NEW DELHI: Strong losses in DLF (down 3.71 per cent), Indiabulls Real Estate (down 3.19 per cent), Housing Development Infrastructure (HDIL) (down 2.97 per cent) and Prestige Estates Projects (down 2.80 per cent) dragged realty index down in Tuesday's session.The Nifty Realty index was trading 2.34 per cent down at 263 around 02:30 pm.
Shares of Oberoi Realty (down 1.81 per cent), Phoenix Mills (down 1.43 per cent), Sobha (down 1.11 per cent) and Godrej Properties (down 0.72 per cent) also suffered losses.
Brigade Enterprises (up 0.15 per cent) was the only component in the Nifty Realty index that was slightly up around that time.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 16 points at 11,362, while the BSE Sensex was 37 points down at 37,549.Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 20 were trading in the green, while 30 were in the red.
Hindustan Unilever, YES Bank, ONGC, Titan Company and GAIL (India) were among the top Nifty gainers.State Bank of India, Hindalco Industries, Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto and HPCL were among the top losers in the Nifty index.