SOBHA (up 0.32 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Prestige Estates Projects (down 2.9 per cent), Brigade Enterprises (down 2.83 per cent), DLF (down 2.74 per cent), Phoenix Mills (down 1.99 per cent) and Sunteck Realty (down 1.77 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Realty index was down 1.9 per cent at 379.9 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 114.0 points at 16454.85, while the BSE Sensex was down 286.82 points at 55342.67.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 were trading in the green, while 42 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, SAIL, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy and NALCO were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Nakoda Group Of Ind, Deep Industries Ltd., Fortis Healthcare, KKV Agro Powers Ltd. and Meghmani Finechem Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while CarTrade Tech Ltd., Ujjivan SFB, Vertoz Advertising, Inventure Grwth and Windlas Biotech Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.