Kenjar is not a locality that grew around a market or a temple town; it grew around an airport. The airport is near Bajpe, around 13 km northeast of Mangaluru city centre, and its official location is registered as Kenjar HC, Bajpe. This is the ground on which Prestige Group, the Bangalore-headquartered developer listed as Prestige Estates Projects Limited, chose to place one of its Mangalore addresses.
Prestige Westholme is an ultra-luxury apartment project located in Kenjar, Mangalore, spanning over 0.50 acres, with 75% open space on a compact footprint. The project is spread across 0.5 acres and offers 20 units of apartments, positioning it as a boutique, low-density address rather than a high-rise volume play. It features 3 BHK apartments from 2,446 to 2,515 sq. ft., with prices beginning at Rs. 1.43 crore. The project, ready in 2015, is reviewed as the best for its quality construction and serene surroundings, and flats are ready for immediate occupancy with OC and CC approvals. On-ground amenities include a swimming pool, clubhouse, party halls and spa, and the project is described as in troupe with many famous schools, hospitals, shopping destinations, tech parks and every civic amenity required in the surrounding stretch of Kenjar and Bajpe.
Westholme is not an isolated experiment for Prestige in this city. The developer's Mangalore book also includes Prestige Palm Residences, a luxury villa project in Deralakatte, located near the Mangalore–Kochi National Highway, and Prestige Valley Crest, a Prestige apartment development in the heart of Bejai spread over 4.75 acres with flats across two high-rise towers totalling 510 units. Seen together, the three projects show a deliberate spread across Mangalore's growth corridors: Bejai for the established city core, Deralakatte for the southern highway belt, and Kenjar for the airport-facing north-east. A buyer evaluating Prestige in Mangalore is therefore not looking at a single test project but at a developer that has already built and delivered across three distinct micro-markets of the city.
Kenjar's value to a homebuyer is inseparable from the airport it hosts. IndiGo operates more than 50 weekly non-stop flights between Mangaluru and Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, which keeps the neighbourhood in constant service traffic from flight crew, airline and airport staff, corporate travellers and NRI families flying in from the Gulf. The terminal itself is substantial: a single integrated domestic and international terminal spread over 2,362,433 sq. meters, with 21 check-in counters, 24 immigration counters, 8 customs check and 3 security kiosks. Locally, Kenjar sits along the Karkala to Mangalore highway, giving it a direct road link both into the city and north toward the Udupi–Karkala belt, in addition to the airport itself acting as a transport node. This combination of an international gateway and a highway frontage is precisely the kind of location where a branded developer's delivered, OC-approved stock carries weight, since buyers here are as often relocating professionals and NRIs as they are long-term Mangalore residents.
Prestige Group is an Indian real estate development company headquartered in Bangalore, founded by Razack Sattar in 1986, and today has developments in Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Calicut, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Mangalore, Goa and Delhi-NCR. The company is listed on the BSE and NSE as Prestige Estates Projects Limited and operates from Prestige Falcon Tower on Brunton Road, Bengaluru. Its scale by March 2025 stood at 302 delivered projects spanning 193 million square feet, with 63 ongoing projects covering 115 million square feet and a 689 acre land bank. On the ratings side, it is the only real estate firm in India with CRISIL DA1+ grading, a distinction that matters to buyers assessing construction and delivery capability rather than brand messaging alone. The residential arm specifically, which is what a Kenjar buyer engages with directly, spans premium apartments, luxury villas, plotted layouts and affordable housing across thirteen cities, with 150 completed residential projects comprising 127 million square feet.
Mangalore's own economic base gives Kenjar a demand story beyond the airport alone. With Mangalore's booming IT and startup ecosystems, the Karnataka government has designated it as the Silicon Beach of India, a tag that has drawn technology and services employment into the city's northern and eastern belts, feeding rental and resale demand in airport-adjacent localities like Kenjar. For a developer with Prestige's balance sheet and delivery record, a small, low-density, high-specification project such as Westholme fits a locality where land parcels near the airport are limited and buyers are willing to pay a premium for a finished, RERA-compliant, ready-to-move address rather than wait out a long construction cycle.