Nine realty stocks rose 0.67% to 4.28% at 14:59 IST on BSE after the Reserve Bank of India decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility unchanged at 6.25%.
DLF (up 4.28%), Prestige Estates Projects (up 2.71%), Oberoi Realty (up 1.95%), Indiabulls Real Estate (up 0.72%), Housing Development and Infrastructure (up 1.14%), Omaxe (up 0.67%), Unitech (up 3.59%), D B Realty (up 1.67%) and Godrej Properties (up 1.77%) edged higher. Sunteck Realty (down 2.54%) fell.
The S&P BSE Realty index was up 2.1% at 1,706.72 and was the top gainer among the sectoral indices on BSE. It outperformed the Sensex, which was down 72.12 points or 0.24% at 29,902.12
Purchases of both residential and commercial property are largely driven by finance.
The First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2017-18 was announced today, 6 April 2017. On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation at its meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.25%. Consequent upon the narrowing of the LAF corridor, the reverse repo rate under the LAF is at 6% , and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate are at 6.5%.
The RBI said that the decision of the MPC is consistent with a neutral stance of monetary policy in consonance with the objective of achieving the medium-term target for consumer price index (CPI) inflation of 4% within a band of +/- 2%, while supporting growth.
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