India, Oct. 14 -- Two reports on real estate agree, and disagree with each other. One by Knight Frank India, and the other by MagicBricks, conclude that the demand for housing units in the country is on the rise. Although they accept that the growth rate is low, though positive, their figures do not match. Knight Frank's study in top eight residential markets, which include the obvious cities such as Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and Bengaluru, concludes that demand inched by a single per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) in the July-September 2025 quarter.

During the same period, according to MagicBricks, the housing demand rose by a higher 3.1 per cent YoY year-on-year. Knight Frank finds a two per cent YoY decline in new launches, or fresh availabili...