Share market update: Realty shares up; Indiabulls Real Estate jumps 4%

NEW DELHI: Most realty shares were trading in the positive zone in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Indiabulls Real Estate (up 4.14 per cent), Sobha (up 1.48 per cent) and Oberoi Realty (up 0.96 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.

Prestige Estates Projects (up 0.78 per cent), Sunteck Realty (up 0.65 per cent) and Phoenix Mills (up 0.35 per cent) too were trading with gains.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 25.40 points at 11,751.55 while the BSE Sensex was up 51.46 points at 39,106.14.

The Nifty Realty index was trading 0.68 per cent up at 266.65 around 10:27 am.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, DLF, Ashok Leyland, Indiabulls Housing Finance, ONGC, BHEL, L&T Fin Holding and RIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.