NOW LIVE IN PUNE
MakanMate helps students, job seekers, and anyone new to Pune find a verified PG or flat — and a few familiar faces before you've even moved in. No brokerage. No fake listings.
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"I landed in Pune with two bags, a job start date, and absolutely no idea where I'd sleep that week."
Brokers eat a month's rent before you've even seen the place properly.
Listings lie. The photos are old, the "5 min from station" is a 25-minute auto ride.
You move in alone. No one to ask where the good chai stall is, or who to call when the geyser breaks.
MakanMate is built to compress the hardest part of moving cities into a few days, not a few stressful weeks.
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Your city, your budget, your dates, and whether you'd rather live solo or share. Takes under two minutes.
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Every listing is visited and checked by our Pune team before it goes live — real photos, real rent, real distances.
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We introduce you to others who just moved to the same area — so week one doesn't feel like week one.
Whoever you are when you land, there's a version of MakanMate for you.
We're onboarding a limited number of verified owners per neighbourhood first — so every listing a seeker sees is one we've actually checked ourselves.
No listing fee during the Pune pilot.
We handle verification visits — one visit, done, no repeat paperwork.
Direct contact with tenants — no broker sitting between you and your rent.
Pune pulls in more students and first-job movers every year than almost any other Indian city — and has some of the messiest, most broker-heavy rental hunting to go with it. We're building MakanMate here first, getting every detail right neighbourhood by neighbourhood, before taking it national.
Next stops: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and beyond — wherever people are landing somewhere new.
Moving cities already asks a lot of trust from you. We don't add to that.
Every listing is physically checked by someone on our Pune team before it's published. What you see is what you'll get.
You deal with the owner or us directly. No middleman fee eating into your first month's budget.
Rent, deposit, and every recurring charge shown upfront — nothing revealed only after you've paid a token amount.
We connect new arrivals in the same area so your first week has a few familiar faces in it.
We're not trying to do everything on day one. Here's the order we're building in.
Phase 1
HAPPENING NOWBrokerage-free, physically-checked listings across Kothrud, Hinjewadi, Viman Nagar, and Baner — with a community layer so new arrivals aren't landing alone.
Phase 2
NEXTBengaluru and Hyderabad first, then other cities that pull in large numbers of students and first-job movers every year.
Phase 3
LATEROnce the rental side earns trust at scale, extending into real estate transactions and hotel-style short stays under the same verified, brokerage-light model.
"We built MakanMate because we've both been the person standing outside a PG with two bags, a landlord who wouldn't answer calls, and a broker who'd already been paid. Pune is where we're fixing that first — properly, before we go anywhere else."
— The MakanMate founding team
If yours isn't here, email contact@makanmate.in — we read every message during the pilot.
Yes, for seekers it's free during the Pune pilot. There's no brokerage fee, and no charge to browse or join the waitlist.
Someone from our Pune team visits the property in person before it's published — checking the photos, the rent, and the distance claims match reality.
We're onboarding Pune neighbourhood by neighbourhood to keep verification tight, then expanding to other cities. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment your area's live.
Use the "List your property" option in the waitlist form below. We're onboarding a limited number of verified owners per neighbourhood first.
Both — PGs, shared flats, and independent 1BHK/2BHK rentals, depending on what's available and verified in your chosen area.
We're onboarding Pune neighbourhoods gradually to keep every listing verified. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know the moment your area's live.