The All India HPI increased by 1.1 per cent and stood at 117.5 in Q1:2026-27 compared to previous quarter, primarily driven by an increase in the index for cities such as Chandigarh, Lucknow, and Thiruvananthapuram (Chart 1).
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All-India House Price Index for Q1:2026-27
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) compiles the House Price Index (HPI) on a quarterly basis using transaction-level data received from the registration authorities. Today, the RBI released Real Sector > Prices & Wages.">1 the HPI for Q1:2026-27 with base year as 2022-23, covering eighteen major cities2.
Source: Reserve Bank of India (official). The summary and key points are quoted from that release; no AI is used. Check the source for the full text.
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The HPI registered an annual growth of 3.6 per cent in Q1:2026-27, same as in Q1 of previous year, mainly contributed by the cities such as Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram (Chart 1).
2 The eighteen cities are Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Pune, Ghaziabad, Thane, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Chandigarh and Nagpur.
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