Real Insight Residential Report

Real Insight: Residential

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Real Insight: Residential – India Housing Market | Jan–Dec 2025

Real Insight: Residential – Jan–Dec 2025 is a comprehensive, data-led analysis of India’s residential real estate market across eight major cities. The report captures how the sector transitioned from post-pandemic momentum into a phase of measured normalisation, defined by calibrated supply, timing-sensitive demand, and growing regional divergence.

Backed by city-level sales, supply, pricing, and inventory data, the report offers actionable intelligence for homebuyers, developers, investors, and policymakers navigating a stabilising housing cycle.

Key Market Highlights

All-India residential sales moderated gradually in 2025, declining from 98,095 units in Q1 to 95,049 units in Q4, signalling demand re-timing rather than disruption.

Developers displayed strong supply discipline, with quarterly launches consistently aligned below or near absorption levels.

Southern markets emerged as relative outperformers, while western markets saw broad-based year-on-year corrections.

Prices remained firm but stable, reflecting normalisation rather than acceleration.

Inventory levels stayed within comfortable limits, supported by calibrated launches and steady absorption.

What will you find inside?

All-India Residential Sales Performance

An overview of national housing trends, highlighting quarterly demand moderation, supply discipline, and market balance through CY 2025. Q1: Early consolidation after a strong 2024 Q2: Broad-based slowdown and peak buyer caution Q3: Partial recovery with uneven city-level momentum Q4: Year-end stabilisation, not a surge

City-wise Residential Sales & Supply Summary

Detailed analysis across Mumbai MMR, NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata, highlighting how regional fundamentals increasingly drove performance outcomes in 2025.

Prices & Inventory

An evaluation of pricing trends and inventory health across India’s top residential markets, reflecting a shift toward price stability and disciplined inventory management. Includes inventory health and segment-level insights and premiumization trends and absorption dynamics.

Outlook: Residential Market 2026

A forward-looking assessment of India’s residential market as it enters 2026 on a foundation of stability rather than exuberance. Residential demand is expected to remain steady, selective, and predominantly end-user driven. Developers are likely to maintain a disciplined, absorption-led supply strategy.

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India's residential market in 2025 reflected a phase of measured normalisation following the elevated post-pandemic momentum of 2024. Across the eight tracked cities, unit sales moderated gradually through the year, declining by 11.6% YoY. Sales decreased from 98,095 units in Q1 2025 to 95,049 units in Q4 2025.

Q2 2025 marked the weakest quarter of the year; however, this reflected seasonal softness and heightened buyer caution rather than structural weakness.

New residential supply showed disciplined calibration throughout 2025:

Q1 2025: 93,144 units (front-loaded supply reflecting early-year confidence)
Q2 2025: 84,138 units (clear pullback amid seasonal softness)
Q3 2025: 91,807 units (9.1% QoQ recovery)
Q4 2025: 92,007 units (stabilisation rather than expansion)

Southern markets demonstrated superior resilience:

Chennai: 55% YoY growth (from 16,044 to 24,892 units), marking the strongest annual performance
Bengaluru: 12.7% YoY growth with 54,414 units sold
Kolkata: 11.5% YoY growth (from 13,605 to 15,172 units)
Hyderabad: 5.7% YoY growth with sustained end-user demand