By Priyanka Deshpande
CNBC-TV18.com
Published May 23, 2024
Real estate consultancy firm Anarock, on Thursday May 23, released data on unsold housing inventory across regions.
The data reveals that unsold inventory in Delhi-NCR has significantly decreased by 57% over the past five years.
The unsold stock in NCR decreased from approximately 2,00,000 units at the end of Q1 2018 to around 86,420 units by the end of Q1 2024.
Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai saw their collective unsold stock shrink by 11%, from approximately 196,000 units in Q1 2018 to around 176,000 units in Q1 2024.
South India's relatively low decline in unsold inventory is due to a surge in new launches in Hyderabad, where housing stock nearly quadrupled in the last five years.
Bengaluru saw unsold inventory decline by 50% in this period.
MMR and Pune experienced an 8% decline in unsold stock over the past five years, decreasing from approximately 313,000 units in Q1 2018 to about 290,000 units in Q1 2024.
In the East, Kolkata saw its unsold inventory decline by an impressive 41% in the period.