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Chart of the week
Fewer homes, bigger cheques
- Homes sold
- −14%
- Sales value
- +6%
Top 7 cities, 2025 vs 2024 · Source: ANAROCK
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Ten minutes. Everything that moved.
Each edition follows the money through India’s prime property markets, from national policy down to the street, and tells you what it means for what you own or plan to buy.
Get the next edition- 01
Prime market signals
Price, absorption and inventory moves in the micro-markets where high-value homes actually trade.
- 02
Deals and land
The week’s notable transactions, land parcels and launches, and what they were priced at.
- 03
Policy and tax
RBI, RERA, stamp duty and tax changes, explained for owners, buyers and NRIs.
- 04
The chart that matters
One chart every week, cited to its source, that changes how you read a market.
- 05
The capital view
How property compares with the rest of a portfolio: rental yields, leverage and liquidity, read properly.
The market in numbers
Fewer homes. Bigger cheques.
India’s biggest cities sold fewer homes in 2025, yet buyers spent more on them than ever. That shift of money towards the top of the market is what the Brief tracks every week. Every figure here is cited to its source.
Housing sales value, top 7 cities, 2025
₹6lakh crore
+6% on 2024, while units sold fell 14%
Source 1
Average price, top 7 cities, end of 2025
₹9,260per sq ft
+8% from ₹8,590 a year earlier
Source 1
New supply priced above ₹2.5 crore, 2025
21%
Up from 18% in 2024
Source 2
Individuals in India worth US$30m or more, 2026
~20,000
+63% since 2021
Source 5
Homes sold in India’s top 7 cities
Units sold per year. Volumes peaked in 2023 and fell 14% in 2025.
| Year | Homes sold |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2,36,500 |
| 2022 | 3,64,900 |
| 2023 | 4,76,530 |
| 2024 | 4,59,645 |
| 2025 | 3,95,625 |
Sources 4, 3, 1. Top 7 cities: MMR, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata.
Units down, value up
Homes sold and sales value, top 7 cities, indexed to 2023 = 100.
| Year | Sales value index | Homes sold index |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 100 | 100 |
| 2024 | 116.4 | 96.5 |
| 2025 | 123 | 83 |
Sources 3, 1. Index calculated by Bricks & Inches; 2025 value taken at ₹6 lakh crore.
Sources
- 1.ANAROCK Research, 2025 annual housing data (Outlook Business, Dec 2025)
- 2.ANAROCK Research, 2025 new supply by price band (MediaBrief, Dec 2025)
- 3.ANAROCK Research, 2024 annual housing data (Business Standard, Dec 2024)
- 4.ANAROCK Research, 2022 annual housing data (Business Standard, Dec 2022)
- 5.Knight Frank, The Wealth Report 2026: wealth sizing model
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