has loved, and the flat inherits that feeling - the rooms smell like a life already lived well. Second, perceived-quality transfer: ambient scent research consistently shows pleasant, congruent fragrance improves how people rate a space - the same marble and veneer are judged finer in composed air. Third, synergy: staging, lighting and materials are visual promises, and scent is the sense that confirms them; when the channels agree, the flat reads as finished, cared for, expensive. The hardware is modest - a Sukoon (Rs 1,799) with a Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299), whisper-dosed. The effects are real and moderate; the flat's bones still matter most.What is borrowed domestic memory in scent marketing? It is the mechanism by which a fragrance lends a new space the feeling of remembered ones. Smell is wired directly into the brain's memory and emotion centres, and its associations are unusually durable - so a register built on warm, domestic notes (soft sandalwood, gentle citrus-floral, white tea) retrieves the buyer's own archive: homes that felt loved, hotel rooms that felt like an occasion. A brand-new flat has no history; the right scent borrows one. That is why the register choice matters more than intensity - Warm Welcome (citrus, floral, sandalwood, from Rs 299) is built from exactly these memory-adjacent notes - and why paint smell is so costly: it retrieves the wrong archive entirely, of sites, renovations and things not yet finished.
Is the premium effect of fragrance in a show flat actually proven? The mechanism is well supported at honest effect sizes: across ambient scenting studies, pleasant and congruent fragrance reliably improves evaluations of a space, its perceived quality and the time people spend in it - moderate effects, repeatedly replicated, strongest when the scent matches the setting and stays gentle. What no study supports is magic: fragrance does not change a flat's carpet area, location or price, and a strong scent actively backfires - overdosing reads as effort, and masking reads as concealment. The premium effect is the compound interest of small congruent signals. In practice: air the construction smells out first, run a warm register at whisper level on a Sukoon (Rs 1,799, blends from Rs 299), and let the staging, the materials and the air agree with each other.
The short answer
Short answer: Fragrance makes a sample flat feel premium via three mechanisms: borrowed domestic memory (warm notes retrieve homes the buyer has loved), perceived-quality transfer (pleasant congruent scent raises ratings of the same materials), and synergy with staging and lighting. Whisper-dosed over clean air: Sukoon Rs 1,799, Warm Welcome from Rs 299. Real but moderate effects. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The pick: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) for sales offices to ~1000m³; small-office systems from ₹1,799; HVAC from ₹25,999.
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In this guide
A home purchase is the largest, most emotional transaction most families ever make - months of comparison ending in a decision that is mostly feeling. Scent marketing gives your sales office, gallery and sample flat a signature: one refined fragrance, held evenly, running on a schedule no staff member has to remember. Buyers experience it as "this developer feels premium" - the exact feeling that precedes a booking.
The sales office standard
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Small offices & cabins
Ultrasonic systems from ₹1,799
Experience centres
HVAC systems from ₹25,999
Straight answer
What actually happens, in the buyer's head, when a sample flat smells right?
The mechanism, in five parts. 1. The borrowed memory. Smell retrieves emotion and memory faster than any other sense. A warm domestic register - the Warm Welcome blend's citrus, floral and sandalwood, from the Hotel Collection (from ₹299) - calls up the buyer's own archive of loved homes and fine hotels, and the new flat inherits the feeling. Paint smell retrieves the opposite archive: sites, renovations, unfinished things. 2. The quality transfer. Ambient scenting research shows pleasant, congruent fragrance improves how a space's quality and service are rated - the same marble reads finer in composed air. Moderate effects, reliably replicated. 3. The synergy. Staging and lighting are visual promises; scent is the confirming sense. When sight and smell agree, the flat files as finished and cared for - what buyers call premium without knowing why. 4. The discipline. The effect only works whisper-dosed over clean air: ventilate construction smells at the source, then run a Sukoon (₹1,799) intermittently in the living area - a Megh (₹3,499) for duplex volumes. Noticeable fragrance reads as effort; masked paint reads as concealment. 5. The limits. No register changes carpet area, location or price - scent perfects the visit, not the project; the gallery outside runs its own Vaayu (₹11,999) on the same signature. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 to match a register to your flat's styling. Made in India; a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
One line: premium feel = borrowed memory (warm notes retrieve loved homes) + quality transfer (better ratings in composed air) + staging synergy - whisper-dosed on a Sukoon ₹1,799, blends from ₹299. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The sales office standard most developers choose: the SOSA Vaayu - waterless cold-air scenting to ~1000m³, Bluetooth app and timer, one signature on schedule - at ₹11,999. Small-office systems from ₹1,799; experience-centre HVAC from ₹25,999. Or WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a free sizing consult.
