Residential Inventory

Home sales across major cities in India declined in Q2 2025, but value rises 1% to ₹1.47 trillion amid a sharp shift toward high-end and luxury housing, says Anarock's residential market report

A recent report by real estate platform Magicbricks shows a major spike in demand for properties in popular hill stations like Nainital, Shimla, Dehradun, and Rishikesh

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Unsold housing inventories fell 7 per cent in the last three months across 9 major cities to around 4.81 lakh units on higher sales than new supply, according to PropEquity. Real estate data analytic firm PropEquity data showed that unsold housing stock has come down to 4,81,566 units at the end of March this year from 5,18,868 units at the end of December 2023 across 9 major cities. These cities are Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Delhi-NCR (Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad), Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata. PropEquity founder and Managing Director (MD) Samir Jasuja said the unsold housing stocks have declined as "sales are surpassing the new launches which is a positive indicator for the market". During January-March period of 2024, housing sales across 9 major cities stood at 1,44,656 units while the new launches were 1,05,134 units. This led to a reduction in the unsold stocks. As per the data, Pune saw the maximum 13 per cent fall in

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New-home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidized housing, declined 0.3% last month from August, when they slipped 0.29%, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed Thursday

It is the steepest drop of available stock among the top seven cities in India

At the same time, since the first half of 2018, the sale of premium homes in India has gone up over 143%

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According to an Anarock report, NCR achieved a reduction of 43 months in its 5-year stock of homes, from 66 months by the first quarter of calendar year 2018 to 23 months by Q1 of 2023

On the commercial real estate front, after a healthy performance in the first half of this financial year, net leasing will slow down in the second half owing to fears of an impending global recession

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Fresh supply of residential properties is expected to rise 44 per cent this year across seven cities to 3.4 lakh units as developers look to tap increase in demand, according to Anarock. Property consultant Anarock data showed that new launches stood at 2.65 lakh units during January-September this year across primary markets of seven cities -- Delhi-NCR, Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The current trends indicate that launches in these cities will exceed 3.4 lakh units in the entire 2022 calendar year, the consultant added. "Total new launches in 2022 will remain lower than the previous peak of 2014, which saw approximately 5.45 lakh homes launched across the top 7 cities," Anarock said. As per the data, new home launches stood at 4,64,060 units in 2013, 5,45,230 units in 2014, 3,89,970 units in 2015, 2,49,840 units in 2016, 1,46,860 units in 2017, 1,95,300 units in 2018, 2,36,560 units in 2019, 1,27,960 units in 2020 and 2,36,690

MMR and Hyderabad witnessed the highest new launches in Q3 2022, with approx. 36,000 units and 15,530 units, respectively

Last week, two other consultants Anarock and PropTiger released their data for residential markets

The Q4 of FY19 sales numbers excluded those of property developer Macrotech promoted by the Lodha group

While residential portfolio is strong, commercial assets may take time to recover

Leading realtors say it's difficult to judge the trend

Sales momentum should help the company double its quarterly cash flows from the residential business over the next two quarters, as compared to the run rate it was achieving in the past

The top three cities are Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), National Capital Region and Bengaluru