Indiabulls Real Estate(up 3.48 per cent), Godrej Properties(up 3.11 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects(up 2.28 per cent), DLF(up 2.08 per cent) and Oberoi Realty(up 1.85 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Phoenix Mills(down 0.47 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Realty index was up 2.0 per cent at 543.1 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 115.4 points at 18277.15, while the BSE Sensex was up 339.96 points at 61077.01.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of Tata Power, Tata Motors, PNB, Trident Ltd and Vodafone Idea were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Borosil L, Consol Const., NRB Industrial, Hindprakash Industri and Hindustan Motor hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Destiny Logistics & Infra Ltd., Pasupati Acrylon, Euro India Fresh and Airo Lam hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.