Total Environment Building Systems was founded in Bengaluru in 1996 by architect Kamal Sagar, an IIT Kharagpur graduate who had earlier worked on the Poonawalla Stud Farms in Pune. After failing to persuade established developers to accept his design ideas, Sagar chose to develop and construct his own projects — and Total Environment was the result. The company's identity was set early: a focus on natural materials to create warm living spaces, and the idea of providing a garden with every home. Nearly three decades later, Total Environment has delivered more than 6 million square feet to over 1,600 customers across projects in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, and Frisco, TX. According to CRISIL, the group has been operating for around three decades, is an established brand in the premium segment of the Bengaluru residential market, has executed about 59 projects encompassing 4.54 million sq ft, and is developing another 12 million sq ft in Bengaluru.
The promoters — Kamal Sagar and Shibanee Sagar, both architects — remain directly involved in management. That sustained founder involvement is visible in the design consistency across every project in the portfolio, from early work in Indiranagar and Ulsoor to the larger communities the group now builds on South Bangalore's growth corridors.
Total Environment's residential work has always sat at the intersection of greenery, relative quiet, and functional urban access. The developer has been actively developing projects in major areas in Bangalore such as Kanakapura Road, Yelahanka, Sarjapur Road, and Devanahalli. Talaghattapura, located on the Kanakapura Road corridor in South Bangalore, satisfies the conditions the developer has consistently chosen: room for landscape-heavy master planning, enough distance from the dense urban core to preserve a lower-rise character, and direct road and metro access that keeps employment centres reachable.
Kanakapura Road passes through Konanakunte, Thalaghattapura, Vajarahalli, Kaggalipura, and Harohalli as it runs south from Banashankari. Talaghattapura sits at a node that has become particularly well served by infrastructure that has since come online. The Green Line of Namma Metro was extended from Yelachenahalli to Silk Institute on Kanakapura Road, with stations at Konanakunte Cross, Doddakallasandra, Vajarahalli, Thalaghattapura, and Silk Institute. Thalaghattapura station places the metro directly adjacent to Total Environment's site — a circumstance the developer has acknowledged in its own project materials. The NICE Peripheral Ring Road, a 65-km toll expressway connecting Tumkur Road to Hosur Road via Kanakapura Road, is fully operational, putting Electronic City 20–25 minutes from the mid-corridor without traffic.
For a buyer who values nature-facing architecture but works in Electronic City, JP Nagar, or Banashankari, the micro-location delivers a travel pattern that is rare elsewhere in Bangalore at this product price-point. Highway connections via NICE Road, the Peripheral Ring Road, and a green environment near Bannerghatta Park and Turahalli Forest define the character of the Kanakapura Road belt. Schools including DPS South and Kumarans, and hospitals such as Apollo and Fortis, are in proximity.
Total Environment The Magic Faraway Tree is located at Survey No. 33/2, Kanakapura Road, Talaghattapura, Bengaluru 560062 — physically close to the NICE Road junction that gives the project its multi-directional road access. This thoughtfully crafted community on Kanakapura Road takes its name from a beautiful, old tree at the edge of the property; built on elevated ground, the project offers a panoramic view of scenic South Bangalore, and is designed to offer privacy and peace through handcrafted finishes, natural building materials, and easy-to-customise spaces.
The Magic Faraway Tree consists of 434 units spread across 12 acres of land. The housing society has 4 towers with 30 floors and spans 3 phases. The project is multi-phase by design, a structure Total Environment has used at several of its larger Bengaluru communities to allow later buyers to enter at later construction stages while the overall landscape matures.
The project offers handcrafted 3 BHK and 3.5 BHK simplex and duplex homes, each designed with precision, warmth, and purpose. The uniqueness of the building lies in its innovative tree-like structured tower, which is adorned with private gardens on every floor. This is the signature motif Total Environment has refined since 1997 — the vision of cantilevered patio gardens for every home — expressed here at a larger urban scale than the developer's earlier boutique projects.
Total Environment has leveraged technology to deliver custom-designed homes at scale; their proprietary platform "eDesign" offers homebuyers options to customise their floor plan, furniture layouts, feature enhancements, and functional planning in an online, 3D format. At The Magic Faraway Tree, this means buyers can configure their home before construction milestones are reached rather than accepting a fixed finish.
The project carries Karnataka RERA registration numbers PRM/KA/RERA/1251/310/PR/171015/000424 (Phase 2) and PRM/KA/RERA/1251/310/PR/181204/002194 (Phase 2a).
Talaghattapura sits within a corridor whose capital values have moved materially over recent years. Property prices on Kanakapura Road have increased by 89.2 percent over the last five years and by 23.4 percent in just one year. Property prices in the Talaghattapura micro-market have appreciated by approximately 29.7 percent over the past three years. At the premium end of the corridor where Total Environment operates, Kanakapura Road is still relatively priced compared to other Bengaluru routes, with flats ranging from ₹7,000–₹14,000 per square foot, providing a compelling entry for end users and investors alike.
The infrastructure pipeline that has driven this trend is not yet fully priced in. A six-lane improvement of NH-948 (formerly NH-209) is in progress; the Namma Metro Green Line extension approaching Anjanapura increases the area's attractiveness further; and the PRR project, which will connect South and North Bengaluru, will further enhance connectivity. Every metro extension announcement along this corridor has historically driven 10–15 percent appreciation in surrounding areas.
Buying from Total Environment in this location carries a set of conditions that are distinct from the broader Kanakapura Road apartment market. The developer's fully furnished, customised delivery model means the buyer is not sourcing interiors separately; architectural design and detailing, long-term maintenance, customisation through e-Build, comprehensive home automation, and terrace gardens are integrated into the product. Construction-linked payment is offered from a 5 percent booking amount, staged against site milestones.
The developer also operates at a longer gestation cycle than volume builders. CRISIL's March 2025 analysis notes that longer gestation projects are a function of Total Environment's presence in the premium luxury segment — which is a structural feature of the model, not a delivery concern. Buyers at The Magic Faraway Tree are purchasing into a landscape that takes time to mature by design, not by accident.
Unlike the traffic jams in the IT corridors, Kanakapura Road has a peaceful, green environment near Bannerghatta Park, Turahalli Forest, and the Art of Living ashram. For a developer whose founding logic is that housing should offer direct, daily access to nature, Talaghattapura is not an opportunistic land play — it is a location that matches the product's stated purpose.