Medavakkam

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| name = Medavakkam

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| settlement_type = neighbourhood

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = India

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Tamil Nadu

| subdivision_type2 = City

| subdivision_name2 = Tambaram

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| population_total = Approximately 22,000

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| timezone1 = IST

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| postal_code_type = PIN

| postal_code = 600100

| area_code_type = Telephone code

| area_code = 044-22770733

| registration_plate = TN-14

| blank2_name_sec1 = Lok Sabha constituency

| blank2_info_sec1 = South Chennai

| blank3_name_sec1 = Vidhan Sabha constituency

| blank3_info_sec1 = Sholinganallur

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Medavakkam is a southern suburb of Chennai in Tambaram taluk of Chengalpattu district, which is adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Sholinganallur, Madipakkam, Selaiyur, Keelkattalai, Velachery and Tambaram and it is center place to the developing suburbs like Ponmar, Ottiyambakkam and Sithalapakkam. Medavakkam is administered by Village Panchayat, which comes under the Shollinganallur MLA Constituency and South Chennai MP Constituency. Medavakkam will be part of Tambaram City Municipal Corporation. This location is a fast developing residential locality due to its close proximity to the IT corridor OMR (approx 4 km from Sholinganallur) and SEZ in Medavakkam Sholinganallur Road.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

According to a 2012 report by global property consultant Knight Frank, the neighbourhood has emerged as India's 6th largest destination for investment in the residential real estate, in the list of 13-top residential destinations in the country from an investment point of view, where housing prices are expected to increase by 103 percent over the period 2012–2017.{{cite news

| author = PTI

| title = Ulwe in Mumbai emerges as top destination for realty investment

| newspaper = The Economic Times

| location = New Delhi

| publisher = The Times Group

| date = 20 November 2012

| url = http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-11-20/news/35226359_1_cent-knight-frank-top-destination

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130929003756/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-11-20/news/35226359_1_cent-knight-frank-top-destination

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| archive-date = 29 September 2013

| access-date = 21 Nov 2012}}