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Notified, & Real. Circle rates, the calculator, and what South Delhi actually trades at

The rates in force are still the notification of 20 September 2014 — unrevised for over eleven years. This page carries all 115 notified colonies, a calculator that gets builder floors right when every other calculator gets them wrong, the rate history back to 2007, and the gap between the government’s number and the market’s. Maintained by a firm that has worked these streets since 1984.
The one number every Delhi deal turns on

The government says a colony is worth one number.
The market has never agreed.

A circle rate is the minimum value at which a property may be registered in Delhi. Stamp duty is charged on the higher of your actual price or the circle-rate value — never the lower. It is a floor, not a valuation, and it has not moved since 2014.

Two things are true at once, and almost every page on the internet gets at least one of them wrong. The 20% pandemic rebate is gone — it was withdrawn with effect from 1 July 2022, not December 2025, whatever the portals still tell you. And the revision is coming but has not been notified. Below: the live rates, a calculator built on the actual notification, and the part nobody publishes — what these colonies really change hands for.

01

Part One

Find your colony.

115 colonies
Every notified Delhi colony, its MCD category, and what that category costs. Type the name — short forms work. GK-1, CR Park, NFC, Safdarjung all resolve.
Colony Rate LookupNotified 20 Sep 2014

CATEGORY A

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Land · per sq metre—
Land · per sq yard (gaj)—
Land · per sq foot—
Min. construction · per sq m—
This is the minimum registration value of the land, not its market price. For a built property you must add the cost of construction — use the calculator. For what this colony actually trades at, see the market table.
02

Part Two

What you will actually pay.

Live
Delhi thinks in gaj. Brokers quote square feet. The government publishes in square metres. This calculator takes all three. It applies the 2014 notification as written — land rate, cost of construction, age factor — and returns the minimum registration value and the duty payable on it.
The builder-floor correction. Buying one floor of an independent property is not the same as buying the plot, and the Sub-Registrar has a specific formula for it. On the registration form he fills in a field called “Share in Plot transferred” — an undivided percentage, stated in your deed — and values the land as land rate × share × plot area. Construction is then charged on the covered area of your portion alone, times the age factor.

Almost every calculator on the internet ignores the share and applies the whole plot to a single floor. On the registered deeds we have worked from, that overstates the circle value by two to three times, and the duty with it. Select Builder floor below, enter your share, and this one does it the way the registry does it.

Circle Rate & Stamp Duty CalculatorDelhi · 2026










Land component—
Construction component—
Minimum registration value (the floor)—
Price you are paying—
Duty is charged on the higher—
Stamp duty —
Corporation (transfer) duty —
Total stamps —
Registration fee (1%)—
Copying fee + registration extrasRs 164
Total payable at the Sub-Registrar—
Read this before you rely on it. This calculator applies the notified minimum rates. It is an estimate of the floor, not a valuation and not a quotation. Duty is payable on the higher of your actual consideration and this figure — so if you are paying above circle rate, and in South Delhi you almost certainly are, your duty is calculated on what you actually pay. Basements, mezzanines, service areas, terrace rights and unauthorised construction all change the answer. Confirm with the Sub-Registrar or your counsel before you commit money.
Why our rate card does not match the other websites. Every property portal in India publishes 6% for men, 4% for women and 5% for joint ownership. We do not believe those figures are current.

On a Delhi e-Stamp certificate issued in June 2026 that we have examined, a property bought jointly by a man and a woman was charged 6% — not 5%. If joint is 6%, the male rate cannot also be 6%, because joint buyers would then get no concession at all. The rates in this calculator are the ones we see applied at the Sub-Registrar.

The difference is not small. On a Rs 4 crore purchase, the gap between the published 5% and the 6% actually charged is Rs 4,00,000. Budget for ours, and confirm the rate on the day you buy your e-stamp. If you find it applied differently, tell us and we will publish the correction.

03

Part Three

The notification, in full.

20 Sep 2014
The rates in force were notified on 20 September 2014 and took effect on 23 September 2014. They have not been revised in over eleven years. Everything below is the notification as written — land, construction, age, flats.
Checked, not assumed. We last verified these rates against the notification in force on 12 July 2026. A first-in-a-decade revision has been under review since June 2025 — an A+ category above the current top band, and material increases in the middle categories have both been reported — but no revised notification has been issued. Until one is, the 2014 rates on this page are the rates your Sub-Registrar will apply. We re-check this page rather than let it quietly go stale.

