Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(up 3.33 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Macrotech Developers Ltd.(down 3.3 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(down 2.61 per cent), Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.(down 1.75 per cent), Phoenix Mills Ltd.(down 1.74 per cent) and DLF Ltd.(down 1.38 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Realty index was down 1.18 per cent at 898.8 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 72.41 points at 21878.75, while the BSE Sensex was down 162.84 points at 72142.04.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 13 were trading in the green, while 36 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, NHPC, Jio Financial Servic and JP Power were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Venus Pipes & Tubes, Juniper Hotels, Sona BLW Precision, Hind Rectifiers and Paras Petrofils hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Excel Realty N Infr, MPS Infotecnics, Future Consumer, IL&FS Trans and Vibhor Steel Tubes hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.