NEW DELHI: Realty shares were trading higher in Friday's morning session ahead of Budget.Shares of Phoenix Mills (up 4.03 per cent), DLF (up 2.18 per cent), Sunteck Realty (up 2.06 per cent) and Sobha (up 2.01 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Prestige Estates Projects (up 1.95 per cent), Indiabulls Real Estate (up 1.15 per cent) and Godrej Properties (up 1.00 per cent) too were trading higher.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 36.60 points at 10,867.55 while the BSE Sensex was up 133.53 points at 36390.22.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 29 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.
Shares of Vedanta, YES Bank, SBI, Axis Bank, Ashok Leyland, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, ITC and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the NSE.