Residential land

The headline table. The government publishes per square metre; South Delhi trades in gaj. Both are below.
Category Per sq metre Per sq yard (gaj) Per sq foot
A Rs 7,74,000 Rs 6,47,163 Rs 71,907
B Rs 2,45,520 Rs 2,05,286 Rs 22,810
C Rs 1,59,840 Rs 1,33,647 Rs 14,850
D Rs 1,27,680 Rs 1,06,757 Rs 11,862
E Rs 70,080 Rs 58,596 Rs 6,511
F Rs 56,640 Rs 47,358 Rs 5,262
G Rs 46,200 Rs 38,629 Rs 4,292
H Rs 23,280 Rs 19,465 Rs 2,163
Other uses. Multiply the residential land rate by 3 for commercial, 2 for industrial, and 2 for public utility (private school, college, hospital). A Category C plot at Rs 1,59,840 per sq m registers at Rs 4,79,520 per sq m if it is put to commercial use.

Minimum cost of construction

Added to the land value for any built property. This is the component most quick calculators drop entirely.
Category Residential · per sq m Commercial · per sq m
A Rs 21,960 Rs 25,200
B Rs 17,400 Rs 19,920
C Rs 13,920 Rs 15,960
D Rs 11,160 Rs 12,840
E Rs 9,360 Rs 10,800
F Rs 8,220 Rs 9,480
G Rs 6,960 Rs 8,040
H Rs 3,480 Rs 3,960

Age of the structure

The construction cost is depreciated by the year the building was completed. The land is not.
Year of completion Multiplying factor
Before 1960 0.5
1960 – 69 0.6
1970 – 79 0.7
1980 – 89 0.8
1990 – 2000 0.9
2000 onwards 1.0
In colonies of category G and H a further structure factor applies to the cost of construction: Pucca 1.0, Semi-Pucca 0.75, Katcha 0.5.

Built-up flats

A flat in a DDA colony, a co-operative or a group housing society is valued on a single built-up rate per square metre of plinth — land included, no separate land component. It varies by the size of the flat, not by the colony category.
Plinth area of flat Residential · per sq m Commercial · per sq m If private colony
Up to 30 sq m Rs 50,400 Rs 57,840 × 1.1
Above 30 up to 50 sq m Rs 54,480 Rs 62,520 × 1.15
Above 50 up to 100 sq m Rs 66,240 Rs 75,960 × 1.2
Above 100 sq m Rs 76,200 Rs 87,360 × 1.25
More than four storeys
Uniform rate, any size		 Rs 87,840 Rs 1,00,800 × 1.25
And the rule nobody prints. The notification carries a closing note that decides the answer for most of South Delhi: where part of the plinth area — say one floor — of an independent property other than a flat is sold, the minimum land cost is taken for the proportionate plinth area sold, and the cost of construction is applied to the plinth area sold. That is the builder floor. It is not a flat, and it is not the whole house. The calculator handles it.
04

Part Four

Delhi says these colonies
are worth the same.

17 colonies
Category A is one flat rate — the same number for Golf Links and for New Friends Colony. Category B is one flat rate — the same number for Defence Colony and for Safdarjung Enclave. The rate has not moved since 2014. The market has.

Below are the ranges we observe being discussed in the market, colony by colony, set against the notified rate. Every one of the ten Category B colonies listed trades above at least one Category A colony. The ladder is not merely imprecise. In places it is inverted.

