new delhi housing sales gained traction by 12 per cent during julyseptember to 54721 units in nine major cities as against the yearago period according to a report by online real estate portal proptiger sales however fell by 1 per cent from 55500 units in the previous quarter in nine cities mumbai kolkata chennai hyderabad bengaluru ahmedabad gurgaon noida and pune mumbai pune and bengaluru contributed around 57 per cent of total sales in the second quarter of this fiscal prices have remained rangebound across the cities except hyderabad with 11 per cent annual appreciation news corp backed proptiger said in its report realty decoded housing prices fell in gurgaon and noida by 2 per cent and 4 per cent respectively it added the report also highlighted that developers across the top nine cities of india have been reluctant to reduce residential prices and have instead been offering deferred and flexible payment schemes to bring in buyers the market seems to be finding its base with sales hovering at around the 55000unit range for the past two quarters said anurag jhanwar business head consulting and data insights proptigercom and makaancom the increased focus of developers on execution and new launches mostly happening with prior approvals are expected to bring fencesitters into the market he added with incentives such as spot discounts flexible payment plans waiver of registration stamp duty and other charges to free whitegoods gold coins and luxury cars buyers across the country have multiple choices this festive season jhanwar said the inventory overhang remained unchanged at 35 months indicating that demand is moving in tandem with supply unsold inventory across the top nine cities declined barring ahmedabad kolkata and pune proptigercom is funded by news corp saif partners accel partners and horizon ventures with acquisition of brands such as makaancom and oobi the company is offering full services from online search to assistance with transactions since its inception proptigercom said it has sold homes worth rs 10000 crore to more than 15000 customers