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The three mechanisms behind the feeling
The three mechanisms, one at a time - memory, transfer, synergy.
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Mechanism one
Borrowed memory - the flat inherits a past it never had
A sample flat's deepest problem is that it is new: no meals have been cooked in it, no festivals celebrated, no afternoons slept through - and newness, for all its appeal on a spec sheet, feels blank to stand inside. Scent is the one staging tool that can lend the space a past, because smell is wired straight into the brain's memory and emotion centres and its associations outlast almost every other kind: a note of soft sandalwood or gentle citrus-floral warmth does not just smell pleasant, it retrieves - a grandmother's cupboard, a favourite hotel room, the good years of some remembered home. The buyer walks into your brand-new flat and feels, wordlessly, that a good life has already been lived here; the rehearsal of their own future life gets that borrowed foundation under it. The Warm Welcome register (citrus, floral, sandalwood, from ₹299) is composed from exactly these memory-adjacent notes.
Tip: a new flat has no history - the register lends it one, drawn from the buyer's own best rooms.
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Mechanism two
The quality transfer - same marble, better verdict
The second mechanism is the strange one, and the best documented: pleasant ambient scent changes how people judge things that have nothing to do with smell. Across ambient scenting studies, spaces with pleasant, congruent, gently dosed fragrance are rated better on quality, comfort and service than identical unscented ones - the flooring is judged finer, the finish more careful, the wait shorter. The honest caveats are part of the finding: effects are moderate, they demand congruence (a scent that suits the space) and restraint (levels near the threshold of awareness), and they collapse when the scent is loud, mismatched or laid over bad air. For a sample flat this is precise leverage: the developer has already paid for the marble, the veneer, the fittings - the register is what determines whether buyers rate those materials at their full worth. Composed air does not upgrade the flat; it lets the flat be judged at its best, which is what every rupee of the staging budget is for.
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Mechanism three
Synergy - the senses must tell one story
Premium is not a feature; it is a verdict the buyer's senses reach together - and it is fragile, because the senses cross-check each other. A flat can look expensive and be undone by one wrong channel: gallery lighting plus paint smell equals staged set; velvet cushions plus phenyl equals maintenance flat. The premium verdict arrives only when every channel testifies to the same story - warm light, soft textiles, fine materials, and air that smells like the life the styling depicts. That is congruence, and it cuts register selection down to a craft decision: a pale, minimalist flat wants White Tea Serenity's clean calm; warm woods and brass want Warm Welcome's domestic glow; a flat sold as the office signature's home expression wants Quiet Luxury a shade warmer. The scent must also match in volume - whisper-dosed, because restraint is itself part of the luxury story every other channel is telling. When the story has no seams, buyers stop itemising and simply believe it.
Tip: the buyer's senses cross-examine each other - the scent must corroborate what the styling claims.
The SOSA principle
Buyers never praise the fragrance - they praise the flat: finished, calm, somehow expensive. The scent works precisely because it is never identified.
Borrowed memory, quality transfer, sensory synergy - three mechanisms, all operating below the level of comment.
Building the effect in your flat
Turning the mechanisms into a working setup.
