** India's Nifty Realty index .NIFTYREAL hits record high
** Including the day's gain, realty index has logged gains
in 10 sessions out of 12
** Housing sales grew y/y in Jan-March across all markets
except Bengaluru, Mumbai clocked highest sales volumes - Knight
Frank
** Godrej Properties GODR.NS and Macrotech Developers
MACE.NS top gainers in index, adding 3.5% and 2.5%,
respectively
** Godrej posts strong sales at its biggest project in
Gurugram, stock hits record high
** Macrotech, which is up 2.5%, posted Q4 pre-sales at 42.3
billion rupees last week, narrowly surpassing Jefferies'
estimate of 42 billion rupees
** Meanwhile Prestige Estates Projects' PREG.NS Q4 sales
rose 21% at 47.07 billion rupees
** Expect dip in pre-sales for Prestige due to muted new
launches, says Jefferies; PREG drops 1%
(Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in Bengaluru)
((Hritam.Mukherjee@thomsonreuters.com;))