Having immovable property as one’s asset, first in the form of a residential site and then a dwelling to live in comfort without any hassles, including the burden of rent steadily soaring, is an important agenda of every urban resident, triggering the buzz in real estate business in cities of all classes, including many towns which are expanding to city status. Mysuru, the then small city Mysore, hosting a population that could be counted in thousands until a few decades ago, unlike the present counting in lakhs, comprised a handful of areas with clear territorial boundaries that qualified to be classified as villages, with their residents engaged mostly on agriculture, rearing livestock, traditional trades and meeting the daily needs of the residents pursuing other callings, gradually morphing Mysore of old to its present Mysuru, with its former village- like areas having vanished into thin air. Thanks to advances in materials such as cement as well as steel and technologies of constructing buildings, accompanied by economic prosperity of the residents, along with influx from other regions of the country, Mysuru’s realty has already changed the city’s skyline after occupying land on which stood food crops and plants bearing fruits and flowers.
With the steady rise in the city’s population, the number of its residents in pursuit of owning residential and commercial property, has crossed the limit of satisfying even a part of that number, resulting in the authorities resorting to change former agricultural lands in the vicinity of the city into layouts for raising dwellings. We are well into the era of high rise structures.