Colony Cat Circle rate (Rs/sq yd) Observed band (Rs/sq yd) Gap
Golf Links A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 18,00,000 – 22,00,000 3.1×
Anand LokOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 14,00,000 – 16,00,000 7.3×
Defence ColonyOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 13,00,000 – 15,00,000 6.8×
Nizamuddin EastOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 13,00,000 – 15,00,000 6.8×
Shanti Niketan A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 12,00,000 – 14,00,000 2.0×
Sunder Nagar A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 12,00,000 – 14,00,000 2.0×
Gulmohar ParkOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 12,00,000 – 13,00,000 6.1×
Vasant Vihar A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 11,00,000 – 13,00,000 1.9×
Anand Niketan A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 11,00,000 – 12,00,000 1.8×
Maharani Bagh A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 9,00,000 – 11,00,000 1.5×
Panchsheel Park A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 9,00,000 – 11,00,000 1.5×
Green ParkOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 9,00,000 – 10,00,000 4.6×
Greater Kailash-IOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 4.4×
Greater Kailash-IIOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 4.4×
Hauz KhasOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 4.4×
Safdarjung EnclaveOutsells Cat A B Rs 2,05,286 Rs 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 4.4×
New Friends Colony A Rs 6,47,163 Rs 7,00,000 – 8,00,000 1.2×
Indicative observations only. Not transactions, not valuations, not advice. These bands are our broad, approximate impression of ranges being discussed in the market at the time of writing. They are not transactions SouthDelhiFloors has handled, brokered, witnessed or verified; not registered, audited or sourced data; and not a valuation of any property. What any given plot fetches turns entirely on that plot. Read the full disclosure below before relying on a single figure here.
Anand Lok — 7.3×Category B. The widest gap we observe in South Delhi. On these bands it sits above six of the seven Category A colonies in the table — while the government values it at a third of them.
New Friends Colony — 1.2×Category A, yet observed close to its circle rate — the narrowest gap on the list. In 2025 a group of its residents petitioned to be downgraded to Category B. The number found that before we did.
2.7× inside one categoryThe spread we observe within “identical” Category A — Golf Links against New Friends Colony. The government’s book cannot see the difference. A buyer can.
Full disclosure · please read

What these numbers are, and what they are not.

They are opinion, not fact. The bands on this page are a broad, approximate, general impression of price ranges being discussed in the South Delhi market around the time of writing. They are published for general information and commentary only.

  • They are not transactions SouthDelhiFloors has handled, brokered, witnessed, verified or been party to.
  • They are not drawn from registered instruments, audited records, or any dataset of completed sales.
  • They are not a valuation, an appraisal, a quotation, an offer, or an invitation to treat, and they must not be relied upon as one.
  • They are not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.
  • They may be wrong, stale, or inapplicable to your property. Prices turn on the specific plot — its size, road width, orientation, floor, condition, title, encumbrances, sanction status and the motivation of the parties on the day.

On registration and stamp duty. The circle rate is the statutory minimum registration value. Duty is payable on the higher of the actual consideration and the circle-rate value. SouthDelhiFloors does not participate in, advise on, or facilitate under-declared consideration in any registration, in any transaction, for any client, in any circumstance. Nothing on this page is an invitation, encouragement or basis to register a property at less than the true price paid. The gap between a circle rate and a market price is a fact about an unrevised government notification. It is not a suggestion about what should be written in a sale deed. Delhi is actively enforcing Section 47-A of the Indian Stamp Act against undervaluation, and the consequences fall on the parties to the instrument.

No liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SouthDelhiFloors, its principals, employees and agents accept no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, arising from any reliance placed on the bands, ratios, tables, calculators or commentary on this page. Verify every figure independently with the Sub-Registrar, a registered valuer and your own legal counsel before you commit money.

If you want a considered view on a specific property, ask us about that property. That is a conversation, not a table.

05

Part Five

The rebate is gone.
Most websites still say otherwise.

Corrected
If you read anywhere that Delhi’s 20% circle-rate rebate ran until December 2025, that is wrong. It was withdrawn with effect from 1 July 2022. Every Delhi transaction since that date has registered at the full, unrebated circle rate. We have checked this against the Revenue Department’s own order and contemporaneous reporting. Several large property portals were still publishing the December 2025 date at the time of writing.
The rebate was a pandemic measure and it had a short, well-documented life:
When What happened
February 2021 Delhi cuts circle rates by 20% across every category, to restart a frozen market. Duty is charged on 80% of the notified rate.
30 Sep 2021 Due to lapse. Extended.
31 Dec 2021 Extended again, into the Omicron wave.
30 Jun 2022 Final expiry.
1 July 2022 Rebate withdrawn. The Revenue Department is explicit: the circle rates notified on 20 September 2014 apply from 1 July. The full rate is back and has stayed.
Why it matters to your budget. On a Rs 1 crore circle-rate valuation, the rebate was worth roughly Rs 1,20,000 to a male buyer and Rs 80,000 to a female buyer in stamp duty alone. If you have been budgeting off a page that thinks the rebate is still alive, you are short by that much before you start.

