Comments on PropTiger Residential Report Q1 2026

“Bengaluru’s performance in Q1 2026 clearly reflects the strength of the city’s end-user driven housing market. The market is expanding on healthy fundamentals rather than speculative activity. The continued expansion of GCCs, startups, deep-tech companies and global innovation centres is creating a more diversified and resilient employment ecosystem, which is translating into sustained residential demand across key micro-markets.”

The city is expected to continue witnessing steady capital appreciation and healthy project absorption through the year. Bengaluru today remains one of the few large Indian housing markets where residential growth is being supported simultaneously by employment generation, infrastructure expansion and genuine end-user demand.”

 

India’s housing market is increasingly shifting towards an end-user driven growth cycle, with cities offering stronger employment opportunities, rising incomes, and robust social and physical infrastructure demonstrating greater resilience and long-term sustainability. Southern markets continue to outperform on the back of strong technology and services-led employment growth, while Ahmedabad remains well-positioned due to its affordability advantage.

A key trend emerging across the three southern cities and Ahmedabad is that housing sales continue to remain at par with or higher than new launches, indicating healthy inventory absorption and fundamentally strong demand conditions. This reflects a more balanced and stable market environment driven by genuine homebuyer demand rather than speculative activity.

At the same time, large-scale infrastructure development across Indian cities — including metro expansion, expressways, industrial corridors and transit-oriented development — is creating new micro-markets and unlocking fresh residential growth opportunities. Improved connectivity and urban expansion are expected to further support housing demand across emerging corridors in the coming years.