The SOSA scent edit
The premium-feel formula
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| The memory · from ₹299 | Warm Welcome - citrus, floral, sandalwood; the loved-home archive. |
| The transfer · whisper dose | Gentle congruent scent lifts ratings of space, materials and service. |
| The synergy · staging + air | Lighting, textiles and register telling one story - no seams. |
| The hardware · ₹1,799 | Sukoon in the living area, timer-scheduled, over aired-out clean air. |
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A sales office buyers remember by smell
The Vaayu sales office machine at ₹11,999, small-office systems from ₹1,799, HVAC scenting to 18,000 sq ft - one signature, on schedule, hands-off. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Buyers never say the flat smelled premium - they say it felt finished, somehow. That somehow is the air.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA real estate edit
Whatever you build and sell, the system logic is the same: one signature, sized to the space, scheduled so it never depends on a staff member's memory. Every SOSA system is supported from India, and the Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's own interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents - run across all of them. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Here is the full commercial range.
The SOSA real estate edit
Size the system to the space - sales cabins to flagship experience centres
| System | Best for | Why it works | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sukoon + Hotel Collection | Small offices, cabins & meeting rooms | 500ml ultrasonic mist for compact sales cabins, broker offices and consultation corners - the entry system | ₹1,799 + ₹299 |
| Megh (6L) | Mid-size sales offices | Large-tank ultrasonic for single-floor offices - long unattended runs through visiting hours | ₹3,499 |
| SOSA Vaayu ★ | Sales offices & galleries to ~1000m³ | Waterless cold-air nebulising, Bluetooth app + timer - the professional sales office standard | ₹11,999 |
| SOSA Aangan | Experience centres 8,000-10,000 sq ft | HVAC nebulising diffuser - one signature through the duct system, every zone of the centre | ₹25,999 |
| SOSA Meenar | Flagship centres 12,000-18,000 sq ft | The large-property HVAC system for flagship experience centres, clubhouses and townships | ₹38,500 |
| Hotel Collection refills | Every system's running cost | 100ml ₹999 / 300ml - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents | from ₹999 |
Honest notes for developers: scent marketing's effects on dwell time, perceived quality and recall are real but moderate - fragrance compounds a well-run sales office and rescues nothing; the premises must be clean, cool and well ventilated first, and no fragrance sells a badly located or badly priced project. Fresh paint, POP and construction smells should be aired out at the source before any scenting - the fragrance is the finishing layer over clean air, never a mask. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations inspired by the world's finest hotels; SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel or real estate brand. Ultrasonic systems use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance; the Vaayu and HVAC systems run waterless nebulising oil - the formats are not interchangeable. WhatsApp consult: +91 96192 18531. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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A note from Sonal
Developers understand experience better than almost any other business - you spend crores on the sales gallery, light the scale model like a jewel, dress the sample flat down to the books on the shelf. And then, in most projects, the air itself is left to chance: the site dust, the fresh paint, the phenyl from the morning mopping. The largest purchase your buyer will ever make deserves better air than that.
I trained at ISIPCA in Versailles, where the world's scent-marketing perfumers learn the craft, and what I build for Indian sales offices is the same architecture the global hospitality brands use: one signature, sized to the space, run on a schedule - so the scent is as reliable as your lighting. The machines matter (throw, coverage, scheduling), but the strategy matters more, and it is in every guide we publish. If you want it applied to your specific project, message us on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 - I read the project descriptions myself.
Everything is made or assembled for Indian conditions, supported from Pune - and a part of every order funds girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Your brand gets a memory; a girl gets a classroom. That equation has always felt right to me.
Frequently asked questions
If the fragrance is doing so much work, why do buyers never mention it?