And the revision that is actually coming

What is live is a review. In June 2025 the Delhi government constituted a committee to revise the circle rates for the first time in a decade. The proposals reported include widening the A-to-H ladder, introducing an A+ category above the current top band, and raising rates materially.

It has not been notified. Until it is, the 2014 rates on this page are the rates that apply. If you are transacting in the next few months, do one thing: check the notified rate on the day you register, not the rate you remember, and not the rate on a page that has not been touched since 2016. We update this one.

06

Part Six

They are looking at
your basement.

Oct 2025
This is the most actionable thing on this page, and almost nobody is covering it. On 13 October 2025 the Office of the Divisional Commissioner, Stamp and Registration Branch, Government of NCT of Delhi issued a circular (No. F.1/998/REGN.BR./DIV.COMM./HQ/1413325) directing every Sub-Registrar in Delhi to strictly enforce Section 47-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 and the Delhi Stamp (Prevention of Undervaluation of Instruments) Rules, 2007. It implements the Delhi High Court’s directions in Amit Gupta and Others v. Ms Manisha Saxena and Others, W.P.(C) 3591/2014.
The circular names two failures by name, and both of them land squarely on the South Delhi builder floor:
Built-up area, not plinthDuty was being computed on the maximum permissible plinth area instead of the actual built-up area. Where a floor is bigger than the sanctioned envelope, the difference was going unvalued and unstamped.
BasementsThe circular calls out the undervaluation of basement portions specifically. A basement that is sold, used and paid for, but not valued in the deed, is exactly what the Collector has now been told to look for.
Three years to actThe Collector may act on a reference or of his own motion, and the window runs to three years from registration. A clean-looking registry today is not a closed matter tomorrow.

What actually happens now

Under the circular the Sub-Registrar no longer simply refuses a document. The sequence is:

One. If the declared consideration is below the circle-rate valuation, the parties are told, and given the chance to amend the instrument and pay the correct duty.

Two. If they do not, the document is still registered — with an endorsement — and forwarded to the Collector of Stamps under Section 47-A.

Three. The Collector holds an enquiry, hears the parties, determines the market value, and recovers the deficient duty. An appeal lies to the District Judge within thirty days.

The trap in that sequence is the second step. Your deed is registered. You walk out believing the matter is closed. It is not.

And note what the courts have said about the circle rate itself. In CTA Apparels (Delhi High Court, 31 January 2020) the Court held that a circle rate is not conclusive evidence of value — it is guidance to the registering officer, and where a dispute arises the Collector must determine the true market value under Section 47-A on the facts: plot size, road width, age, the use of adjacent property, and so on. That cuts both ways. It means the circle rate is not an automatic safe harbour. It also means a Collector cannot simply impose a number without an enquiry.
Our position, stated plainly. SouthDelhiFloors registers at the true consideration. We do not advise on, arrange, or participate in under-declared registrations — not for a client, not for a counterparty, not to close a deal. If a transaction only works when the deed does not say what was paid, it is not a transaction we will run. That has been the position since 1984 and the October 2025 circular changes nothing about it, except to make the cost of the alternative a great deal more obvious.
07

Part Seven

Every Delhi circle rate
since 2007.

Archive
Delhi had no circle rates at all before 18 July 2007. Until then a buyer and seller could declare very nearly whatever they liked. The rates were introduced under the Delhi Stamp (Prevention of Undervaluation of Instruments) Rules, 2007, and then moved five times in seven years — and not once since.

This matters for more than history. If you are computing capital gains on an old purchase, reconstructing a chain of title, or arguing a valuation, you need the rate that was in force on the date of the instrument — not today’s. We have carried this table since 2016. It is here in full.

