gandhinagar its hard to miss that smile on the faces of realtors these days festive season and a bull run on the bourses have resulted in a sudden spurt of property deals in the state the impending increase in jantri rates which would make deals more expensive is seen as another triggersale deeds have shot up by 52 yearonyear in september from 41600 to 63200 in value terms coffers have collected rs 267 crore as stamp duty a yoy increase of 60 in september 08 the collections stood at rs 155 crorestamp duty collection was lagging behind till august 2009 but no more said a senior official in finance department stamp duty collection which reflects the actual state of real estate activity was rs 770 crore till august 2008 in fiscal 200809 the collections stood at rs 740 crore for the corresponding period this fiscal a fall of 4 but with a record registrations in september the total collections have reached rs 986 crore or a rise of 68 over previous years total of rs 923 croresurat has glittered the most when it came to property transactions registrations have nearly doubled the upswing in textile and diamond businesses have prompted buying many have ploughed their stock market earnings into realty said tarun rawal president of surat builders association ahmedabad follows with nearly 60 per cent rise there has been a particularly sharp rise in real estate activity in areas next to bopal and odhav in ahmedabad in surat activity was very high in udhna area the official said market sources say the trend is likely to continue in october the government has been forced to deploy additional manpower to deal with the workload especially in some offices in ahmedabad and surat the official said