The single number that decides whether a second home gets used every month or forgotten by the second season, and how to measure it honestly.
Every second-home buyer near Delhi NCR asks the same silent question first: how far? It sounds practical, but it is really an emotional one. Too close and the escape doesn't feel like one. Too far and the escape never happens.
The ninety-minute rule, honestly measured
The honest test is door-to-gate on a Friday evening, not a Sunday-morning best case. Naugaon, where Aranyaka's estates sit, is 90 minutes from Delhi NCR on the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway, close enough that a weekend is worth the trip, far enough that the air, the light and the pace all change. Distance here enables usage; it doesn't restrict it.
“Escape only works if it's reachable. A drive time you'll actually make every month is worth more than a beautiful one you'll make twice a year.”
What to check before you fall for the photographs
Ask for the real drive time and do it yourself at the hour you'd travel. Confirm the land is clear-title and gated. And look at the density, the space between homes is the part that stays valuable long after the brochure is forgotten.
A weekend home is only as good as the number of weekends you actually spend there. Start with the drive, and let everything else follow.
