Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(up 5.72 per cent), Godrej Properties Ltd.(up 3.46 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(up 2.76 per cent), DLF Ltd.(up 2.09 per cent) and Phoenix Mills Ltd.(up 1.86 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Macrotech Developers Ltd.(down 1.96 per cent), Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.(down 1.14 per cent) and Sunteck Realty Ltd.(down 0.18 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Realty index was up 1.75 per cent at 1009.65 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 86.16 points at 24141.75, while the BSE Sensex was up 317.9 points at 79077.3.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 17 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Zomato, Reliance Power and Suzlon Energy were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Indraprastha Med, BSL Ltd, S P Apparels, Century Enka and Firstsource hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while SEL Manufacturing Co, Morarjee Text, Gujarat Lease, Divgi Torqtransfer and Renaissance Global hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.