Hubtown Sunmist: Review

Overview

Located in Mumbai’s largest and ever growing suburb Andheri Hubtown Sunmist definitely attracted a fair amount of praise for its external facade. By focusing on a severe, almost corporate, sharp-cornered design it managed to stand out from the crowd of Hiranandani and Kalpataru copies and sculpted concrete efforts.

According to an Economic times report released recently, “Home buyers in and around Chandivali, Andheri and Sakinaka are having a tough time getting the possession of their property because of multiple problems. Either the government is delaying giving permissions or the registration takes time forever or the builder is struggling to finish the project in time because of cash crunch. "The builders are facing lot of issues in sourcing funds for completing projects," said Arjun Thakkar, a real estate consultant based out of Andheri East.” It is learnt Hubtown Sunmist a victim of one of these issues had a initial possession date of December 2013.

Location

The location is perfect if you are someone who works in the suburbs of Mumbai. Connectivity wise it doesn’t get better. However the same boon happens to be a bane if you have a young family. Be ready for traffic jams and noise every morning. This is one of the most active junctions in Mumbai and is certainly one of the busiest parts of the Andheri suburb. If you can live with this fact Andheri station is close by, you are close to the Metro (all at walking distance). You will have to depend on Andheri west for your shopping needs since these residential apartments are right in the middle of Andheri Business district.

Plans

The plot shape is quite regular and with adjacent roads on three sides, its exact locality is very nice. Since, the plot area is a bit less and it’s a standalone building, the open areas will be limited. So, there is a certain give and take involved between location and layout here. 

2BHK

The 2 BHK has an entrance lobby which opens up into a spacious living area of 22*11 with a separate 100 sq ft + dining space which can easily accommodate an 8 seater dining table. The kitchen is huge again with 2 separate counter slabs. A master bedroom of size 11*18 is ‘luxury’. 2 big washrooms and huge utility space for your storage space and a 21 feet deck. Need we say more. It’s spacious!

3BHK

• Living room is spacious with balcony, puja room & dining area.
• Kitchen is big and attached with dry balcony.
• General bedroom is of ok size.
• Other bedroom is little bit big compare to general bedroom attached with toilet.
• Master bedroom is very spacious attached with balcony but layout is not that good because the passage.
• Master bedroom is also have utility area which good to keep old stuff

             

• Living room is small compare to other 3 BHK.
• General bedroom and other bedroom is of ok size.
• Utility area is very big which is very good.
• Master bedroom is very spacious along with big balcony and passage area is also nicely utilised with wardrobe.

4BHK

• Living room is small if we see as 4 BHK apartments.
• General bedroom & toilet is of ok size.
• Other bedroom and other master bedroom is spacious.
• Other master bedroom layout of window.
• Master bedroom is very spacious.
• Just 1 balcony.
• No utility space.
• Passage area which is given is good idea and can be utilised nicely.

 

• Living room is spacious compare to other 4BHK.
• All the bedrooms including master bedroom is spacious.
• This floor plan is having utility area which is very useful.
• Balcony is big but it is accessible from kitchen and general bedroom which I think is a negative aspect. 

What do we like

• We like floor plans of the project, the living room master bedroom and other bedrooms are very spacious they all are having the huge as well.
• The location is spot on as far as connectivity is concerned close to the western express especially if you work in Andheri/ Malad/ BKC
• Noise proof windows in the whole apartment.

What we dont like

• The junction it is at is most certainly the busiest part of the suburbs - I'm pretty sure there will be traffic jams (and hence the noise) up to 11pm every night.
• Per sq. ft. price for this project is much higher than compare to the average price in andheri east region.
• This project is already going 2 years delay so can’t trust the builder

Final verdict

Great planning. Large size apartments with big decks is a dream for every housewife in Mumbai, however it’s an SRA project where the developer was allegedly struggling for money and clearances. If you have an office space in BKC/ Andheri and can live with some traffic go for it after negotiations.