GMADA's Mohali Aerotropolis is a rare kind of Indian real estate asset: a planned, government-owned greenfield township the size of a small city, built around an existing international airport rather than promised to one. The first phase is laid out as four active pockets. Pocket A carries the embassy and premium clusters and the largest park footprint. Pocket B is the small-format pocket — dispute-clean and rapidly developing. Pocket C carries the central business district allotments and a group housing zone. Pocket D is the largest entry-level pocket, with the highest plot count and the broadest range of plot sizes.
The instrument that makes this market function is the LOI — a Letter of Intent issued by GMADA that confers the right to construct on a designated plot, tradeable through registered assignment without the freehold complications that typically slow Indian land markets. The LOI is what allows the corridor to function as a real estate market while the underlying township is still being built out.
Pockets E onwards are in active land acquisition — multiple villages notified under various sections, hearings ongoing. The acquisition pipeline is one of the most important medium-term signals in the corridor's trajectory, and the GMADA notices feed above carries it as it happens.
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