Circle rate by category, 2007 to today








0 0 0 0 0 2007 2011 2014 2018 2022 2026 Rs per sq metre of residential land 11 years · no revision

18 Jul 2007—
23 Sep 2014—
Rise in 7 years—
Revisions sinceNone
Switch category to see how differently Delhi treated its colonies. Category A rose 18-fold between 2007 and 2014. Category H rose 3.4-fold. The government did not simply raise rates — it widened the ladder enormously, and then stopped. Every figure is the notified minimum rate for residential land, per square metre.
In force A B C D E F G H
18 Jul 2007 – 07 Feb 2011 43,000 34,100 27,300 21,800 18,400 16,100 13,700 6,900
08 Feb 2011 – 15 Nov 2011 86,000 68,200 54,600 43,600 36,800 32,200 27,400 13,800
16 Nov 2011 – 04 Dec 2012 2,15,000 1,36,400 1,09,200 87,200 47,840 38,640 31,510 15,870
05 Dec 2012 – 22 Sep 2014 6,45,000 2,04,600 1,33,224 1,06,384 58,365 47,140 38,442 19,361
23 Sep 2014 – today 7,74,000 2,45,520 1,59,840 1,27,680 70,080 56,640 46,200 23,280
All figures in rupees per square metre of residential land. Category A has gone from Rs 43,000 to Rs 7,74,000 per sq m in seven years — eighteen-fold — and then stood perfectly still for eleven. That is the whole story of this page in one line.
The Archive

Every notification, as a PDF.

The rate that matters is the one in force on the date of your instrument — not today’s. Each sheet below carries the category rates for its period and the statutory basis, and each is checked against the table above. Nobody else keeps these in one place. That is the point.


Start here · 3 pages
Delhi Circle Rates 2026 — The Complete Guide
Land, construction and flat rates for every category. Stamp duty. The colony list. Every revision since 2007, in one document.
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Reference
Colony categories, A to H
Which category your colony sits in, and what that costs you.
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In force today
23 Sep 2014 — present
Notified 20 September 2014. Unrevised for over eleven years. This is the one your Sub-Registrar will apply.
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Superseded
05 Dec 2012 — 22 Sep 2014
The revision that took Category A past six lakh a square metre.
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Superseded
16 Nov 2011 — 04 Dec 2012
The second revision of 2011, nine months after the first.
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Superseded
08 Feb 2011 — 15 Nov 2011
Rates doubled across every category, in one stroke.
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The beginning
18 Jul 2007 — 07 Feb 2011
The first circle rates Delhi ever had. Category A: Rs 43,000 per sq m.
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What these are, and what they are not. The seven sheets above are our compilations — the notified category rates for each period, set out cleanly and cited to the Delhi Stamp (Prevention of Undervaluation of Instruments) Rules, 2007. They are not the government’s own documents. The original South Delhi notification we have carried since 2016 is here. Before you budget duty, confirm the applicable rate with the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar — on the day.
08

Part Eight

The questions people
actually ask.

