How can someone find housing (PG or flat to rent) in Bangalore?

If you know somebody in your company, you can just ask them or the HR department for suggestions. A lot of your future colleagues will have a good idea about it and will probably want to help you too. Otherwise, it's best to visit the areas where you want and take a stroll. As Santhosh said, talk to small shop owners. Take a look at the pamphlets on trees and electricity poles. I've seen a lot of advertisements about PGs on the  trees on the side of the road. Good luck!

If I were you, I would decide the area in which I want to live. Visit the nearby petty shop to get a copy of the classifieds and find it from there. You have sites like http://asklaila.com , http://bangalore.quikr.com/. But I'm not sure how good they are in this case.

A nice interface to find flats http://housing.co.in/bangalore/rent

My 2 cents: Trying to find a 1BHK in an apartment complex is futile. 2BHKs in complexes are all above 25k. Try Common Floor - http://commonfloor.com http://Housing.co.in (Housing . http://co.in) is good as well. But common floor seems to have more results. What I have been doing is roaming around different localities and looking for good apartment complexes, then searching for flats on CommonFloor using the name of the complex. Most times I do find something that I like. For your office location, both Koramangala (expensive) and Marathahalli (a little remote) would be convenient; there are lots of Volvo buses on the Ring road between Koramangala and Marathahalli that stop at the IT parks in between. So both places would be good travel-wise. And as others suggested, best bet is to come here, roam around, look for ads on trees/poles/roads, check with brokers...

Hi there, I had the same question as you 1 year ago but pity Quora wasn't their that time :( Well like Santhosh said, pick any good residential area their to live and start searching for rented places their on quicker, 99acres or sulekha. You can find adds their from both the owner himself and also from the brokers. The brokers would charge you one months rent as their fee, so you can choose among the adds from owners themselves and call them. On thing to be careful here is adds from the owners their are generally old, so sort them by the posted date. Or once you came to bangalore try any broker(you would lots of brokers here) and they would show you the houses. But again the one months fee comes into the picture.

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There are many online real-estate portal available in India, go through those sites likehttp://www.quikr.com/homeshttps://www.commonfloor.com/99accres, magic bricks, housing.

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