Indian Real Estate & Farmland Reports — What Each One Actually Coversभारतीय रियल एस्टेट रिपोर्ट — कौन सी रिपोर्ट क्या मापती है

Why this page exists

Search for a property market report and the first results are usually written by firms selling property. That is not research, and a figure with no stated method behind it should not move your money. The reports below are published by central banks, statistical agencies, universities and global consultancies, and every one of them states its own method and coverage.

The reports, and what they cover

Coverage and methodology as stated by each publisher, reviewed July 2026. ✅ covered · ⚠️ partially or thinly covered · ❌ not covered. Publishers revise coverage and methodology between editions — check the current edition before citing any of these.

What the latest editions reported

India's market transparency

JLL's Global Real Estate Transparency Index 2024 placed India 31st of 89 countries with a composite score of 2.44, the first time its tier-1 markets reached the index's "transparent" tier, and named India the biggest global improver in that edition. The sub-scores are the interesting part for a land buyer: performance measurement 40th, regulatory and legal 43rd, sustainability 29th. The weakest areas are measurement and legal process — which is precisely where a land transaction lives.

And the caveat that matters here: JLL states plainly that the research does not cover India's tier-2 and tier-3 markets. Jaipur is outside it.

Global farmland values

Read this figure with care. The Savills index tracks prime farmland in 15 key markets and India is not among those 15 markets; Savills itself notes that robust farmland value data in emerging markets is difficult to obtain and lags publication. Global farmland growth is context for the asset class — it is not a rate of return for agricultural land in Rajasthan, and must not be read as one.

Agricultural land in India

The IIM Ahmedabad–SFarmsIndia agricultural land price index is the only academic index we found that tracks Indian farmland specifically. Its own published limitations are important: it is built on listing data rather than transaction data, its hedonic model reports a fit in the mid-sixties percent, and Rajasthan falls within a group of six states contributing only a small share of the underlying data. It is a genuine and useful reference. It is not a valuation for your khasra.

Pan-India official statistics

These are the sources that actually cover the whole country rather than a handful of metros — and, unlike every housing index, several of them are about agricultural land. They are slower and less glossy than consultancy research. They are also the only things here compiled by statutory bodies with a published method.

Pan-India headline figures — and how to read them

The most-quoted numbers about "the Indian real estate market" come from this layer. They are worth knowing, and they are worth putting in the right box.

Per India Brand Equity Foundation (a trust established by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry), the sector is described as India's second-largest employment generator after agriculture, projected to reach roughly US$1 trillion by 2030 from about US$200 billion in 2021. Gross office leasing across the top eight cities reached about 83.30 million sq ft in 2025, and housing demand is reported to have risen 77% between FY19 and FY25. Figures as published by IBEF; verify the current edition before quoting.

Industry and consultancy research

These firms publish the numbers most often quoted as "the Indian real estate market". They are genuine research teams with real transaction visibility — in built property, in large cities. None of them tracks agricultural land, and none covers Jaipur in its standard city set.

Property portals and listing analytics

These publish the most frequently cited price movements in Indian property, because portals sit on enormous volumes of live listings. That is also their limitation.

† These links point to the publisher's research area but have not been independently verified by us, unlike every other link on this page. If one does not resolve, go to the publisher's home page and find the research section — the reports are real, the address may have moved. We flag this rather than let you assume every link here carries the same confidence.

The gap, stated plainly

Put every source together and one conclusion is unavoidable: no published index covers agricultural land in a tier-2 district corridor. The global farmland index omits India for want of reliable data. The Indian housing indices cover Jaipur but measure built housing, not farmland. The consultancy reports cover eight metros. The one Indian farmland index is listings-based and thin in Rajasthan.

This is why we do not publish per-district land values anywhere on this site, and why you should be sceptical of anyone who does. A price quoted to acre-level precision for a whole district, sourced to "broker surveys", is an estimate wearing the costume of data. The honest instruments available to you are the official guideline rate for the specific area, the registered sale deeds for comparable parcels, and your own inspection.

How to judge any property report in sixty seconds

• What is it built on? Registry transaction data is strongest. Registered values are next. Listing prices are asking prices, not achieved prices. Broker surveys are opinion.
• What does it cover? Eight cities is not India. Residential is not farmland. Tier-1 is not Jaipur.
• Who paid for it? A report published by a firm selling the asset it is reporting on is marketing until proven otherwise.
• Is the method published? Every source on this page states its base year, its data source and its limitations. If a report does not, that absence is the finding.
• How old is it? Check the edition, not the page you read it on. Figures get recycled across blogs for years after the report is superseded.

Sources reviewed July 2026. Figures are stated as reported by their publishers in the editions named, and are summarised rather than reproduced. Report editions supersede one another — where this page and a publisher's current edition disagree, the publisher is right. Nothing here is legal, tax, financial or valuation advice.