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About Yashika Ekantam Sector 78 Gurgaon Yashika Ekantam is a single-tower, low-density project by Yashika Group on about 1.25 acres in Sector 78, New Gurugram — one G+25 tower, fewer than ninety homes, four to a floor, all of them 3 BHK of about 1,589 sq ft. It is being sold as Gurugram's first wellness-led boutique address, and the number doing the selling is the pre-launch rate: Rs 9,999 per sq ft, against an expected launch rate of Rs 12,499. This page does the arithmetic behind those two figures, because on a project this small the arithmetic is the whole decision. The project in numbers ItemDetail Project Yashika Ekantam Developer Yashika Group Location Sector 78, New Gurugram, at the Aravalli end of the sector Site About 1.25 acres Built form One tower, ground plus 25 floors Homes Fewer than 90 Homes per floor Four Configuration 3 BHK only Size quoted About 1,589 sq ft Pre-launch rate Rs 9,999 per sq ft Expected launch rate Rs 12,499 per sq ft Open and green area Described as about 40 per cent of the site Status Pre-launch. No HRERA registration number is on the public record we could reach What Rs 9,999 and Rs 12,499 actually cost Neither rate is ever quoted as a total, so here are both, against the only size the project sells: RateOn 1,589 sq ftAgainst the sector Rs 9,999 per sq ft (pre-launch) About Rs 1.59 crore A shade under the Sector 78 average of about Rs 10,200 per sq ft Rs 12,499 per sq ft (expected launch) About Rs 1.99 crore A shade over the Rs 12,400 per sq ft that apartments in the sector are quoted at The gap between the two is Rs 39.7 lakh, or exactly 25 per cent. That is the number the pre-launch pitch is built on, and it is worth being precise about what it is and what it is not. It is not a discount off a market price. It is the difference between paying the Sector 78 average and paying the top of the Sector 78 range. A buyer at Rs 9,999 is buying at the sector's ordinary rate; a buyer at Rs 12,499 is paying a premium for a small tower with a wellness brief. Both can be reasonable. Only one of them is a bargain, and it is the one that is only available before the project is registered. 1.25 acres is a small site. Here is what that means for the brochure A tower and a garden compete for the same ground, and on 1.25 acres there is not much ground. The figures close like this: 1.25 acres is 6,050 sq yd, or about 54,450 sq ft. Split across ninety homes, that is roughly 605 sq ft of land behind each home. Ninety homes of 1,589 sq ft is about 143,000 sq ft of sold area — roughly 2.6 times the area of the site it stands on. That is a normal figure for a high-rise, and it is the reason the tower is 25 floors tall on a plot this size. Forty per cent open and green is about half an acre, or 2,420 sq yd, shared by ninety families. Per home that is roughly 27 sq yd — about 240 sq ft of open ground. None of that makes the project a bad one. A quiet tower with four homes to a floor, wrap-around balconies and no through traffic is a real product, and plenty of buyers prefer it to a 2,000-home township. But "40 per cent green" on 1.25 acres buys a well-planted courtyard, a walking loop and some sit-outs. It does not buy the central park a buyer pictures when the same phrase appears in a brochure for a 20-acre scheme. Look at the planting and paving drawing, not the render, and ask what sits under that green: podium slab over parking, or soil. The question to settle before any money moves: under what approval? We could not find an HRERA registration number for this project on any source we could reach. That is the single most important line on this page, and the reason is Section 3 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act: a promoter may not advertise, market, book, sell or offer for sale any unit in a project until it is registered with the authority. A rate described as a pre-launch price is a description of exactly that activity. So before anything is paid, ask for three documents and read them yourself: The HRERA registration certificate for this project, with its number, its sanctioned unit count and the completion date printed on it. Verify the number on the Haryana authority's own site, not on a portal, and check that the project name and khasra numbers on the certificate match the site being shown. 

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