14 answers
14 questions
01What is a circle rate in Delhi?
The minimum value at which a property may be registered. Delhi divides every colony into a category from A (highest) to H (lowest), and each category carries a notified rate per square metre of land. Stamp duty is charged on the higher of your actual price or the circle-rate value. It is a floor for the tax, not an estimate of what the property is worth.
02What is the circle rate in Delhi right now?
The rates in force are those notified on 20 September 2014, effective 23 September 2014, and they have not been revised in over eleven years. Residential land runs from Rs 7,74,000 per sq metre in Category A down to Rs 23,280 in Category H. Per square yard that is Rs 6,47,163 and Rs 19,465. A first-in-a-decade revision is under review but has not been notified.
03Is the 20% circle rate rebate still available in Delhi?
No. The 20% rebate ran from February 2021, was extended twice, and was withdrawn with effect from 1 July 2022. Many websites still state it ran until December 2025 — that is incorrect. The Revenue Department was explicit that the rates notified on 20 September 2014 apply from 1 July 2022, and every transaction since has registered at the full, unrebated rate.
04What is the circle rate per square yard, or per gaj?
The government publishes per square metre, but Delhi trades in gaj. One square yard is 0.8361 sq metres, and one gaj is nine square feet. Converted: Category A is Rs 6,47,163 per sq yard, Category B Rs 2,05,286, Category C Rs 1,33,647 and Category D Rs 1,06,757. The calculator on this page accepts gaj, square feet or square metres and does the conversion for you.
05How is the circle rate of a builder floor calculated?
This is where nearly every calculator on the internet goes wrong. A builder floor is not a flat and it is not the whole house. The notification says that where part of the plinth area — say one floor — of an independent property is sold, the land cost is taken on the proportionate plinth area sold, and the construction cost is applied to the plinth area sold. So one floor of four does not carry the whole plot value; it carries its share. Calculators that apply the full plot rate to a single floor overstate the circle value badly. Ours does not.
06How is stamp duty calculated in Delhi?
On the higher of your actual consideration or the circle-rate value. In most of Delhi the rate is 7% for a male buyer, 5% for a female buyer and 6% for a couple buying jointly. The e-stamp splits that figure in two: stamp duty and corporation (transfer) duty. On a Rs 1 crore purchase a man pays Rs 7,00,000 in stamps, a woman Rs 5,00,000 and a couple Rs 6,00,000. On top of it sits a registration fee of 1% of the value – plus Rs 164 at the counter: Rs 100 copying fee and Rs 64 over the 1%, as on a Sub-Registrar receipt for a Rs 10 crore sale in August 2026. MCD mutation is separate. NDMC areas run at roughly 5.5% and 3.5%; Delhi Cantonment at a flat 3%. Sources differ on the NDMC and Cantonment rates, so confirm them with the sub-registrar. If you are paying above circle rate — and in South Delhi you almost certainly are — the duty is on what you actually pay.
07Does registering in a woman’s name really save stamp duty?
Yes — 5% instead of 7%, and 6% on a joint purchase. At South Delhi ticket sizes that is real money, and it is a legitimate and widely used structure. The property should genuinely be intended for her ownership; the duty saving is a benefit of the structure, not a disguise for something else.
08Why is the market rate so much higher than the circle rate?
Because the circle rate is a single flat number for an entire category and has not moved since 2014, while the market prices each street individually and has moved a great deal. Category A is one rate for Golf Links and for New Friends Colony alike. On the bands we observe, the gap across South Delhi runs from roughly 1.2 times to over 7 times, and several Category B colonies appear to trade above Category A colonies. Those are indicative observations, not valuations — see the disclosure on this page. To compare market land rates colony by colony, open our South Delhi colony map with land rates.
09Can I register a property below the circle rate in Delhi?
No. The circle rate is the statutory minimum. If the declared consideration is below it, the Sub-Registrar must tell you, give you the chance to amend and pay the correct duty, and if you do not, register the document with an endorsement and forward it to the Collector of Stamps under Section 47-A. The Collector then determines market value and recovers the shortfall. He can act for up to three years.
10What happened in October 2025 with Section 47-A?
On 13 October 2025 the Divisional Commissioner’s office issued a circular directing every Delhi Sub-Registrar to strictly enforce Section 47-A, implementing the Delhi High Court’s directions in Amit Gupta v. Manisha Saxena. It calls out two specific failures: duty being computed on the maximum permissible plinth area instead of the actual built-up area, and the undervaluation of basement portions. If you are buying a South Delhi builder floor with a basement, that circular is about you.
11Is the circle rate the same as the market value for tax purposes?
Not necessarily, and the Delhi High Court has said so. In CTA Apparels (2020) the Court held that a circle rate is guidance to the registering officer and not conclusive evidence of value; where a dispute arises, the Collector must determine actual market value on the facts of the property. Separately, under the Income-tax Act a large gap between the stated consideration and the stamp-duty value can itself create a tax charge on both buyer and seller. Take advice before you assume the circle rate settles anything.
12My colony is not on the notified list. What rate applies?
Form A of the Delhi Stamp (Prevention of Undervaluation of Instruments) Rules, 2007 allows the category of the nearest comparable notified colony to be applied. In practice the Sub-Registrar decides. Confirm the applicable category with the jurisdictional Sub-Registrar before you budget the duty, not on the day.
13Does the age of the building change the circle rate?
It changes the construction component, not the land. The cost of construction is multiplied by an age factor — 1.0 for anything completed from 2000 onwards, down to 0.5 for a structure built before 1960. The land value is unaffected by age. On an old South Delhi house on a valuable plot, the land dominates and the age factor barely moves the total.
14When will Delhi revise its circle rates?
Unknown, and be careful of anyone who tells you otherwise. A committee was constituted in June 2025 to revise the rates for the first time in a decade, and the reported proposals include an A+ category above the current top band and material increases. As of the date on this page no revised notification has been issued, and the 2014 rates apply. Check the notified rate on the day you register.
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A price is a judgement.

This page will tell you the floor. For what homes actually sell for, see property rates in South Delhi, colony by colony. It will not tell you what your floor in Panchsheel Park is worth on a Tuesday in July, because no table can. That takes someone who has stood in the room. We have been standing in these rooms for forty years.

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