The Second-Home Hour

The airport is redrawing the radius within which a weekend home actually gets used.

There is a rule in second-home ownership: beyond ninety minutes, usage falls off a cliff. Below sixty, the home becomes part of ordinary life.

The Navi Mumbai airport, the expressway missing link and the Karjat access road are together pulling the Sahyadri valley inside that sixty-minute line.

For buyers, this is the difference between an asset that is visited four times a year and one that is lived in forty.