Casagrand Premier Builder Limited is a Chennai-based developer established in 2003, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, developing residential and mixed-use projects across South India. Under founder Arun MN, the company has expanded its presence across key micro-markets in Chennai, offering a diverse range of residential projects, and has developed in-house capabilities for every stage of the project development life-cycle, from land identification and acquisition through design, construction, marketing, sales and delivery. By early 2026, the company had delivered 103 completed projects encompassing 21.79 million square feet of saleable area, and had 57 ongoing projects spanning 44.10 million square feet of saleable area. Its scale in the city is significant: filings ahead of its planned IPO described Casagrand as the largest developer in the residential sector in Chennai, with a market share of approximately 24% in terms of launches and approximately 20% in terms of demand during the period January 1, 2017 to March 31, 2024. In January 2025, its subsidiary Casagrand Premier received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India for an initial public offering. The company's operating base has also widened beyond Chennai: it entered Bengaluru in 2014 with its debut project, Casagrand Luxus, and it has expanded into Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Coimbatore, with international sales driven by its office in Dubai.
Casagrand's presence in Kalavakkam is built around Casagrand Southbrooke, part of a kids-themed community format the company pioneered in Chennai. In 2019, Casagrand launched Asta, described as Chennai's first kids-themed project, and Southbrooke extends that concept to the OMR-ECR link corridor. Southbrooke's Kalavakkam land parcel spans 13.2 acres, with 524 units on 7.2 acres forming Phase 2. Phase 1 is registered as Southbrooke, the kids-centric apartment community, under Rera No. TN/01/Building/515/2022, while Phase 2 carries Rera No. TN/35/Building/0413/2024. Configurations across the two phases run largely to 1BHK, 2BHK and 3BHK apartments, delivered in two towers of five floors each, with 671 units spread over roughly 7.21 acres in Phase 1. Phase 2 adds 524 apartments set amidst 7.2 acres in Kalavakkam, built as a B+G+5 floor structure with vehicle-free podiums and around 4 acres of landscaped area.
The demand response has been strong: across both phases, listings note Phase 1 and 2 units sold out. Amenity provisioning is dense for a mid-rise community: the combined project offers 180 amenities of outdoor and indoor recreational facilities, two ultra-modern clubhouses totalling 27,500 sq.ft., and 10,000 sq.ft. of swimming pools and water-based recreational amenities, with 7.5 acres of open space, encompassing 60% of the land area excluding building footprints. Phase 2 alone carries amenities such as a futsal court, bocce ball, box cricket and beach volleyball court, outdoor and indoor gyms, yoga and meditation decks, and walking, jogging and cycling tracks along the community periphery. Design planning across the project follows five pillars — light, ventilation, vaastu, privacy and aesthetics — with the homes built as 100% Vaastu-compliant.
Kalavakkam sits immediately beside Kelambakkam, the junction town where OMR meets the roads to ECR and GST Road. Kelambakkam is located along OMR, about 5 km from Siruseri IT park and 12 km from Sholinganallur junction, and is the junction after Sholinganallur that connects GST Road at Vandalur with ECR at Kovalam. This dual-corridor access is the reason multiple locality analyses describe the belt as a connector rather than a pure suburb: positioned between OMR and ECR, Kelambakkam plays a role connecting the city's technology-driven employment corridor with its premium coastal residential belt, transforming it from a peripheral suburb into a high-potential residential and investment hotspot. For a developer whose Chennai portfolio is concentrated in growth corridors, Kalavakkam extends the same logic that has driven Casagrand's projects in OMR, ECR, Sholinganallur, Medavakkam, Pallavaram and other prominent locations.
Southbrooke's own location notes place it within a short radius of core transit points: Kelambakkam Junction, Thiruporur Bus Depot and Kelambakkam Bus Stand are each about 5 minutes away, with the proposed metro railway station at Siruseri roughly 15 minutes out. A metro line under construction is expected to change the corridor's access profile materially: Metro Phase 2 connecting Madhavaram with Siruseri IT Park is under process, with the corridor targeted to be operational by 2027 and expected to be a game changer for development along OMR. Road capacity has also been upgraded on the Chennai-South side, with the Tamil Nadu government building a 45-acre, Rs 410 crore bus terminus at Vandalur, reachable in about 20 minutes via Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road, described as set to be the largest bus terminus in Asia and operational from 2023.
Education and healthcare infrastructure around Kalavakkam is unusually dense for a peripheral locality. The Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, situated in Kalavakkam adjacent to Kelambakkam, has an expansive central library covering 2,215 square meters. The Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road stretch nearby is anchored by prestigious national and international schools along with leading institutions like VIT Chennai, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, and Hindustan University. On the healthcare side, project listings point to Alpha Multi Speciality Hospital roughly 3 minutes away, with Chettinad Health City and Supreme Speciality Hospital about 22 minutes out.
Kalavakkam and Kelambakkam sit at the more accessible end of the OMR pricing curve. Citywide, Guduvancheri, Kelambakkam, Urapakkam and Siruseri offer property rates up to Rs 4,500 per sq ft, while OMR proper falls into the mid-segment band of Rs 4,500 to Rs 6,000 per sq ft. That gap is a deliberate part of the corridor's appeal, since as land becomes scarce and expensive in OMR and ECR, Kelambakkam offers more affordable options with similar access, driving strong buyer interest. Demand fundamentals along the wider OMR belt remain employment-led: anchored by IT/ITES expansion and Global Capability Centres, OMR represents a stable, employment-driven property market rather than a volatility-prone investment zone. Locally, rental demand is reinforced by the education base, since IT professionals, students, and healthcare workers create steady rental demand in and around Kelambakkam.
For a buyer evaluating Casagrand Premier Builder Limited's Kalavakkam offering, the calculus combines a scaled, IPO-track developer with a specific, kid-focused product on a corridor where connectivity is actively improving rather than static. Southbrooke Phase 1's clubhouse and pool infrastructure, its Vaastu-led design brief, and Phase 2's expanded 115-plus amenity list sit alongside a location where the project is at the heart of South Chennai near Kelambakkam Junction, just off OMR, minutes from Navalur, the Siruseri business hub and its tech parks. That combination of Casagrand's Chennai-wide delivery record and a corridor with both IT-driven employment and an established education base is the core of the Southbrooke proposition in Kalavakkam.