Because it is designed not to be mentioned - the effect lives below the level of comment. At whisper calibration the register sits near the threshold of awareness: the buyer's senses register composed, cared-for air, but attention never lands on the fragrance as a thing, so the credit flows to the flat itself - which is exactly where you want it. Listen to what visitors do say: the flat feels ready to move into, feels calm, feels somehow more finished than the one they saw across the road. Those adjectives are the scent working under its own name-lessness. The corollary is the operator's most counterintuitive rule: a buyer complimenting the fragrance directly - lovely perfume, what is that smell - is usually a calibration warning, not a win, because it means the scent has climbed above awareness and started competing with the flat for attention. The target state is a flat that gets praised and a fragrance that never gets caught.
Does the premium effect work on investors as well as end-user families?
Yes, through a different door. End-user families run the emotional rehearsal - the borrowed-memory mechanism does its fullest work on people imagining their own mornings in the rooms. Investors process the same air as evidence rather than emotion: a composed, cared-for flat signals a developer who finishes things, controls details and will likely maintain the asset's premium positioning - all directly relevant to an investment thesis about resale value and rentability. The perceived-quality transfer operates identically on both: an investor rates the same fittings finer in composed air just as a family does, because the mechanism is perceptual, not sentimental. What shifts is only the register's optimal expression - investor-heavy projects can run the signature slightly cleaner and less domestic, closer to the office's own depth. Either way the honest limit stands: scent shapes the visit's verdict, and no investor's spreadsheet changes because the living room smells of sandalwood.
Would a stronger, more luxurious fragrance make the flat feel even more premium?
No - the relationship inverts past the whisper point, and understanding why protects the budget. Loudness and luxury are opposites in scent: the five-star lobbies that taught the world this discipline run their signatures at the edge of perception, and it is the mall kiosk and the perfume counter that broadcast. A strong fragrance in a small flat fails on all three mechanisms at once: it stops retrieving warm memory and starts registering as product; it reverses the quality transfer, because effortful scenting reads as compensation - what is this covering? - and it breaks synergy, since restrained styling plus loud air is a story with a seam in it. The premium move is always subtraction: a finer register, gently dosed, over genuinely clean air. If the flat does not feel premium at whisper level, the fix is never more output - it is a better register match to the styling, or an honest look at what the base air smells of before the machine starts.
How do we match the fragrance to our flat's specific interior style?
Read the styling as a brief and pick the register that says the same thing in scent. Pale, minimalist, airy flats - light oak, whites, linen - want White Tea Serenity: clean calm that matches the visual restraint, where a rich sandalwood would smell heavier than the rooms look. Warm contemporary flats - wood tones, brass, terracotta, deep textiles - want Warm Welcome (citrus, floral, sandalwood): domestic glow matching the visual warmth. Flats positioned as the premium expression of the brand's gallery - where the buyer walks from a Quiet Luxury office into the home version of the same promise - run Quiet Luxury itself, a shade warmer than the office dose. The test for a match is the seam check: stand in the styled living room, breathe, and ask whether the air could plausibly belong to the photograph the room is staged to be. All the registers are from the Hotel Collection (from Rs 299), so auditioning two against the actual styling for a weekend costs almost nothing and settles the question with real noses.
How quickly does the effect fade once the machine is off - and does it carry between visits?
In the room, composed air persists for a while after the machine stops - still air in a closed flat holds the register through gaps between viewing slots, which is why an intermittent schedule keeps a flat continuously presentable without continuous output; the practical rule is simply to let the timer run through the visiting day rather than switching off at quiet moments. In the buyer, the carry is much longer and is the real prize: scent-linked impressions are among the most durable memories the brain forms, so the family that toured five projects over a weekend retains your flat filed with a feeling - warm, finished, already loved - while the others blur into floor plans. On a second visit the recognition works actively: the same register at the same level greets them as a promise kept. Which is why consistency outweighs everything - same blend, same dose, every visit for the life of the campaign; each rotation or lapse resets the file the fragrance spent weeks building.
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SOSA — real estate scent marketing for the sales office buyers remember
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About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA commercial range; the scent-marketing strategy advice applies to any developer's systems.Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.