Indian Real Estate Statistics You Need to Know in 2026

A working reference of the numbers that describe India's housing and property market in 2026 — prices, sales, home loans, affordable housing and the office market. Every figure is quoted as published by the Reserve Bank of India, Knight Frank India and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

House prices

• India's All-India House Price Index (HPI) grew 3.6% year-on-year in Q1 2026-27 — the same rate as the first quarter of the previous year.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, House Price Index, Q1 2026-27, released August 2026)
• House prices rose 1.1% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2026-27, led by Chandigarh, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, House Price Index, Q1 2026-27)
• The All-India HPI stood at 117.5 in Q1 2026-27 (base year 2022-23 = 100), up from 113.4 in Q1 2025-26 and 116.2 in Q4 2025-26.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, House Price Index, Q1 2026-27)
• Price growth has cooled sharply from a year earlier — the HPI rose just 2.2% year-on-year in Q2 2025-26, against 7% in the same quarter a year before.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, House Price Index, Q2 2025-26, released November 2025)
• The RBI index tracks 18 major cities using actual transaction-level data from property registration authorities.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, House Price Index, Q1 2026-27)

Home sales and new launches

• 171,471 homes were sold across India's eight major residential markets in H1 2026 — a 1% year-on-year increase over the 170,201 units sold in H1 2025.(Source: Knight Frank India, India Real Estate: Office and Residential Market, H1 2026)
• New launches rose 4% year-on-year to 187,350 units in H1 2026.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Bengaluru recorded 27,968 residential sales in H1 2026, up 5% year-on-year.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Mumbai led sales among the eight cities, while NCR sales fell 7%.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Demand continued shifting to premium homes, with the ₹1 crore-and-above segment taking a growing share of sales.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)

Home loans and affordability

• The RBI repo rate is 5.25%, held unchanged at the August 2026 Monetary Policy Committee meeting.(Source: Reserve Bank of India, August 2026)
• The repo rate fell by 125 basis points during 2025, from 6.50% to 5.25%, easing borrowing costs for home buyers.(Source: Reserve Bank of India policy decisions, 2025)
• Home-loan interest rates start at roughly 8.00–8.20% per annum for the strongest credit profiles as of September 2026.(Source: Axis Bank published home-loan rates, September 2026)

Affordable housing (PMAY-Urban)

• More than 1.22 crore houses have been sanctioned under the original Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban mission.(Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, PMAY-Urban, 2026)
• Total sanctions under PMAY-Urban 2.0 have crossed 16 lakh houses, with a further 2.13 lakh additional houses approved.(Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, PMAY-Urban 2.0)
• PMAY-Urban 2.0 defines an affordable house as up to 60 sq m carpet area in metros (90 sq m in non-metros) valued up to ₹45 lakh.(Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, PMAY-Urban 2.0 guidelines)

Office and commercial market

• Office leasing across the top eight cities reached 48 million sq ft in H1 2026, about 2% below the record set a year earlier.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Global Capability Centres accounted for 43% of H1 2026 office leasing at 20.6 million sq ft — the highest half-year share on record for the segment.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Flexible-office space made up 24% of office absorption in H1 2026, up sharply from 4% in H1 2017.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Large deals of 100,000 sq ft and above represented 59% of office leasing in H1 2026.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Warehousing leasing reached 36.8 million sq ft, up 15% year-on-year in H1 2026.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)
• Hyderabad office leasing rose 29% to 7.5 million sq ft in H1 2026.(Source: Knight Frank India, H1 2026)

All figures are quoted as published by the named source on the date shown and are provided for reference, not as investment advice. Recent-quarter RBI figures are provisional. Compiled and maintained by Gurjeet Singh, My Property Pages; last updated September 2026.