Shalin Raina, MD-Residential, Cushman & Wakefield

The freeze on circle rates will help stabilise buyer sentiment especially in the mid and premium segments where affordability has become a growing concern. Especially as a 10-30% hike in circle rates carried out in December 2024, coupled with broader price pressures, contributed to slowdown in residential sales.

However, Gurgaon remains a key real estate market with strong fundamentals of commercial growth, infra pipeline and evolving urban ecosystem continues to attract both end-users. Further, rate cuts amidst declining inflation and more targeted offerings from developers will have a positive impact on the growth of the residential market in Gurgaon.

Ashwinder  R Singh, Chairman, CII Real Estate Committee & Vice Chairman BCD Group

Gurgaon administration has frozen the circle rates as it sensed that the recent surge in prices was abnormal. It is a practical decision to prevent the market from overheating after the earlier sharp hike in circle rates.This will help ease buying sentiment towards a steady growth.

While New Gurgaon and other emerging sectors will continue to draw genuine buyers and investors ,Gurgaon real estate should now move towards more  sustainable  single-digit  appreciation .

Samir Jasuja, Founder & CEO, PropEquity

The decision against any further hike in circle rates in Gurgaon is a sensible decision as property prices in the city had seen a hike of 200 percent in the last five years though circle rates are still 30 percent lower than the market rates. Together with this, home launches in Gurgaon have been of abnormally big sizes of average 2600 sq ft, compared to other cities.

Going forward property prices are set to stabilize  as we will see developers coming up with reduced sizes of homes that will bring down the ticket price. This price stabilisation together with increase in supply should see demand in residential real estate in Gurgaon.